STEPHEN STILLS : CARRY ON

Disc One (76:11)

1. Travelin'
2. High Flyin' Bird (The Aug Go-Go Singers)
3. Sit Down I Think I Love You (Buffalo Springfield)
4. Go and Say Goodbye (Buffalo Springfield)
5. For What It's Worth (Buffalo Springfield)
6. Everydays (Buffalo Springfield)
7. Pretty Girl Why (Buffalo Springfield)
8. Bluebird (Buffalo Springfield)
9. Rock 'n' Roll Woman (Buffalo Springfield)
10. Special Care (Buffalo Springfield)
11. Questions (Buffalo Springfield)
12. Uno Mundo (Buffalo Springfield)
13. Four Days Gone (Buffalo Springfield)
14. Who Ran Away?
15. Forty-Nine Reasons
16. Helplessly Hoping (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
17. You Don't Have To Cry (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
18. Suite: Judy Blue Eyes (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
19. 4+20 (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
20. So Begins the Task (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
21. The Lee Shore (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
22. Carry on / Questions (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
23. Woodstock (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)

Disc Two (63:06)

1. Love The One You're With
2. Old Times Good Times
3. Black Queen
4. No-Name Jam (Stephen Stills & Jimi Hendrix)
5. Go Back Home
6. Marianne
7. My Love Is A Gentle Thing
8. Fishes And Scorpions
9. The Treasure
10. To a Flame
11. Cherokee
12. Song Of Love
13. Rock 'n' Roll Crazies / Cuban Bluegrass
14. Jet Set (Sigh)
15. It Doesn't Matter
16. Colorado
17. Johnny's Garden
18. Change Partners
19. Do For Others (Stephen Stills & Steve Fromholz)
20. Find The Cost Of Freedom (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
21. Little Miss Bright Eyes
22. Isn't It About Time

Disc Three (76:11)

1. Turn Back The Pages
2. First Things First
3. My Angel
4. Love Story
5. As I Come Of Age
6. Know You Got To Run
7. Black Coral (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
8. I Give You Give Blind (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
9. Crossroads/You Can't Catch Me
10. See The Changes (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
11. Thoroughfare Gap
12. Lowdown
13. Cuba Al Fin
14. Dear Mr. Fantasy (Stephen Stills & Graham Nash)
15. Spanish Suite
16. Feel Your Love (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
17. Raise A Voice (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
18. Daylight Again (Crosby, Stills & Nash)

Disc Four (63:06)

1. Southern Cross (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
2. Dark Star (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
3. Turn Your Back On Love (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
4. War Games (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
5. 50/50
6. Welfare Blues
7. Church (Part Of Someone)
8. I Don't Get It
9. Isn't It So
10. Haven't We Lost Enough? (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
11. Ballad Of Hollis Brown
12. Treetop Flyer
13. Heart's Gate
14. Girl from the North Country (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
15. Feed the People
16. Panama (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
17. No Tears Left (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
18. Ole Man Trouble (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
19. Ain't It Always

