Stevens hit his stride on his fourth album, a collection of songs about spiritual quests delivered in an earnest voice and folk-rock shadings. It was a turn in direction from the baroque pop of his earlier work, and Stevens continued down this path on a series of similarly themed records....
songs pouring out, his voice powerful, his guitar playing as good as any of his peers – and better than a lot of them. And live – well the record shows how good he was live at that point. Today’s song is Stills’ biggest solo hit recorded Live at Berkley in 1971, and is taken...
Stephen Stills has written a rather sizeable number of quality songs over his many years in music. A few years back I began to notice the music from some of these songs was being used as background in Television and Radio Commercials. "Love the One You're With" was one song whose melod...
Stills led on his 1970 solo hit “Love the One You’re With.” Stills also brought out “Hung Upside Down,” calling it a “new version” of the old Buffalo Springfield tune that he said dated back “two centuries.” He also sat at the piano as Y...
" Stills said. "My idea was to have an acoustic part first, and then the curtains parted and there was the equipment and we went on to play some rock 'n' roll. We got the reaction, and we got to have all the glorious fun of playing insufferably loud. And, through that, I got...
Stephen Stills talks about discovering tapes of one of CSNY's first shows, his renewed relationship with Neil Young, and the memory of David Crosby.
Stills said, "I find her voice thrilling. It's like discovering a unicorn!" They first met in the late sixties. Stills had just had a big hit with his band Buffalo Springfield. To hear "For What It's Worth" by Buffalo Springfield, click on the video player below: ...
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young had started touring in the summer of '69. Their second gig wasWoodstock. The song "Woodstock" (written by Joni Mitchell) would be the biggest hit off of "Déjà Vu" when it was released in 1970. WoodstockbyCrosby, Stills, Nash & Young...
Raymond, who frequently collaborated with Crosby, has a "singing voice [that] sounds so much like David that it's scary," Stephen Stills said. "I've always had so much fun playing those songs, David's songs. We've got James, and now we can get the chords, which was always a caref...
songs to comparatively longer works with more attention to technical and musical subtleties. Enter the unlikely all-star triumvirate of Al Kooper (piano/organ/ondioline/vocals/guitars), Mike Bloomfield (guitar), and Stephen Stills (guitar) -- all of whom were concurrently "on hiatus" from their...