Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - 4 Way Street (1971)

"4 Way Street" is the third album by Crosby, Stills & Nash, their second as Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and their first live album.

A document of their tour from the previous year, the live recordings presented were taken from shows at The Fillmore East, New York, June 2–June 7, 1970 The Chicago Auditorium, Chicago, July 5, 1970 and The Forum, Los Angeles, June 26–June 28, 1970.

The album contained material previously available in studio versions, from both the various affiliations and individual work of the four principals. Two songs each by Nash and Crosby had not been officially released by its writer at the time of the arrival of this album in the shops: "Chicago," soon to appear one month later on Nash's Songs for Beginners album, and "Right Between the Eyes"; "The Lee Shore" by Crosby, as well as his controversial ménage à trois "Triad" composition, recorded by Jefferson Airplane on their Crown of Creation album of 1968, and by The Byrds, but not released until 1987 on the compilation "Never Before" and later as a bonus track on The Notorious Byrd Brothers reissue.

Tracklist

Disc 1

01.  Suite: Judy Blue Eyes  (Stephen Stills)  - 0:33

02.  On the Way Home  (Neil Young)  - 3:19

03.  Teach Your Children  (Graham Nash)  - 2:46

04.  Triad  (David Crosby)  - 5:07

05.  The Lee Shore  (Crosby)  - 4:14

06.  Chicago  (Nash)  - 3:03

07.  Right Between the Eyes  (Nash)  - 2:19

08.  Cowgirl in the Sand  (Young)  - 3:50

09.  Don't Let It Bring You Down  (Young)  - 2:35

10.  49 Bye-Byes/For What It's Worth/America's Children  (Stills)  - 5:30

11.  Love the One You're With  (Stills)  - 2:57

Disc 2

01.  Pre-Road Downs  (Nash)  - 2:48

02.  Long Time Gone  (Crosby)  - 5:33

03.  Southern Man  (Young)  - 13:15

04.  Ohio  (Young)  - 3:24

05.  Carry On  (Stills)  - 13:06

06.  Find the Cost of Freedom  (Stills)  - 2:16

Personnel

David Crosby – vocals, guitar

Stephen Stills – vocals, guitar, keyboards

Graham Nash – vocals, guitar, keyboards

Neil Young – vocals, guitar, harmonica, keyboards

Calvin "Fuzzy" Samuels – bass

Johnny Barbata – drums

 

Notes

Released:  April 7, 1971

Recorded:  June 2–July 5, 1970, New York, Chicago & Los Angeles

Genre:  Soft Rock

Length:  76:35

Label:  Atlantic

Producer:  David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, Neil Young

Leonard Cohen - Songs of Love And Hate (1971)

"Songs Of Love And Hate" is Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen's third album. It was mainly recorded in Columbia Studio A in Nashville. "Sing Another Song, Boys" was recorded at the Isle of Wight Festival on August 30, 1970. Further recording took place at Trident Studios in London.

It is one of Leonard Cohen's most emotionally intense albums which, given the nature of Cohen's body of work, is no small statement. While the title Songs of "Love and Hate" sums up the album's themes accurately enough, it's hardly as simple as that description might lead you to expect in these eight songs, "love" encompasses the physical ("Last Year's Man"), the emotional ("Famous Blue Raincoat"), and the spiritual ("Joan of Arc"), and the contempt in songs like "Dress Rehearsal Rag" and "Avalanche" is the sort of venom that can only come from someone who once cared very deeply. The sound of the album is clean and uncluttered, and for the most part the music stays out of the way of the lyrics, which dominate the songs. Thankfully, Cohen had grown noticeably as a singer since his first two albums, and if he hardly boasts a range to rival Roy Orbison here, he is able to bring out the subtleties of "Joan of Arc" and "Famous Blue Raincoat" in a way his previous work would not have led you to expect. And while Bob Johnston's production is spare, it's spare with a purpose, letting Cohen's voice and guitar tell their stories and using other musicians for intelligent, emotionally resonant punctuation (Paul Buckmaster's unobtrusive string arrangements and the use of a children's chorus are especially inspired).

