DAVID CROSBY If I Could Only Remember My Name; 1971, Atlantic 7203RI, Txtrd Gfld
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DAVID CROSBY
IF I COULD ONLY
REMEMBER MY NAME
1971 Atlantic, 7203 RI.
Released on Feb 22, 1971.
Notes:
- This issue shows the Broadway address on the label and is in a textured cover.
- Recorded at Wally Heiders in San Francisco, Calif.
- Gatefold packaging.
David Crosby started the ’70s riding high — in more ways than one — but emotionally, he was scraping rock bottom. Out of that turmoil came Crosby’s solo debut, If I Could Only Remember My Name, which arrived on Feb. 22, 1971.
Crosby’s woes started prior to the sessions for Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young‘s second record, 1970’s Déjà Vu, during which he struggled to cope with his grief over the death of girlfriend Christine Hinton, who’d been killed in a car accident in September 1969. Given a necessary focus in the studio, he decided to stay there after CSNY went their separate ways.
He had plenty of company on his journey, too. In fact, as the sessions wore on, Crosby presided over a virtual Who’s Who of the West Coast rock scene, working a long list of his famous friends into the tracks. “Graham Nash came a lot, Jerry Garcia came even more, almost every night — he was a good friend and he liked it that I was as open to the accident of music as he was,” he told MOJO. “Phil [Lesh] came very often, Jorma [Kaukonen], Grace [Slick], Paul [Kantner], Joni [Mitchell]. They were all friends. It saved me. Because I could dive into making that music and spend a whole night stacking harmonies on myself, being the Mormon Tabernacle me, and it would elevate me out of the hole that I was in.”
In its final form, If I Could Only Remember My Name wasn’t the relentless downer Crosby described in 1970, but the record’s gloom was replaced by an overall sense of hazy drift that reflected his growing heroin dependence — and was aptly summed up by tracks like the wandering, six-minute “Song with No Words (Tree with No Leaves),” whose wordless meandering proved a point of particular contention with label boss David Geffen until top exec Ahmet Ertegun reportedly soothed his fears. “Don’t worry,” Ertegun is quoted as saying in Barney Hoskyns’ Hotel California: The True-Life Adventures of Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young, Mitchell, Taylor, Browne, Ronstadt, Geffen, the Eagles and Their Many Friends. “We’ve already shipped a million.”
Ultimately, Ertegun was right — If I Could Only Remember My Name peaked at a healthy No. 12, going gold, and although reviews were uneven and the songs weren’t exactly radio-friendly, the album would eventually come to be seen as an influential progenitor of freak folk whose echoes could be heard decades later in the music of younger artists like Devendra Banhart and Sufjan Stevens. Still, over the ensuing years, Crosby proved more comfortable in the context of collaborative projects, focusing mostly on his efforts with various other members of CSNY — and when he finally resumed his solo career with 1989’s Oh Yes I Can, he’d moved to the middle of the road, delivering a straightforward set of pop-rock songs that had little in common with the experimental side he’d explored with his debut.
Track listing
Side one
1. "Music Is Love" (David Crosby, Graham Nash, Neil Young) 3:16
2. "Cowboy Movie" (David Crosby) 8:02
3. "Tamalpais High (at about 3)" (David Crosby) 3:29
4. "Laughing" (David Crosby) 5:20
Side two
1. "What Are Their Names" (Crosby, Garcia, Lesh, Shrieve, Young) 4:09 2. "Traction in the Rain" (David Crosby) 3:40
3. "Song with No Words (Tree with No Leaves)" (David Crosby) 5:53
4. "Orleans" (traditional) 1:56
5. "I'd Swear There Was Somebody Here" (David Crosby) 1:19
Personnel
- David Crosby — vocals, guitar
- Graham Nash — guitar, vocal on "Music Is Love"; vocals on "Tamalpais High," "Laughing," "What Are Their Names," "Traction in the Rain," and "Song with No Words"
- Jerry Garcia — electric guitar on "Cowboy Movie," "Tamalpais High," "What Are Their Names," and "Song with No Words";
- pedal steel guitar on "Laughing";
- guitars on "Kids and Dogs";
- vocal on "What Are Their Names"
- Neil Young — guitars, vocals on "Music Is Love" and "What Are Their Names";
- bass, vibraphone, congas on "Music Is Love"
- Jorma Kaukonen — electric guitar on "Tamalpais High" and "Song with No Words"
- Laura Allan — autoharp, vocal on "Traction in the Rain"
- Gregg Rolie — piano on "Song with No Words"
- Phil Lesh — bass on "Cowboy Movie," "Tamalpais High," "Laughing," and "What Are Their Names";
- vocal on "What Are Their Names?"
- Jack Casady — bass on "Song with No Words"
- Bill Kreutzmann — drums on "Tamalpais High" and "Laughing";
- tambourine on "Cowboy Movie"
- Michael Shrieve — drums on "What Are Their Names" and "Song with No Words"
- Mickey Hart — drums on "Cowboy Movie"
- Joni Mitchell — vocals on "Laughing" and "What Are Their Names"
- David Freiberg, Paul Kantner, Grace Slick — vocals on "What Are Their Names"
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