Label : Rhino

Release Year : 2013

Review : Carry On is a four-CD set, spanning 50 years and includes more than five hours of music and includes a 113 page booklet. Produced by Graham Nash and Joel Bernstein with Stephen Stills, Rhino s anthology spotlights the remarkable scope of Stills career with essential recordings, live cuts, new mixes, and 25 previously unreleased tracks. The tracks unfold mostly in chronological order, and the anthology leads off with its oldest entry: "Travelin " a previously unreleased recording that Stills made at age 17 in Costa Rica (one of the many places he lived growing up in a military family). The youngest track, recorded only a few months ago, features CSN performing "Girl From The North Country" in New York City during a sold-out five-night run at the Beacon Theater that closed the group s acclaimed 2012 world tour. Carry On, which features a 113-page booklet with rare photos and extensive liner notes by Michael O Hara Garcia, David Bender, and NY Times Best Selling author Daniel Levitin, will be available as a 4-CD boxed set on March 26 from Rhino. In addition to essential studio and live recordings, Carry On covers new ground with more than an hour s worth of previously unreleased material including "No-Name Jam, " a 1970 recording of Stills in London trading guitar licks with his friend Jimi Hendrix. Other previously unissued highlights include the songs "Welfare Blues" (1984), "Little Miss Bright Eyes" (1973), and "Who Ran Away? " (1968), and early demo versions of "Forty-Nine Reasons" and "The Lee Shore, " and "Black Coral, " a song Stills and Young released as a duo in 1976 the version here features all four members of CSNY. "The Treasure" offers a peek into Stills process originally released in 1973 on Manassas s self-titled debut, this version was recorded by Stills three years earlier with bassist Calvin Samuels and drummer Conrad Isidore during sessions for Stephen Stills 2. Carry On also features a number of classic songs newly remixed by Nash and Stanley Tajima Johnston, including "Everydays, " "To A Flame, " "See The Changes, " "4+20" and "Change Partners, " the latter with Jerry Garcia on pedal steel guitar. There is also a newly edited version of Stills performing "Cuba Al Fin" at the Havana Jam in 1979. Several songs make their CD-debut, including "Uno Mundo, " "War Games" and the single mix of "Love The One You re With. " Stills time on stage is represented as well with a number of previously released performances, including several from his acclaimed 2005 album Man Alive. The collection boasts new live tracks, including CSN singing "No Tears Left" in 1997 at the Fillmore in San Francisco, and CSNY on stage in 2002 at Madison Square Garden with Memphis Horns Booker T. Jones and Donald "Duck" Dunn covering Otis Redding s "Ole Man Trouble. " Other famous players turn up on Carry On's wealth of material as well, including Herbie Hancock, Eric Clapton, Maynard Ferguson, Ray Baretto, Willie Bobo, and Larry Harlow. The last of Crosby, Stills & Nash to receive his own multi-disc career retrospective, Stephen Stills is rewarded for his long wait with Carry On, the best of these box sets. Spanning four discs - one CD longer than the either the 2006 David Crosby or 2009 Graham Nash boxes - Carry On follows a pattern familiar from those Crosby and Nash sets, balancing unreleased material with all the big hits, deep cuts, and some alternate mixes, but where this set excels is in painting a full, robust portrait of Stills as a songwriter, guitarist, and musical wanderer, chronicling his peaks and valleys without lingering too long on the latter. Certainly, what lasts is Stills' restlessness, how he was grounded in folk - the first cut here finds a teenage Stills alone with his acoustic guitar, essaying "Travelin'," not knowing that its restlessness would echo throughout his life - but also found solace in blues and rock & roll, taking extended guitar sojourns either accompanied by Neil Young in Buffalo Springfield or Jimi Hendrix on his own (the unreleased "No-Name Jam" that pops up on the second disc). Often, Stills' skills as a guitarist are underappreciated - a byproduct of being a cornerstone of perhaps the biggest folk-rock trio of its time - but his virtuosity is present throughout Carry On, as are his hippie leanings and his almost imperceptible but persistent desire to follow the trends of the time. As the set progresses, Stills follows almost every production of his time, surrounding himself with funky fusion players in the early '70s and eagerly succumbing to glistening synths in the '80s. His passion for Latin music is accentuated - it's there as early as "Uno Mundo" in Buffalo Springfield - but so is his restless, searching spirit, a hunger that is somewhat dampened by the polished productions of the '80s and '90s, where the sparkle of synthesizers obscures the songs. Nevertheless, Stills' acceptance of the precision production of the '80s and '90s is an important part of his story, and it's possible to hear this box as a brief unintentional history of his time, as he abandons the earth and dirt of Buffalo Springfield and early CSN(&Y) for a slicker, softer sound. But that's part of what makes Carry On so fascinating: you can hear Stills slipping into an oddly crowd-pleasing mentality yet he still relies on the folk, blues, and rock that have always anchored him, so he never sounds like he's selling out; he's merely adapting to the times. And by not ignoring these flaws, Carry On winds up as a rousing, moving testament to a singer/songwriter/guitarist who often doesn't get the credit he's due.