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.
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