Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Bluebird Revisited Oil Well - RSC 094

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Bluebird Revisited
Oil Well - RSC 094

1 Pre Road Downs 4:25
2 Long Time Gone 5:33
3 Bluebird Revisited 5:02
4 Sea Of Madness One & Two 5:22
5 Wooden Ship 8:24
6 Down By The River 15:06

Note
All songs by Steohen Stills unless noted
Live in Big Sur,CA - September 1, 1969 - Vol.2 

Tracks 1-4 recorded on September 14, 1969 at Big Sur Folk Festival, Esalen Institute - Big Sur, CA
Tracks 5-6 recorded on September 13, 1969 at Big Sur Folk Festival, Esalen Institute - Big Sur, CA

Lineup:
David Crosby - Guitar, Vocals
Stephen Stills - Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals
Graham Nash - Guitar, Organ, Vocals
Neil Young - Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals
Greg Reeves - Bass
Dallas Taylor - Drums

This bootleg is a clone of: Big Sur Folk Festival September '69 CD2 - MM 9112/13
Excellent concert...recorded about a month after Woodstock.
Blows their Woodstock appearance away. Awesome performance from Stills and Young.
On the front cover Crosby, Nash & Young performing live during a concert.
The best quality version from Italian bootleg CDs "Long time gone" (Oil Well RSC CD 094, 1995) and "Bluebird revisited" (Oil Well RSC CD 095, 1995)
Very Good audience recording.

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1969 Big Sur Folk Festival

A musical documentary of the 1969 Big Sur Folk Festival, filmed in a chaotic style reminiscent of Woodstock. It features performances by Joan Baez, John Sebastian, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and the Combs Sisters. Some of the finest folk singers and musicians in the world positioned themselves on the edge of some of America's most glorious scenery for a farewell to summer and a celebration of nonviolence in mid-September. It was the sixth annual Big Sur Folk Festival. The festival, held on the tree-shaded lawns of Esalen, also differed from other recent celebrations in that here the "scene" did not eclipse the music, but merely served as a complement. According to its producers, Nancy Carlen and Paula Kates, Big Sur was designed as a "performers festival," an opportunity for artists to come together after a hectic summer on the festival circuit for some peace and solitude. Crosby Stills Nash and Young played the final set, as on Saturday, repeatedly bringing the thinning crowd to it's feet. For a finale - with the audience pushed forward around the pool, closer to the performers now - everyone at the festival reprised "Oh Happy Day".

The film 'Celebration at Big Sur', was made about the festival, which featured many performers who had played at Woodstock a few weeks earlier. Released in 1971, the film was directed by Baird Bryant and Johanna Demetrakas. A young Gary Weis was among the cinematographers. Other members of the camera and sound crew also went on to become famous in their fields, including Peter Smokler, Peter Pilafian and Joan Churchill. The film was released in 2011 as a Region 1 DVD. The Los Angeles Herald Examiner reported that the performers donated their time for the concert and film in exchange for a portion of the net profits. The Daily Variety reported in April 1970 that the film's profits were divided between the Big Sur Folk Festival Foundation (88%) and the crew (12%). Another source reported that Baez' Institute for the Study of Nonviolence benefited from the film's profits.

About 10-15,000 people camped out for three miles up and down Highway One for the two-day festival. The event audience was so well-mannered that those without the $4.00 admission price listened from the highway, even though there was no gate. The artists performed on a low stage behind a pool, backed by the Pacific Ocean. Musical performances dominate the film, with footage of surrounding occurrences interspersed and montaged into the music sequences.

The film

The film includes early footage of Neil Young, who had recently appeared at Woodstock with Crosby, Stills & Nash, but refused to be filmed. Here, fortified by session drummer Dallas Taylor and Motown bassist Greg Reeves, CSNY perform Young's "Sea of Madness" and "Down by the River". Perhaps the film's most famous scene is an altercation between Stephen Stills and a heckler.

Joni Mitchell, who did not appear at the Woodstock Festival, performs the song "Woodstock" prior to any album release, first attempting to teach the audience to sing the melodically complicated refrain. Ironically, Mitchell would later develop a well-known distaste for festival gigs, but in this performance her enthusiasm is evident. Mitchell talks about having spotted whales off the coast, and is generally seen with then-boyfriend Graham Nash of CSNY. She also sings "Get Together" with members of Crosby, Stills & Nash in a seemingly impromptu jam.

Joan Baez was a Big Sur-festival regular whose folk-music workshop at Esalen in 1965 helped attract pop/rock acts later to the festival. She is featured prominently throughout the film. Celebration begins with Baez opening the festival with Bob Dylan's "I Shall Be Released" and closes with her leading a large crowd in singing "Oh Happy Day" in the event's finale. She also sings two of her own compositions, "A Song for David" and "Sweet Sir Galahad", during the course of the film.

Other performers featured in Celebration included John Sebastian, Dorothy Combs Morrison and The Combs Sisters, Mimi Fariña, Carol Ann Cisneros, Julie Payne, Chris Ethridge and The Struggle Mountain Resistance Band. While Ruthann Friedman, The Flying Burrito Brothers and The Incredible String Band performed at this event, they do not appear in the film.

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