![]() “Helpless,” the album’s desolate, aching ballad, stands out, as do the underrated “Country Girl” suite and “Everybody I Love You.” This edition of Déjà Vu includes demos, outtakes, and other alternate versions. Neil Young, however, makes his presence felt, whether it’s coaxing stronger performances from Stills or contributing his own rough-hewn guitar lines to the bucolic bliss. Stephen Stills’ influence is noticeably passive, contributing the album’s modest opener “Carry On” and the low-key acoustic “4 + 20.” Stills mostly serves the arrangements with tasteful guitar and harmonies. Joni Mitchell’s “Woodstock” is given the definitive treatment, with scraping guitars and carefully constructed harmonies replacing her gentle piano figures. GOLD RECORD (3/25/70), 7x PLATINUM (11/4/92). Recalling the antiwar sentiment of his band Crosby, Stills, Nash and Youngs music from the Vietnam era, musician Neil Young (using the pseudonym Bernard Shakey) directed this anti-Iraq War. Graham Nash’s “Teach Your Children” and “Our House” express the idealistic and optimistic goals of the late ’60s, while David Crosby’s “Almost Cut My Hair” represents the paranoiac edge from which the drug scene dangled. Deja Vu: Produced by David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash & Neil Young: Released on March 11, 1970: US CHART POSITION 1. Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young’s immensely popular second album, DÉJÀ VU has been newly remastered for this 4CD/1 LP set, and features three discs of outtakes, demos and alternates from the original recording sessions,largely previously unissued. The second album from the folk-rock era’s most successful supergroup (with Neil Young the added attraction), Déjà Vu reflects the sounds and sentiments of the times with a collective acumen, despite the group’s fragile ego balance.
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