STEPHEN STILLS - 1970 UK ATLANTIC 1st PRESS - LAMINATED SLEEVE - NEAR MINT
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Oct 7, 2016 Sold Date
Sep 27, 2016 Start Date
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STEPHEN STILLS - 1970 UK ATLANTIC 1st PRESS - LAMINATED SLEEVE - NEAR MINT

STEPHEN STILLS
Stephen Stills

UK ATLANTIC DELUXE (2401 004) FIRST PRESSING (November 1970) OF STEPHEN STILLS' EPONYMOUS SOLO DEBUT
AN OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL COPY - PLAYS BEAUTIFULLY
THE ALBUM IS DEDICATED TO JIMI HENDRIX ("James Marshall Hendrix") WHO GUESTS ON LEAD GUITAR ON "Old Times Good Times" AND LAID DOWN THE TRACK JUST A FEW MONTHS BEFORE HIS UNTIMELY DEATH ON THE 18th SEPTEMBER 1970

PRESSED WITH THE FIRST ISSUE ATLANTIC RED/PLUM LABELS
MATRIX: 2401004 A?1 11 1 / 2401004 B//2//2 11 11
THE RECORD IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL FULLY LAMINATED COVER "Printed and made by the E. J. Day Group, London and Bedford"
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL POLY-LINED INNER SLEEVE - DATE CODED '0870' (August 1970)

Talk about understatement -- there's Stephen Stills on the cover, acoustic guitar in hand, promising a personal singer/songwriter-type statement. And there is some of that -- even a lot of that personal music-making -- on Stephen Stills, but it's all couched in astonishingly bold musical terms. Listening to this album four decades on, it's still a jaw-dropping experience.
The mix of folk, blues (acoustic and electric), hard rock, and gospel is seamless, and the musicianship and the singing are outstanding.
Recorded amid the breakup of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Stills' first solo album was his effort to put together his own sound and, not surprisingly, it's similar to a lot of stuff on the group's two albums. But it's also infinitely more personal, as well as harder and bluesier in many key spots; yet, it's every bit as soft and as lyrical as the group in other spots, and all laced with a degree of yearning and urgency that far outstrips virtually anything he did with the group.
"Love the One You're With," which started life as a phrase that Stills borrowed from Billy Preston at a party, is the song from this album that everybody knows, but it's actually one of the lesser cuts here -- not much more than a riff and an upbeat lyric and mood, albeit all of it infectious. "Do for the Others," by contrast, is one of the most moving pieces of music that Stills has ever been associated with, and "Church (Part of Someone)" showed him moving toward gospel and R&B (and good at it, too); and then there's "Old Times Good Times," musically as good a rock song as Stills has ever recorded (even if it borrows a bit from "Pre-Road Downs"), and featuring JIMI HENDRIX on lead guitar.
"Go Back Home" (which has ERIC CLAPTON on guitar) is fine a piece of bluesy hard rock, while "Sit Yourself Down" features superb singing by Stills and a six-person backing chorus (that includes Cass Elliot, Graham Nash, and David Crosby) around a great tune.
"To a Flame" is downright ethereal, while the live "Black Queen" is a superb piece of acoustic blues.
All of this is presented by Stills in the best singing voice of his career up to that point, bolder, more outgoing, and more powerful (a result of his contact with Doris Troy) than anything in his previous output. He also plays lots of instruments (à la Crosby, Stills & Nash, which is another reason it sounds so similar to the group in certain ways), though a bit more organ than guitar, thanks to the presence of HENDRIX and CLAPTON on two cuts.

Side 1:
Love The One You're With (3:03)
Do For The Others (2:52)
Church (Part Of Someone) (4:05)
Old Times Good Times (3:38)
Go Back Home (5:56)
Side 2:
Sit Yourself Down (3:05)
To A Flame (3:10)
Black Queen (5:28)
Cherokee (3:24)
We Are Not Helpless (4:17)

LABELS: NEAR MINT
Clean, unmarked labels which carry light spindle traces
VINYL Visual: EXCELLENT+
Both surfaces shine like new with nothing but some harmless wispy hairlines under bright light
VINYL Audio: NEAR MINT
Great sound - deep, rich, warm and finely detailed and my play-check at volume found no issues of note - plays beautifully from start to finish
SLEEVE: EXCELLENT+
Clean, unmarked, sharp and fresh with a deep gloss to the laminate and unworn edges and spine - all spine text is clear and bold

POST & PACKING:
A PROTECTIVE POLY SLEEVE, NEW ANTI-STATIC INNER, QUALITY BOX (NOT ENVELOPE) MAILER AND AMPLE STIFFENERS ARE ALWAYS USED TO ENSURE THAT YOUR RECORD ARRIVES SAFELY
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INTERNATIONAL: Airmail: £17.00 (International Signed For delivery)

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