Tracklist

01.  Avalanche  - 5:07

02.  Last Year's Man  - 6:02

03.  Dress Rehearsal Rag  - 6:12

04.  Diamonds in the Mine  - 3:52

05.  Love Calls You by Your Name  - 5:44

06.  Famous Blue Raincoat  - 5:15

07.  Sing Another Song, Boys (Live at the Isle of Wight Festival, August 31, 1970)  - 6:17

08.  Joan of Arc  - 6:29

Personnel

Leonard Cohen - acoustic guitar, vocals

Ron Cornelius - acoustic and electric guitars

Charlie Daniels - acoustic guitar, bass guitar, fiddle

Elkin "Bubba" Fowler - acoustic guitar, banjo, bass guitar

Bob Johnston - piano

Corlynn Hanney - vocals

Susan Mussmano - vocals

The Corona Academy, London - children's voices

Michael Sahl - strings on third verse of "Last Year's Man"

Paul Buckmaster - string and horn arrangements, conductor

Notes
Released:  March 1971

Recorded at:  Columbia Studio A, Nashville

Genre:  Folk, Rock

Length:  44:21

Label:  Columbia

Produced:  Bob Johnston

All songs written by:  Leonard Cohen

Jethro Tull - Aqualung (1971)

"Aqualung" is the fourth studio album by the rock band Jethro Tull. Released in 1971, "Aqualung", despite the band's disapproval, is regarded as a concept album featuring a central theme of "the distinction between religion and God". The album's "dour musings on faith and religion" have marked it as "one of the most cerebral albums ever to reach millions of rock listeners". Aqualung's success marked a turning point in the band's career, with them going on to become a major radio and touring act.

After veering sharply from the blues inluences of their debut, This Was, Jethro Tull's sound quickly coalesced around jazz-tinged English folk influences and the antics of frontman/flautist Ian Anderson. But it was guitarist Martin Barre's swaggering riff off the title track of the band's fourth album that would become Tull's indelibly clichéd trademark and the band's entrée into a long reign as arena-rock perennials. But there's a lot more to Aqualung than the riffage of that cut and its cousins, "Cross-Eyed Mary" and "Locomotive Breath." In an era when pseudo-Christian spirituality was a de rigueur, if cheap, musical commodity (from the overblown operatics of Jesus Christ Superstar to one-hit pop wonders such as "Spirit in the Sky" and "Put Your Hand in the Hand"), Anderson and company openly challenged the value of organized religion with a thematic album savvy enough to layer its thought-provoking lyrics between heavy strata of FM-friendly guitar bedrock.

Tracklist

01.  Aqualung  (Ian Anderson, Jennie Anderson)  - 6:34

02.  Cross-Eyed Mary  (Ian Anderson)  - 4:06

03.  Cheap Day Return  (Ian Anderson)  - 1:21

04.  Mother Goose  (Ian Anderson)  - 3:51

05.  Wond'ring Aloud  (Ian Anderson)  - 1:53

06.  Up to Me  (Ian Anderson)  - 3:15

07.  My God  (Ian Anderson)  - 7:08

08.  Hymn 43  (Ian Anderson)  - 3:14

09.  Slipstream  (Ian Anderson)  - 1:13

10.  Locomotive Breath  (Ian Anderson)  - 4:23

11.  Wind Up  (Ian Anderson)  - 6:01

Personnel

Ian Anderson - vocals, acoustic guitar, flute

Martin Barre - electric guitar, descant recorder

John Evan - piano, organ, mellotron

Jeffrey Hammond - bass guitar, alto recorder and odd voices

Clive Bunker - drums and percussion

Glenn Cornick - bass guitar

David Palmer - orchestral arrangements and conduction

Notes
Released:  19 March 1971

Recorded at:  Island Studios, Basing Street, London

Genre:  Progressive Rock

Length:  42:55

Label:  Chrysalis

Producer:  Ian Anderson, Terry Ellis

The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers (1971)

