Crosby & Nash - Wind on the Water

2008 digitally remastered edition of this album comes housed in a mini LP sleeve. Originally released in 1975, Wind On The Water is an exceptional album from the duo even without their third and fourth wheels (Stills and Young), Although not a huge commercial hit, this album was and remains a critical and fan favorite. Features guest appearances from Danny Kortchmar, David Lindley, James Taylor, Carole King, Jackson Browne and others. 11 tracks. Troubadour. Album Description

A High Point of the vast Crosby Stills Nash & Young Catalogue

This is nothng short of a brilliant collaboration between two of this century's finest musicians. The songs are superb-the playing equally matched if not exceeded, and the sound quality is greatly benefited by the ex-
cellent remastering job. I was thinking how awesome it would be to see a vast boxed set that would collect
all the very finest works from all four of these guys-I know it would be very anticipated by many, but for now
there is a huge volume of music to collect from CSNY. July 3, 2008

wonderful

if you are a fan of crosby and nash , buy this album . simple . it is excellent . January 8, 2008

My favorite Crosby - Nash album

This is my favorite Crosby - Nash album. It came three years and several solo projects after their first release and was a big hit in 1975 (reaching number 6 on the Billboard album chart in the US and being certified GOLD). Many of the songs on this album was intended for an aborted CSNY reunion. It produced one minor hit single "Carry Me" but many other songs received airplay on FM stations that played album cuts including: Bittersweet, Take The Money And Run, Love Work Out, and the classic To The Last Whale. A very strong effort! April 8, 2007

Crosby & Nash -- what a pairing

Originally released in September of 1975, "Wind on the Water" is the second proper album from the duo pairing of David Crosby and Graham Nash, and quite simply, it's a must-have.

You haven't truly lived if you haven't experienced the soaring beauty of Crosby's looping, aptly-titled "Bittersweet", and the dreamy contemplation of his "Homeward Through The Haze". Likewise, Nash's waltzing "Mama Lion" has striking lyrical imagery and an incredibly powerful buildup, with searingly emotional slide guitar from the extraordinary David Lindley. The album's ultimate 'forgotten gem', in that it doesn't appear on the "CSN" box set, and seems to have never been performed live by these guys (if it has, then just barely), is Nash's spellbindingly powerful and defiant anthem "Love Work Out"--Jackson Browne is credited for "other vocals" on it, and it features some of the richest vocal harmonies you could imagine, and the guitar interplay between Lindley and Danny Kortchmar is again extraordinary; CSN&Y should have seriously considered resurrecting this timeless inspirational gem for their 2006 Freedom of Speech tour, and hey, it'd have given Stills and Young a perfect vehicle for one of their guitar duels. Fittingly, Lindley brings out the fiddle, to excellent effect, for "Cowboy of Dreams", an excellent 3/4 country-western song that Nash claims to have written about Neil Young--heard today, the chorus sounds like a sly jab at those who are willing to go along with Young no matter what musical detour he chooses. "Naked In The Rain" is the first time Crosby and Nash shared a writing credit on a single song--it has a blissful, sun-kissed feel to it, with its blend of acoustic guitars, Craig Doerge's modulated electric piano, and Kortchmar's 'raining' electric guitar flourishes. Nash's protest number "Fieldworker" suffers from a somewhat lackluster execution, but it's still strong. Other great songs include Nash's angry "Take The Money And Run" and Crosby's dynamic, incredibly crafty "Low Down Payment". James Taylor is featured on at least two songs--Crosby's uplifting "Carry Me" (where he sings about a visit to his dying mother) and Nash's title song (a cautionary tale about the killing off of whales); it also sounds like Taylor playing acoustic guitar on "Bittersweet", although he is not credited (furthermore, no one at all is credited for playing acoustic guitar on it, although it's clearly audible, which just makes me all the more certain it's Taylor). Crosby's "Critical Mass", which serves as an intro to the title song, is magnificently arranged, bafflingly sophisticated, and beautiful--it's an a capella piece sung entirely by Crosby & Nash until the orchestra kicks in at the end; seemingly an outtake from Crosby's first solo album, it's kind of mind-blowing that Crosby's vocal parts had been recorded over 4 years before Nash got around to adding his.

As the liner notes for this 2000 reissue indicate, Crosby and Nash themselves hold this album in very high regard, and had incredibly good feelings about it as they were recording it. Indeed, with so much sumptuous, emotionally-wrenching material, "Wind on the Water" should be an indispensible part of any serious music lover's collection. December 20, 2006

An album that never gets old

When I listened this album first time I was twenty and now at fourty seven I felt the urge to buy it once again on CD. Being a sensitive individual on environmental issues, my favourite song in this album has always been the "The Wind On the Water". Any concious person has a lot to learn from this great album.
August 14, 2006

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