Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. One family, 9 albums.

You want to hear the three voices on their first album together

Then start with “Crosby, Stills & Nash” from 1969: Crosby came from the Byrds, Stills from Buffalo Springfield, Nash from the Hollies. It was recorded in the spring of 1969 at Wally Heider’s Studio III in Los Angeles, with the three of them credited as producers. Their musical starting point was Stills’ “You Don’t Have to Cry”: a song that became the chance to try their voices together.

You want to hear the quartet

On “Déjà Vu” Neil Young joins them in 1970. Crosby’s title track unfolds in irregular phrases and layered voices, “4 + 20” belongs to Stills and his acoustic guitar alone, and “Everybody I Love You” closes the record with Stills and Young in a compact electric surge.

You want to get to know them one by one

“Stephen Stills” from 1970 is Stephen Stills’ first solo album, and he wrote all ten songs. Jimi Hendrix plays on “Old Times Good Times”, Eric Clapton on “Go Back Home”. On “If I Could Only Remember My Name”, musicians from Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane and Santana take part, and Joni Mitchell sings on “Laughing”. With Graham Nash, on “Songs for Beginners”, Neil Young sits at the piano as “Joe Yankee”.

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You want to hear them find their way back together

“CSN” appeared in 1977, eight years after the trio’s first album. The reconciliation began when Stephen Stills turned up unexpectedly at a Crosby and Nash concert. Graham Nash wrote “Just a Song Before I Go” in Hawaii – it became the group’s highest-charting American single. “Daylight Again” from 1982 brings Nash’s “Wasted on the Way” and “Southern Cross” with Stills on lead vocals.

Which edition suits you?

All nine albums are available as double LPs at 45 rpm, spreading the same music over more record sides. Eight of them are also available as hybrid SACDs – all except “Crosby, Stills & Nash”. The CD layer plays on any CD player, the SACD layer on an SACD player.