STEPHEN STILLS 1970 UK ATLANTIC 1st PRESS NON-LAMINATED SLEEVE MINT
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STEPHEN STILLS 1970 UK ATLANTIC 1st PRESS NON-LAMINATED SLEEVE MINT
STEPHEN STILLSStephen Stills
UK ATLANTIC DELUXE (2401 004) FIRST PRESSING (November 1970) OF STEPHEN STILLS' EPONYMOUS SOLO DEBUT
BEAUTIFULLY COPY WHICH HAS SEEN LITTLE USE AND SOUNDS LIKE NEW
THE ALBUM IS DEDICATED TO JIMI HENDRIX ("James Marshall Hendrix") WHO GUESTS ON LEAD GUITAR ON "Old Times Good Times" AND LAID DOWN THE TRACK JUST BEFORE HIS UNTIMELY DEATH ON THE 18th SEPTEMBER 1970
PRESSED WITH THE FIRST ISSUE ATLANTIC RED/PLUM LABELS
Matrix Side One: 2401004 A//2//1 11 1 with a small symbol of a drum and 2 drumsticks
Matrix Side Two: 2401004 B//2//2 11 1
THE RECORD IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL MATT COVER "Printed and made by the E. J. Day Group, London and Bedford" (VARIANT AS MOST SLEEVES ARE FULLY LAMINATED)
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL POLY-LINED INNER SLEEVE DATED JUNE 1970 ('0670')
Talk about understatement -- there's Stephen Stills on the cover, acoustic guitar in hand, promising a personal singer/songwriter-type statement. And there is some of that -- even a lot of that personal music-making -- on Stephen Stills, but it's all couched in astonishingly bold musical terms. Listening to this album now, it's still a jaw-dropping experience.
The mix of folk, blues (acoustic and electric), hard rock, and gospel is seamless, and the musicianship and the singing are outstanding.
Recorded amid the breakup of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Stills' first solo album was his effort to put together his own sound and, not surprisingly, it's similar to a lot of stuff on the group's two albums. But it's also infinitely more personal, as well as harder and bluesier in many key spots; yet, it's every bit as soft and as lyrical as the group in other spots, and all laced with a degree of yearning and urgency that far outstrips virtually anything he did with the group.
"Love the One You're With," which started life as a phrase that Stills borrowed from Billy Preston at a party, is the song from this album that everybody knows, but it's actually one of the lesser cuts here -- not much more than a riff and an upbeat lyric and mood, albeit all of it infectious. "Do for the Others," by contrast, is one of the most moving pieces of music that Stills has ever been associated with, and "Church (Part of Someone)" showed him moving toward gospel and R&B (and good at it, too); and then there's "Old Times Good Times," musically as good a rock song as Stills has ever recorded (even if it borrows a bit from "Pre-Road Downs"), and featuring JIMI HENDRIX on lead guitar.
"Go Back Home" (which has ERIC CLAPTON on guitar) is fine a piece of bluesy hard rock, while "Sit Yourself Down" features superb singing by Stills and a six-person backing chorus (that includes Cass Elliot, Graham Nash, and David Crosby) around a great tune.
"To a Flame" is downright ethereal, while the live "Black Queen" is a superb piece of acoustic blues.
All of this is presented by Stills in the best singing voice of his career up to that point, bolder, more outgoing, and more powerful (a result of his contact with Doris Troy) than anything in his previous output.
He also plays lots of instruments (à la Crosby, Stills & Nash, which is another reason it sounds so similar to the group in certain ways), though a bit more organ than guitar, thanks to the presence of HENDRIX and CLAPTON on two cuts.
Side 1:
Love The One You're With (3:03)
Do For The Others (2:52)
Church (Part Of Someone) (4:05)
Old Times Good Times (3:38)
Go Back Home (5:56)
Side 2:
Sit Yourself Down (3:05)
To A Flame (3:10)
Black Queen (5:28)
Cherokee (3:24)
We Are Not Helpless (4:17)
LABELS: NEAR MINT
Clean, unmarked labels with barely a spindle trace to be seen
VINYL Visual: NEAR MINT
Both surfaces shine like new and even under bright light there is barely a hairline to be seen.
And not even cleaned as it looks so immaculate
VINYL Audio: MINT
Plays perfectly from start to finish with nothing to fault.
No clicks, ticks or pops and beautifully clean on the quieter acoustic sections
SLEEVE: MINT
The matt cover is in exceptional condition and as crisp, clean, sharp and fresh as the day it was made
POST & PACKING:
A PROTECTIVE POLY SLEEVE, NEW ANTI-STATIC LINERS, QUALITY BOX (NOT ENVELOPE) MAILER AND AMPLE STIFFENERS ARE ALWAYS USED TO ENSURE THAT YOUR RECORD ARRIVES SAFELY
UK: £5.00 (Recorded Delivery)
UK: £11.00 (Royal Mail Special Delivery Next Day by 1pm)
EUROPE: Airmail: £15.00 (International Signed For delivery)
INTERNATIONAL: Airmail: £20.00 (International Signed For delivery)
Combined Post: Additional records £1 (UK) £2 (Europe including Russia) £3 (International)
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