March 17, 1975
Stephen Stills - Turn Back the Pages
Stephen Stills' fourth solo album was his first to be released on Highway 61 Records. Produced with good friend Peter Tork, Stills began work on Turn Back the Pages in 1973, then under the working title Everybody's Talkin', and was mostly completed by the time he toured as part of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, only returning to work on the album at the start of 1975. Despite the recording beginning in 1973, a little less than half of the album consisted of outtakes from early CSNY sessions that didn't make previous albums such as "Everyday We Live" and "Ivory Tower".
Turn Back the Pages charted at #19 in the United States and received mixed reviews from critics. No singles were released off of the album. Reflecting on this period in his life, Stills commented that he "short-circuited for a while; things were moving too fast. I got a little crazed. Too much drinking, too many drugs. What can I say?" (2018)
Released: March 17, 1975
Recorded: 1973-1975
Producer: Stephen Stills and Peter Tork
Track listing[1]
Side A
Turn Back the Pages
My Favorite Changes
Everyday We Live
In the Way
Love Story
To Mama from Christopher and the Old Man
My Favorite Changes
Everyday We Live
In the Way
Love Story
To Mama from Christopher and the Old Man
Side B
Everybody's Talkin'
I'll Be There
How Have You Been
Shuffle Just as Bad
Cold Cold World
Ivory Tower
I'll Be There
How Have You Been
Shuffle Just as Bad
Cold Cold World
Ivory Tower
Stephen Stills' fourth solo album was his first to be released on Highway 61 Records. Produced with good friend Peter Tork, Stills began work on Turn Back the Pages in 1973, then under the working title Everybody's Talkin', and was mostly completed by the time he toured as part of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, only returning to work on the album at the start of 1975. Despite the recording beginning in 1973, a little less than half of the album consisted of outtakes from early CSNY sessions that didn't make previous albums such as "Everyday We Live" and "Ivory Tower".
Turn Back the Pages charted at #19 in the United States and received mixed reviews from critics. No singles were released off of the album. Reflecting on this period in his life, Stills commented that he "short-circuited for a while; things were moving too fast. I got a little crazed. Too much drinking, too many drugs. What can I say?" (2018)
January 30, 1976
Released: January 30, 1976
Recorded: 1975
Producer: David Crosby, Graham Nash and Stephen Barncard
Track listing[2]
Side A
Spotlight
Bittersweet
Marguerita
Naked in the Rain
Dancer
Love Work Out
Bittersweet
Marguerita
Naked in the Rain
Dancer
Love Work Out
Side B
Mama Lion
Low Down Payment
Cowboy of Dreams
Take the Money and Run
Critical Mass/Wind on the Water
Low Down Payment
Cowboy of Dreams
Take the Money and Run
Critical Mass/Wind on the Water
Much like Stephen Stills, David Crosby and Graham Nash worked with an outside producer for their next collaboration; in this case, Stephen Barncard. Crosby and Nash had begun recording Wind on the Water not too long after the completion of the recording for Human Highway, and even did a few shows as a duo in-between the sessions. Among the people working on the album included keyboardist Craig Doerge, who would collaborate with Crosby on songwriting in the future.
Wind on the Water received positive reviews from critics and charted at #16 in the United States. However, the sole single, "Take the Money and Run"/"Out of the Darkness", only managed to reach #52 in the same country.
Footnotes
- "Everyday We Live", "Everybody's Talkin'", "I'll Be There", "How Have You Been" and "Ivory Tower" are all CSNY outtakes from 1969 and 1970; the remaining tracks are sourced from Stills (1975).
- Tracks are sourced from Wind on the Water and Whistling Down the Wire.
Author's Comments
Not much to say here; just putting out the remaining CSNY solo projects from the 1975-1976 period. And in case you're wondering, Illegal Stills (1976) comes out with the same track listing as it did in OTL.
Not much to say here; just putting out the remaining CSNY solo projects from the 1975-1976 period. And in case you're wondering, Illegal Stills (1976) comes out with the same track listing as it did in OTL.
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