"Sticky Fingers" is the ninth British and 11th American studio album by English rock band The Rolling Stones, released in April 1971. It is the band's first album of the 1970s and its first release on the band's newly formed label, Rolling Stones Records, after having been contracted since 1963 with Decca Records in the UK and London Records in the US. It is also Mick Taylor's first full-length appearance on a Rolling Stones album, the first Rolling Stones album not to feature any contributions from founding guitarist Brian Jones and the first one on which Mick Jagger is credited with playing guitar. In 2003, Sticky Fingers was listed as #63 on Rolling Stone magazine's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

Pieced together from outtakes and much-labored-over songs, "Sticky Fingers" manages to have a loose, ramshackle ambience that belies both its origins and the dark undercurrents of the songs. It's a weary, drug-laden album well over half the songs explicitly mention drug use, while the others merely allude to it that never fades away, but it barely keeps afloat. Apart from the classic opener, "Brown Sugar" (a gleeful tune about slavery, interracial sex, and lost virginity, not necessarily in that order), the long workout "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" and the mean-spirited "Bitch," "Sticky Fingers" is a slow, bluesy affair, with a few country touches thrown in for good measure. The laid-back tone of the album gives ample room for new lead guitarist Mick Taylor to stretch out, particularly on the extended coda of "Can't You Hear Me Knocking." But the key to the album isn't the instrumental interplay although that is terrific it's the utter weariness of the songs. "Wild Horses" is their first non-ironic stab at a country song, and it is a beautiful, heart-tugging masterpiece. Similarly, "I Got the Blues" is a ravished, late-night classic that ranks among their very best blues. "Sister Morphine" is a horrifying overdose tale, and "Moonlight Mile," with Paul Buckmaster's grandiose strings, is a perfect closure: sad, yearning, drug-addled, and beautiful. With its offhand mixture of decadence, roots music, and outright malevolence, "Sticky Fingers set the tone for the rest of the decade for the Stones.

Tracklist

01.  Brown Sugar  (Jagger, Richards)  - 3:48

02.  Sway  (Jagger, Richards)  - 3:50

03.  Wild Horses  (Jagger, Richards)  - 5:42

04.  Can't You Hear Me Knocking  (Jagger, Richards)  - 7:14

05.  You Gotta Move  (Fred McDowell/Gary Davis)  - 2:32

06.  Bitch  (Jagger, Richards)  - 3:38

07.  I Got the Blues  (Jagger, Richards)  - 3:54

08.  Sister Morphine  (Jagger, Richards, Marianne Faithfull)  - 5:31

09.  Dead Flowers  (Jagger, Richards)  - 4:03

10.  Moonlight Mile  (Jagger, Richards)  - 5:56

Personnel

Mick Jagger – lead vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, percussion

Keith Richards – electric guitar, six and twelve string acoustic guitar, backing vocals

Mick Taylor – electric, acoustic, slide guitar

Charlie Watts – drums

Bill Wyman – bass guitar, electric piano

Bobby Keys – saxophone

Ian Stewart – piano

Nicky Hopkins – piano

Jim Dickinson – piano

Billy Preston – organ

Rocky Dijon – congas

Ry Cooder – slide guitar

Jack Nitzsche – piano

Jim Price – trumpet, piano

Paul Buckmaster – string arrangement

Jimmy Miller – percussion

Notes

Released:  23 April 1971

Recorded at:  Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, Sheffield, Alabama, Olympic Studios, London, UK

Genre:  Rock

Length:  46:25

Label:  Rolling Stones Records

Producer:  Jimmy Miller

Elton John - Friends (Soundtrack) (1971)

"Friends" is a project Elton John and Bernie Taupin took on before their breakout success in the United States. Recorded as the soundtrack to the film Friends.

Two songs are above standard Elton fare: the two full-band numbers. "Honey Roll" and "Can I Put You On" are the only two times that it sounds like Elton bothered to try. I mean, it is a film soundtrack, it's not like he wasn't saving his best stuff for his own albums, so with that in mind it's kind of nice we even got anything good at all. As far as the other selections go, they're all piano + orchestral backing and not terribly interesting. "Seasons" is like if "Burn Down the Mission" lost all its energy and had no rocking ending, and "Michelle's Song" is a drab ballad that would feel right at home on the album "Elton John". The title track was a minor hit but it's as boring and tossed-off as anything Elton wrote in this period, and having the string "Variations" on "Friends" two songs later is totally pointless (but not uncommon when dealing with a film soundtrack). There are a few nice bits happening in "Four Moods".

