(1994) Crosby, Stills & Nash - After The Storm [FLAC] [DarkAngie]
Crosby, Stills & Nash - After The Storm (1994)
Review:
How cool is it that, twenty-five years on, Crosby, Stills & Nash can still carry on a meaningful musical dialogue with their audience? After all the reunions, alliances and solo ventures, After The Storm still manages to captivate. The three personalities shine through on the opening trio of songs–Stephen Stills the bucking bronco, Graham Nash the romantic rustic, David Crosby the social commentator–and occasionally afterward. If it sags some in the middle, shouldn’t it after all these years? The harmonies are where the three talents meet, a little tarnished by age but otherwise lovely. On the instrumental side, Stills takes the lead, alternating between acoustic and electric, with Nash and Crosby engaged only in spots. The backing band is made up of fine session players, including a potential second generation of CS&N in Christopher Stills (piano/guitar) and producer Glyn Johns’ son, Ethan. Written in the span since their last album together and recorded during the first half of 1994, After The Storm is half collaborative venture/half solo showcase. Crosby can be cut some slack if he seems to come up short, having just released his own disc (Thousand Roads) in 1993. Stills comes out swinging with the breezy “Only Waiting For You,” the Latin-based “Panama” (a fine song, but a strange choice to close with) and “Bad Boyz” (not as bad as it soundz). But Nash gets the better moments, from the sere “Find A Dream” (with its shades of Neil Young) to the lovely title track (my favorite song on here). Also included is a languid version of The Beatles’ “In My Life” that feels appropriate given the nostalgic mood that attends every new CS&N release. And, not to be left out, Crosby’s “Camera” came out great. After all their audience has been through with them, After The Storm is a timely reminder that the raining kings of harmony remain with us. — progrography
Track List:
01. Only Waiting For You
02. Find A Dream
03. Camera
04. Unequal Love
05. Till It Shines
06. It Won't Go Away
07. These Empty Days
08. In My Life
09. Street To Lean On
10. Bad Boyz
11. After The Storm
12. Panama
Media Report:
Genre: rock
Origin: USA
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits
Compression mode: Lossless
Writing library: libFLAC 1.3.0 (UTC 2013-05-26)
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