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I saw CPR in the short time they toured and have been looking for this CD ever since (only one printing). When you listen to this, appreciate the harmonies because these voices don't come along every day. No one is closer to your own voice than your offspring and it's very apparent here.
Pevar's guitar playing is so lyrical at times. It's no wonder the guitar is the closest instrument in mimmicking the human voice. Don't be afraid to pay a premium price for this if you can find it. It's worth every penny.
November 30, 2007I love this CD. CPR makes the kind of music I love. For an even better experience, go to youtube and listen to the live versions of some of these tunes.
November 11, 2007| | | It's all coming back to me now | |
I bought this cd when it first came out; I love love love CSN&Y, so I figured "Why not? David Crosby is good, might as well check it out." The BEST decision I think I'd made in a long time. Wonderful jazz-rock-fusion stuff.
Then the awful happened. The CD wouldn't play anymore. This was 1999.
Just today, I received this CD in the mail. 8 years later, and I have CPR back. And I couldn't be happier.
From the opener "Morrison" (dedicated to Jim Morrison) to "Rusty and Blue"(the highlight of the album) to "Little Blind Fish"(I dare you not to groove to this song), and every song in between, this is a fantastic album; get it while you can, I believe it is out of print! HIGHLY HIGHLY recommended.
April 25, 2007I love this album. The songwriting, musicianship, and vocals are all outstanding.
December 13, 2006 | | Great direction for Crosby | |
The image David Crosby established for himself from CSN forward was that of aggressively boring, substance-addled, politically correct pain in *** who happened to have a great voice. Or, if you liked that kind of character, a truth-telling hippie sage who happened to have a great voice. What was not apparent about Crosby was his depth as a musician. Partly this is because, paradoxically, he was usually at his best in the musical background, adding a layer of complexity to the CSN (and before that, Byrd) harmonies that most casual listeners would not be likely to isolate on. But a close listen to his work with the Byrds (plus his fantastic first solo album, which didn't get a lot of attention at the time it came out in '71), and it becomes more apparent what he contributed, and where his gifts really lay. Crosby is, above all, a melder of jazz and folk. When he wants it to be, his relationship to jazz is akin to Steely Dan's. The music SEEMS to fit into the pop/rock/folk genre, but veers off in directions that aren't easily identifiable as jazz, but gain richness from the borrowing. For the Byrds, this tendency came out in songs like "Everybody's Been Burned," which Norah Jones should cover, to "Tribal Gathering" which paradoxically celebrates the hippie community with beatnik vocalese. But then, with a few exceptions (the song "Deja Vu," some of the wordless songs on "If I Could Only Remember My Name") he left the overt jazzy style behind, to become the Crosby most of us think we know.
CPR takes Crosby firmly back into that direction, and the results are fantastic. I hadn't even bothered to listen to this stuff til now, five years later, but it is instantly arresting and beautiful. His colleagues are musically skilled enough to keep up with the challenging sound Crosby wants to create here. It is much more like Steely Dan (except not lyrically) than it is like CSN--thank goodness.
Four stars instead of five? Only because the album lets the sidemen take the lead a couple of times, and those songs are boring. But Crosby's stuff on this record is stellar and very much worth hearing. September 16, 2003
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