Tracklist

01.  Friends  (John, Taupin)  - 2:20

02.  Honey Roll  (John, Taupin)  - 3:00

03.  Variations on 'Friends'  - 1:44

04.  Seasons  (John, Taupin)  - 3:57

05.  Variation on Michelle's Song(A Day in the Country)  (John, Taupin)  - 2:44

06.  Can I Put You On  (John, Taupin)  - 5:52

07.  Michelle's Song  (John, Taupin)  - 4:16

08.  I Meant to Do My Work Today (A Day in the Country)  (John, Taupin)  - 1:33

09.  Four Moods  (Buckmaster)  - 10:56

10.  Seasons Reprise  (John, Taupin)  - 1:33

Personnel

Elton John - piano, vocals

Caleb Quaye - guitars

Dee Murray - bass guitar, vocals

Nigel Olsson - drums, vocals

Paul Buckmaster - orchestral arrangement

Rex Morris - saxophone

Madeline Bell, Lesley Duncan, Kay Garner - backing vocals

Notes

Released:  April 1971

Genre:  Pop, Soundtrack

Label:  Paramount

Length:  38:35

Producer:  Gus Dudgeon

Soundtrack - Woodstock Two (1971)

"Woodstock 2" is the second live album released of the 1969 Woodstock Festival concert. This 2-CD set contains more material from many acts featured on the first Woodstock album with additional performances from Mountain and Melanie.

This set featured many of the same artists who'd appeared on the first volume, with two additions: Mountain, and Melanie. If anything, this set, more concise and more focused, is a better bet than its predecessor. Disc one is a stunner on more than one level. First, there are three tracks by Jimi Hendrix and his expanded lineup after breaking up the Experience (adding guitarist Larry Lee), and a trio of percussionists along with Mitch Mitchell and bassist Billy Cox. There's the killer "Jam Back at the House," which rolls in riffs and an instrumental array of tunes from his catalog including "Rainy Day Dream Away"; there's a killer take on "Izabella" that's raggedy but full of killer improvisation check the interaction between Cox and Mitchell  and "Get My Heart Back Together," also known as "Hear My Train A'Comin'." These 20 minutes of music make it worth the purchase of this collection if you don't already possess the Jimi Hendrix Live at Woodstock disc.

Jefferson Airplane is also here with an extra 12 minutes of music. Judging by this contribution and the inclusion of "Volunteers," on volume 1, this ranks as one of their greatest live sets ever issued. They begin "Saturday Afternoon/Won't You Try" with a medley of tunes from After Bathing at Baxter's, issued early on in their career. The vocal performances by Marty Balin, Grace Slick, and Paul Kantner are simply stellar, but Jorma Kaukonen's guitar as a guiding light also really shines here, and it screams on their other selection, "Eskimo Blue Day," from the Volunteers album, even if its basic structure aped Bob Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower." Disc one ends with the Butterfield Blues Band redeeming themselves with Little Walter's "Everything's Gonna Be Alright," after the indulgent debacle of "Love March" on volume one.

Disc Two features a trio of fine cuts by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young including "Marrakesh Express," and a pair from Mountain: the stellar rocker "Blood of the Sun," and the more pastoral "Theme from an Imaginary Western." Canned Heat's 13-minute "Woodstock Boogie" is a bit monotonous, but it's a blast all the same.

