Stephen Stills (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Stephen Stills
Type = Album
Artist = Stephen Stills


Released = November 16 1970
Recorded = 1970 at Island Studios, London
Genre = Folk-rock, Rock
Length = 38:56
Label = Atlantic
Producer = Stephen Stills, Bill Halverson
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:ps47gjvrj6ib link]
* Robert Christgau (C+) [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=3819&name=Stephen+Stills link]
* "Rolling Stone" (not rated) [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/stephenstills/albums/album/305582/review/5942727/stephen_stills link]
Last album =
This album = "Stephen Stills"
(1970)
Next album = "Stephen Stills 2"
(1971)

"Stephen Stills" is an eponymous rock album by the musician famous for his long-time membership in Crosby, Stills, & Nash. It consists of compositions by Stephen Stills, and is one of four high-profile albums released by each partner of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young in the wake of their chart-topping "Déjà Vu" album of 1970.

The album features an array of well-known guest musicians, unsurprisingly including David Crosby and Graham Nash, who contribute vocals. Ringo Starr drums on two tracks under the pseudonym "Richie," which he also used for his contribution to the "London Sessions" album by American bluesman The Howlin' Wolf, recorded in England the same year. Stills' album is also the only album in rock and roll history to which both Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix supplied guitar work. Hendrix would be dead before the album was released; Stills dedicated the album to "James Marshall Hendrix."

The song "We Are Not Helpless" was written in response to Neil Young's "Helpless" from the CSNY album, and both "Black Queen" and "Love the One You're With" have remained in the performing repertoire respectively of both Stills and CSN. "Love the One You're With," Stills' biggest solo hit single to date, peaked at #14 on the Billboard Hot 100 on December 19, 1970, and another 45 pulled from the album, "Sit Yourself Down," went to #37 on March 27, 1971.

The album peaked at #3 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums in the chart in the week of December 5, 1970. It was reissued by WEA after being digitally remastered using the HDCD process on December 5, 1995.

Track listing

All songs written by Stephen Stills.

#"Love the One You're With" – 3:04
#"Do for the Others" – 2:52
#"Church (Part of Someone) – 4:05
#"Old Times Good Times" – 3:39
#"Go Back Home" – 5:54
#"Sit Yourself Down" – 3:05
#"To a Flame" – 3:08
#"Black Queen" – 5:26
#"Cherokee" – 3:23
#"We Are Not Helpless" – 4:20

Personnel

* Stephen Stills - vocals, guitars, bass, piano, organ, steel drum, percussion
* Calvin "Fuzzy" Samuels - bass
* Dallas Taylor - drums
* Conrad Isedor - drums
* Ringo Starr - drums
* Johnny Barbata - drums
* Jeff Whittaker - congas
* Jimi Hendrix - guitar (Track 4)
* Eric Clapton - guitar (Track 5)
* Booker T. Jones - organ, vocal
* Sidney George - flute and alto saxophone
* David Crosby - vocals
* Graham Nash - vocals
* John Sebastian - vocals
* Rita Coolidge - vocals
* Priscilla Jones - vocals
* Claudia Lanier - vocals
* Cass Elliott - vocals
* Henry Diltz - photography (cover), vocal
* Liza Strike - vocal
* Judith Powell - vocal
* Larry Steele - vocal
* Tony Wilson - vocal
* Sherlie Matthews - chorus, vocals

Horns arranged by Stephen Stills; strings arranged by Stephen Stills and Arif Mardin

Additional personnel

* Bill Halverson - producer
* Andy Johns - engineer
* Gary Burden - art direction, photography
* Charles John Quarto - sleeve poem
* Joe Gastwirt - digital remastering