david crosby - if i could only remember my name (hybrid sacd)
david crosby - if i could only remember my name (hybrid sacd)
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david crosby - if i could only remember my name (hybrid sacd)
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david crosby - if i could only remember my name (hybrid sacd)

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Description
MEDIUM HYBRID SACD
CONDITION sealed
MINI LP GATEFOLD CARDBOARD COVER M mint
BOOKLET M mint
SERIALNUMBER Yes
LIMITED No
MISCELLANEOUS Stereo, playable on all CD Players !
MUSICIAN HOMEPAGE   davidcrosby.com

David Crosby - vocals, guitar
Graham Nash - guitar, vocals (music is love, tamalpais high, laughing, what are their names, traction in the rain, song with no words)
Jerry Garcia - electric guitar (cowboy movie, tamalpais high, what are their names, song with no words); pedal steel guitar (laughing); vocals (what are their names)
Neil Young - guitars, vocals (music is love, what are their names); bass, vibraphone, congas (music is love)
Jorma Kaukonen - electric guitar (tamalpais high, song with no words)
Laura Allan - autoharp, vocals (traction in the rain)
Gregg Rolie - piano (song with no words)
Phil Lesh - bass (cowboy movie, tamalpais high, laughing, what are their names); vocals (what are their names)
Jack Casady - bass (song with no words)
Bill Kreutzmann - drums (tamalpais high, laughing); tambourine (cowboy movie)
Michael Shrieve - drums (what are their names, song with no words)
Mickey Hart - drums (cowboy movie)
Joni Mitchell - vocals (laughing, what are their names)
David Freiberg - vocals (what are their names)
Paul Kantner - vocals (what are their names)
Grace Slick - vocals (what are their names)

music is love - 3:23
cowboy movie - 8:13
tamalpais high (at about 3) - 3:33
laughing - 5:28
what are their names - 4:14
traction in The rain - 3:46
song with no words (tree with no leaves) - 6:00
orleans - 2:01
i'd swear there was somebody here - 1:23

No album personifies the relaxed, loose, albeit troubled early 1970s California aura like If I Could Only Remember My Name

Hallucinogenic, trippy, and akin to a foggy dream you want to last for hours on end, David Crosby's blissed-out solo debut transcends time and remains a key influence on the contemporary freak-folk scene

A thoroughly unique statement, it lingers as a beautiful convergence of spontaneity, collaboration, circumstance, and recording-studio acumen

Now, more than 50 years after its release, the longtime audiophile favorite has never sounded more ethereal, present, detailed, balanced, or lush

Mastered from the original master tapes, Mobile Fidelity's numbered hybrid SACD of the 1971 effort underlines the escapist peace of Crosby's music and brilliance of Stephen Barncard's engineering

Equally important, it reveals Crosby's unsurpassed vocal performances and the inspired contributions of the many illustrious Bay Area colleagues and friends – Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Graham Nash, key members of the Grateful Dead, and several members of the Jefferson Airplane included – that allow If I Could Only Remember My Name to function as an altered-consciousness paean to community, harmony, and necessary emotional release (and suspension)

Always renowned for gorgeous sonics, the album takes on deeper transcendental qualities and resonates with more spiritual energy on Mobile Fidelity's reissue

Listeners can now fully hear and see into the fabric of each song, witness the notes seemingly dissolve into thin air, and perceive why Barncard – who, a year before, helmed the Grateful Dead's American Beauty – cited the echo chamber at Wally Heider Recording as "probably the best chamber I've used anywhere, anytime

It was magic

That's what you hear on [Jerry] Garcia's pedal steel on ‘Laughing'

Other examples of the so-called "magic" extend to the completely live take (and organic realism) of "Cowboy Movie," live autoharp and natural tonality on "Traction in the Rain," and the subtle phasing blending with the live-to-mono immediacy of Crosby, Nash, and Young's vocals on "Music Is Love"

Ranked one of the 40 Greatest Stoner Albums by Rolling Stone, which rightly declares it a "super-stoned campfire jam," If I Could Only Remember My Name is furthered by the fact it's rooted in deep-seated sorrow and haunting sadness - namely, the death of Crosby's then-girlfriend in a car accident

Originally, the singer intended to bottle up his feelings, but as sessions proceeded and the work primarily came together on the spot, the truth began to trickle out

While it lacks a narrative arc or straightforward lyrics, the nine-track record lands upon something richer than obvious words: That of a distinct, persistent vibe indicative of a nagging, ominous reality lurking beneath a warm, hazy, supportive surface

RECORDING 1970 - 1971 at Wally Heider Recording, Studio D, San Francisco
ENGINEERING Stephen Barncard
LABEL Atlantic
RE MASTERING Shawn R. Britton
RE RELEASED 2022
AVERAGE RATING 4.67 Stars out of 5
MADE IN USA
STYLE Rock / Folk Rock / Psychedelic / Jazz
AVAILABLE as long as inventory stock
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