Tracklist

Disc 1

01.  Jimi Hendrix - Jam Back at the House  - 7:27

02.  Jimi Hendrix - Izabella  - 5:05

03.  Jimi Hendrix - Get My Heart Back Together Hendrix  - 8:19

04.  Jefferson Airplane - Saturday Afternoon/Won't You Try  - 5:28

05.  Jefferson Airplane - Eskimo Blue Day  - 6:22

06.  The Butterfield Blues Band - Everything's Gonna Be Al Right  - 8:58

Disc 2

01.  Joan Baez - Sweet Sir Galahad  - 3:58

02.  Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Guinnevere  - 5:20

03.  Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - 4 + 20  - 2:22

04.  Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Marrakesh Express  - 2:31

05.  Melanie - My Beautiful People  - 4:03

06.  Melanie - Birthday of the Sun  - 3:35

07.  Mountain - Blood of the Sun  - 3:35

08.  Mountain - Theme for an Imaginary Woman  - 5:03

09.  Canned Heat - Woodstock Boogie  - 13:48

10.  Audience during Rainstorm - Let the Sunshine In  - 0:55

Notes
Released:  July 12, 1971

Recorded:  August 15–18, 1969

Genre:  Roots Rock , Blues, Pop, Folk

Length:  78:41

Label:  Atlantic

Producer:  Glyn Johns

(35) Ike & Tina Turner - Workin´ Together (1971)

Released early in 1971, a few months after "Come Together", their first album for Liberty Records, "Workin' Together" was the first genuine hit album Ike & Tina had in years. After all, their classic '60s sides were just that sides of a single, not an album. Even though it doesn't boast the sustained vision of such contemporaries as, say, Marvin Gaye and Al Green, "Workin' Together" feels like a proper album, where many of the buried album tracks are as strong as the singles. Like its predecessor, it relies a bit too much on contemporary covers, which isn't bad when it's the perennial "Proud Mary," since it deftly reinterprets the original, but readings of the Beatles' "Get Back" and "Let It Be," while not bad, are a little bit too pedestrian. Fortunately, they're entirely listenable and they're the only slow moments, outweighed by songs that crackle with style and passion. Nowhere is this truer than on the opening title track, a mid-tempo groover (written by Eki Renrut, Ike's brilliant inverted alias) powered by a soulful chorus and a guitar line that plays like a mutated version of Dylan's "I Want You" riff. Then, there's the terrific Stax/Volt stomper "(Long As I Can) Get You When I Want You," possibly the highlight on the record. Though they cut a couple of classics over the next few years, most notably "Nutbush City Limits," the duo never topped this, possibly the best proper album they ever cut.

Track listing

01.  Workin' Together  (Eki Renrut)  - 3:32
02.  (As Long as I Can) Get You When I Want You  (George Jackson, Raymond Moore)  - 2:22
03.  Get Back  (Lennon, McCartney)  - 3:03
04.  The Way You Love Me  (Ike Turner)  - 2:38
05.  You Can Have It  (Eki Renrut)  - 3:28
06.  Game of Love  (Eki Renrut)  - 2:45
07.  Funkier Than a Mosquito's Tweeter  (Aillene Bullock)  - 2:34
08.  Ooh Poo Pah Doo  (Jessie Hill)  - 3:35
09.  Proud Mary  (John Fogerty)  - 4:56
10.  Goodbye, So Long  (Eki Renrut)  - 1:55
11.  Let It Be  (Lennon, McCartney)  - 3:09

Release:  1971
Label:  Liberty
Genre:  Soul, Funk
Length:  33:52
Producer:  Ike Turner
Engineer:  Brent Maher

Personnel
Tina Turner - Lead Vocal
Ike Turner - Lead Vocal
The Ikettes - Background Vocals
Ike Turner & The Kings of Rhythm - All Instrumentation

(34) Soft Machine - Fourth (1971)

"Fourth" is a 1971 studio album by the Canterbury band Soft Machine. The album is also titled Four or 4 in the USA; the numeral "4" is the title as shown on the cover in all countries, but a written-out title appears on the spine and label. This was the group's first all-instrumental album,
The Soft Machine's collective skill is hyper-complex and refined, as they are extremely literate in all fields of musical study. Fourth is the band's free purging of all of that knowledge, woven into noisy, smoky structures of sound. Their arcane rhythms have a stop-and-go mentality of their own that sounds incredibly fresh even though it is sonically steeped in soft and warm tones. Obviously there is a lot of skillful playing going on, as the mix of free jazz, straight-ahead jazz, and Gong-like psychedelia coalesces into a skronky plateau. Robert Wyatt's drumming is impeccable -- so perfect that it at times becomes an unnoticeable map upon which the band takes their instinctive direction. Mike Ratledge's keys are warm throughout, maintaining an earthy quality that keeps its eye on the space between the ground and the heavens that the Soft Machine attempt to inhabit. Elton Dean's saxophone work screams out the most inventive cadence, and since it's hardly rhythmic, it takes front and center, spitting out a crazy language. Certainly the band is the preface to a good portion of Chicago's post-rock output, as they undoubtedly give a nod to Miles Davis' Bitches Brew experiments, which were going on in the U.S. at the same time.

