Oil Well Bootlegs - RSC CD: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Long time gone

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Long Time Gone
Oil Well RSC 095 CD

1 Helplessly Hoping
2 Guenivere
3 Lady Of The Island
4 Birds
5 4 + 20
6 You Don't Have To Cry
7 World In Changes
8 Only You Know And I Know
9 Suite: Judy Blue Eyes

Note:
All songs by Stephen Stills unless noted
~~Live Big Sur, CA - September 1, 1969 - Vol.1~~

Tracks 1-8 recorded on September 13th 1969 at Big Sur Folk Festival, Monterey, CA,
Track 9 recorded on September 14th 1969 at Big Sur Folk Festival, Monterey, 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

Dave Mason - Guitar on "Only You Know And I Know".

This bootleg is a clone of: Big Sur Folk Festival September '69 CD1 - MM 9112/13
Oil Well version has a fine cover, fine quality. Limited to 200 copies only. Due to its rarity and good quality, this disc is recommended. This is an excellent concert recorded about a month after Woodstock. It blows their Woodstock appearance away, this is an awesome performance from Stills and Young. Great performance from Dave Mason with the band on Only You Know And I Know.

This recording is just part of a music festival that included Joni Mitchell, and Joan Baez. It took place in beautiful Big Sur on a bluff overlooking the ocean. The stage was set up in front of a swimming pool and the crowd looked acoss the pool to the stage with the Pacific Ocean as the background. The recording has some unusual moments with crowd participation, where there is a heckler and then some children who are heard. It gives it a unique feel and is an interesting document of the late 60s. Ex Traffic Dave Mason's apearance makes this concert unique. Just thinking of Big Sur brings back fond memories of the years I spent living on the Cental Coast of California just south of Big Sur. Beautiful does not even describe this area where you have a combination of cliffs meeting the ocean, the groves of costal redwoods, the Big Sur River, and secluded beaches and coves.
On the front cover Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young and Taylor. Very Good audience recording.

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Sixth Big Sur Folk Festival
Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, John Sebastian, Johanna Demetrakas Dorothy Morrison & the Edwin Hawkins Singers, Mimi Fariña, Julie Payne, Ruthann Friedman
Carol Ann Cisneros, The Comb Sisters, Chris Ethridge, Flying Burrito Brothers, Struggle Mountain Resistance Band. The Big Sur Folk Festival, held from 1964 to 1971 in California, was an informal gathering of prominent and emerging folk artists from across the United States. Nancy Carlen was working at the Esalen Institute when Joan Baez was asked to lead workshops on music. Carlen was a good friend of Baez, and they decided to invite other artists, which turned into the first festival.

Baez performed at all seven events. Well-known acts included Joni Mitchell, Judy Collins, the Beach Boys, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Country Joe McDonald, John Sebastian, Kris Kristofferson, Arlo Guthrie, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Taj Mahal, Dorothy Morrison with the Edwin Hawkins Singers, and Julie Payne. All of the artists were paid union scale, about $50.[1] The audience paid $3.50 to $5.50, depending on the year. All proceeds benefitted Baez's Institute for the Study of Nonviolence.

Carlen intended it to be a friendly and low-key event that allowed artists to relax after their long summer concert series. It was held except for one year in front of the pool at the Esalen Institute on the Big Sur coast. The second-to-last year was held at the Monterey County Fairgrounds. Carlen purposefully kept advertising to a minimum to help keep crowds small. Richard and Mimi Fariña performed for the first time at the festival, which led to a recording contract.

At the September 1969 festival, a documentary film was made. Celebration at Big Sur featured many performers who had played only four weeks earlier at Woodstock from August 15–18. The festival was later considered by some as the antithesis of the commercial Woodstock, but it was originally seen by the artists an antidote to the Newport Folk Festival.

CSN&Y a biography
Steve Stills, once the brain behind Buffalo Springfield, spent the late 1960s obsessed with the concept of the "supergroup": first he recorded the Supersession with Al Kooper and Mike Bloomfield, and then he recruited David Crosby (the former Byrds) and Graham Nash (the former Hollies) to form what will become the epitome of the supergroup in the 1970s. Crosby Stills & Nash (Atlantic, may 1969) sounds like the laid-back, atmospheric and slightly psychedelic version of what the three had done with their respective bands. Stills' Suite Judy Blue Eyes (1969), Crosby's Guinivere and, best of all, Nash's Marrakesh Express displayed gorgeous vocal harmonies and crystal-clear guitar work.

For the following album, Dejavu` (Atlantic, march 1970), the trio added Neil Young (also a former Buffalo Springfield member) and Young's Country Girl is easily the centerpiece. The others also get carried way, with Stills penning three of his classics (Carry On, 4+20 , Everybody I Love You), Crosby delivering three post-hippie manifestos (Almost Cut My Hair, Dejavu`, Shadow Captain), and Nash indulging in his soulful beat (Teach Your Children, Our House). The album was followed by the single containing Young's vehement political sermon Ohio and by a double live album, Four Way Street (Atlantic, 1971), that was mainly notable for the extended guitar jams. This supergroup had virtually invented a new genre, the sunny, melancholy, thoughtful country/blues/soul that will be called "West Coast sound".

In the meantime Stills had also started a solo career. Stephen Stills (Atlantic, 1970), with Love The One You're With and It Doesn't Matter, took advantage of guests Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton and David Crosby, but Stephen Stills 2 (Atlantic, 1971) has little to commend itself (Change Partners).
There followed another ambitious project, this time involving Chris Hillman of the Flying Burrito Bros: Manassas. This band played more straightforward and traditional blues-tinged country-rock on Manassas (1972), a veritable encyclopedia of American music, and Down the Road (1973), but Hillman soon left to join Poco's Ritchie Furay. Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young recorded Human Highway (1974), but the album was never released.