Track listing

1.  Teeth  (Mike Ratledge)  - 9:15
2.  Kings and Queens  (Hugh Hopper)  - 5:02
3.  Fletcher's Blemish  (Elton Dean)  - 4:35
4.  Virtually Part 1  (Hopper)  - 5:16
5.  Virtually Part 2  (Hopper)  - 7:09
6.  Virtually Part 3  (Hopper)  - 4:33
7.  Virtually Part 4  (Hopper)  - 3:23

Released:  February 28, 1971
Recorded at:  Olympic Studios, London
Genre:  Jazz Fusion
Length:  39:13
Label:  CBS
Producer:  Soft Machine

Personnel
Hugh Hopper – bass guitar
Mike Ratledge – (Lowrey) organ, (Wurlitzer) piano
Robert Wyatt – drums
Elton Dean – alto saxophone, saxello
Roy Babbington – double bass
Mark Charig – cornet
Nick Evans – trombone
Jimmy Hastings – alto flute, bass clarinet
Alan Skidmore – tenor saxophone

(33) Lynn Anderson - Rose Garden (1971)

"Rose Garden" was an album released in 1971 by country singer Lynn Anderson. The album was the same name as the single she released in late 1970. The song went on to top the country charts, where it stayed at the #1 position for five weeks
Lynn Anderson was one of the most popular female country singers of the early '70s, helped by her regular exposure on national television. Anderson was born in Grand Forks, ND, and grew up in Sacramento, CA; her mother, Liz, was a professional songwriter best-known for penning Merle Haggard's early hits "(All My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers" and "The Fugitive" (the latter with her husband, Carey). Naturally, Lynn picked up music too, and performed as a singer and guitarist during her teen years.
In 1970, Anderson moved to Nashville with her husband, writer/producer Glenn Sutton, and signed with Columbia. She quickly scored the biggest hit of her career with the Joe South-penned "Rose Garden," which topped the country charts and went all the way to number three on the pop side. It won her a Grammy for Best Female Country Vocal, and proved a hit in 15 countries.

Track listing

01.  (I Never Promised You A) Rose Garden  (Joe South)  - 2:53
02.  For the Good Times  (Kris Kristofferson)  - 3:25
03.  Another Lonely Night  (Larry Butler)  - 2:05
04.  I Don't Wanna Play House  (Billy Sherrill, Glenn Sutton)  - 2:28
05.  Snowbird  (Gene MacLellan)  - 2:05
06.  Your Sweet Love Lifted Me  (George Richey, Glenn Sutton)  - 2:42
07.  Sunday Morning Coming Down  (Kris Kristofferson)  - 3:49
08.  I Still Belong to You  (Bill Rice, Jerry Foster)  - 2:44
09.  I Wish I Was a Little Boy Again  (Glenn Sutton, Darrell Edwards)  - 2:07
10.  It's Only Make Believe  (Conway Twitty, Jack Nance)  - 2:15
11.  Nothing Between Us  (Lynn Anderson)  - 2:45

Released:  1971
Recorded at:  Columbia Recording Studio, Nashville, TN
Genre:  Country
Label:  Columbia
Length:  29:11
Producer:  Glenn Sutton, Clive Davis

Personnel
Lynn Anderson - Lead Vocals

(32) David Crosby - If I Could Only Remember My Name (1971)

"If I Could Only Remember My Name" is the debut solo album by David Crosby, released in February 1971 on Atlantic Records. One of four high-profile albums released by each member of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young in the wake of their chart-topping Déjà Vu album,
A large grouping of prominent musicians from the era appear on the record, including Nash, Young, Joni Mitchell, members of the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, and Santana. This ad-hoc ensemble was given the moniker of "The Great Planet Earth Rock and Roll Orchestra" by longtime Crosby associate Paul Kantner;
This album is a one-shot wonder of dreamy but ominous California ambience. The songs range from brief snapshots of inspiration (the angelic chorale-vocal showcase on "Orleans" and the a cappella closer, "I'd Swear There Was Somebody Here") to the full-blown, rambling western epic "Cowboy Movie," and there are absolutely no false notes struck or missteps taken. No one before or since has gotten as much mileage out of a wordless vocal as Crosby does on "Tamalpais High (At About 3)" and "Song With No Words (Tree With No Leaves)," and because the music is so relaxed, each song turns into its own panoramic vista. Those who don't go for trippy Aquarian sentiment, however, may be slightly put off by the obscure, cosmic storytelling of the gorgeous "Laughing" or the ambiguous (but pointed) social questioning of "What Are Their Names," but in actuality it is an incredibly focused album. Even when a song as pretty as "Traction in the Rain" shimmers with its picked guitars and autoharp, the album is coated in a distinct, persistent menace that is impossible to shake. It is a shame that Crosby would continue to descend throughout the remainder of the decade and the beginning of the next into aimless drug addiction, and that he would not issue another solo album until 18 years later. As it is, "If I Could Only Remember My Name" is a shambolic masterpiece, meandering but transcendentally so, full of frayed threads. Not only is it among the finest splinter albums out of the CSNY diaspora, it is one of the defining moments of hungover spirituality from the era.

Track listing

1.  Music Is Love  (David Crosby, Graham Nash, Neil Young)  - 3:16
2.  Cowboy Movie  (Crosby)  - 8:02
3.  Tamalpais High (At About 3)  (Crosby)  - 3:29
4.  Laughing  (Crosby)  - 5:20
5.  What Are Their Names  (Crosby, Garcia, Lesh, Michael Shrieve, Young)  - 4:09
6.  Traction in the Rain  (Crosby)  - 3:40
7.  Song With No Words (Tree With No Leaves)  (Crosby)  - 5:53
8.  Orleans  (traditional)  - 1:56
9.  I'd Swear There Was Somebody Here  (Crosby)  - 1:19

Released:  February 22, 1971
Recorded at:  Wally Heiders, San Francisco, CA
Genre:  Rock
Length:  37:04
Label:  Atlantic
Producer:  David Crosby

Personnel
David Crosby – guitars, vocals
Laura Allan - autoharp, vocal
Jack Casady - bass
David Freiberg - vocal
Jerry Garcia – guitars, pedal steel guitar, vocal
Mickey Hart – drums
Paul Kantner - vocal
Bill Kreutzmann – drums, tambourine
Phil Lesh – bass, vocal
Joni Mitchell - vocals
Graham Nash – guitar, vocals
Gregg Rolie - piano
Michael Shrieve - drums
Grace Slick - vocal
Neil Young – guitars, bass, vibraphone, congas, vocals

(31) Jimi Hendrix - The Cry Of Love (1971)

"The Cry of Love" is a posthumous fourth studio album by American musician Jimi Hendrix, released in February 1971. It was the first Hendrix album released after his death and was engineered, mixed and compiled by Eddie Kramer and Mitch Mitchell. The album cover illustration was by Nancy Reiner.
This was the first of the posthumous releases in the Jimi Hendrix catalog and probably the best as it collected most of the studio tracks that were either completed or very near completion before Hendrix died. Some of these tunes, like "Angel" and "Ezy Rider," have become well-known pieces in the Hendrix canon, but they sit alongside lesser-known gems like "Night Bird Flying" and the Dylanesque "My Friend." Cry of Love as an album has been rendered as a footnote, since the Hendrix estate has recompiled, to Hendrix's specifications, First Rays of the New Rising Sun. This (originally) double-album set contains not only the entire "Cry of Love" LP, but the best studio tracks from Rainbow Bridge, War Heroes, and Crash Landing, presented in drastically improved sound.
The song "My Friend" was recorded during the early stages of the Electric Ladyland sessions in 1968. "Belly Button Window", was Jimi's last studio recording with vocals. It was recorded at Electric Lady Studios on August 22, 1970.

Track listing

01.  Freedom  - 3:24
02.  Drifting  - 3:46
03.  Ezy Ryder  - 4:09
04.  Night Bird Flying  - 3:50
05.  My Friend  - 4:40
06.  Straight Ahead  - 4:42
07.  Astro Man  - 3:37
08.  Angel  - 4:25
09.  In From the Storm  - 3:42
10.  Belly Button Window  - 3:34

Released:  February 1971
Recorded at:  the Sound Center, Record Plant Studios and Electric Lady Studios in New York City, New York
Genre:  Psychedelic Rock
Length:  39:48
Label:  Polydor
Producer:  Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Kramer, Mitch Mitchell
All songs written and composed by:  Jimi Hendrix

Personnel
Jimi Hendrix – lead vocals, guitars, backing vocals
Billy Cox – bass
Mitch Mitchell – drums
Juma Sultan – percussion
Buddy Miles – drums
Noel Redding – bass
The Ghetto Fighters – backing vocals
Emeretta Marks – backing vocals
Steve Winwood – backing vocals
Chris Wood – backing vocals
Buzzy Linhart – vibraphone
Billy Armstrong – percussion
Kenny Pine – twelve-string guitar
Jimmy Mayes – drums
Stephen Stills – piano
Paul Caruso – harmonica

(03) Janis Joplin - Pearl (1971)

"Pearl" is the fourth album by Janis Joplin, released posthumously on Columbia Records, in January 1971. It was the final album with her direct participation, and the only Joplin album recorded with the Full Tilt Boogie Band, her final touring unit. The Full Tilt Boogie Band were the musicians who accompanied her on the famous train tour of Canada, Festival Express, in the summer of 1970, and many of the songs on this album were introduced on the concert stage in Canada. Janis Joplin's second masterpiece after "Cheap Thrills", "Pearl" was designed as a showcase for her powerhouse vocals, stripping down the arrangements that had often previously cluttered her music or threatened to drown her out. Thanks also to a more consistent set of songs, the results are magnificent given room to breathe, Joplin's trademark rasp conveys an aching, desperate passion on funked-up, bluesy rockers, ballads both dramatic and tender, and her signature song, the posthumous number one hit "Me and Bobby McGee." The unfinished "Buried Alive in the Blues" features no Joplin vocals she was scheduled to record them on the day after she was found dead. Its incompleteness mirrors Joplin's career; Pearl's power leaves the listener to wonder what else Joplin could have accomplished, but few artists could ask for a better final statement.

Tracklist

01.  Move Over  (Janis Joplin)  - 3:43
02.  Cry Baby  (Jerry Ragovoy, Bert Berns)  - 3:58
03.  A Woman Left Lonely  (Dan Penn, Spooner Oldham)  - 3:29
04.  Half Moon  (John Hall, Johanna Hall)  - 3:53
05.  Buried Alive in the Blues  (Nick Gravenites)  - 2:29
06.  My Baby  (Jerry Ragovoy, Mort Shuman)  - 3:26
07.  Me and Bobby McGee  (Kris Kristofferson, Fred Foster)  - 4:33
08.  Mercedes Benz  (Janis Joplin, Bob Neuwirth, Michael McClure)  - 1:48
09.  Trust Me  (Bobby Womack)  - 3:17
10.  Get It While You Can  (Jerry Ragovoy, Mort Shuman)  - 3:27

Released:  January 11, 1971
Genre:  Blues Rock
Length:  34:10
Label:  Columbia
Producer:  Paul A. Rothchild

Personnel
Janis Joplin – vocals, guitar on "Me and Bobby McGee"
Richard Bell – piano
Ken Pearson – organ
John Till – electric guitar
Brad Campbell – bass guitar
Clark Pierson – drums
Bobby Womack – acoustic guitar on "Trust Me"
Bobbye Hall – conga, percussion
Phil Badella, John Cooke, Vince Mitchell – backing vocals
Sandra Crouch – tambourine