Rhino has announced a live album from Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. The new release, Live at the Fillmore East, 1969captures the band's performance at New York's Fillmore East. The performance took place on Saturday 20 September 1969 and a multi-track recording was recently discovered. Stephen Stills and Neil Young, working with John Hanlon at Sunset Sound in Hollywood, California, assembled and mixed the original eight-track concert recordings into the new album. Listen to his live version below Crosby, Stills & Nashof “Helplessly Hoping.”
Live at the Fillmore East, 1969 contains an acoustic portion—featuring renditions of Helplessly Hoping, The Beatles' “Blackbird,” Buffalo Springfield's “On the Way Home” and “Broken Arrow,” Déjà Vu's “4 + 20” and more—and a smaller electric portion with “Sea of Madness”, “Down by the River” and many more.
In a statement, Graham Nash said: “Listening to the music again after all these years, I can tell how much we loved each other and loved the music we made. We were four people having fun with the different sounds we made, singing quietly together on one side, and then rocking out for the rest of the concert.”
Live at the Fillmore East, 1969 will be released on October 25th. It marks the band's first archival release since David Crosby died in January 2023 aged 81.
Read Sam Sodomsky's “David Crosby's Never-Ending Song” on the field.
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Live at the Fillmore East, 1969 (2024 Mix):
01 Suite: Judy Blue Eyes (Live at Fillmore East, 1969) (2024 Mix)
02 Blackbird (Live at the Fillmore East, 1969) (2024 Mix)
03 Helplessly Hoping (Live at Fillmore East, 1969) (2024 Mix)
04 Guinnevere (Live at the Fillmore East, 1969) (2024 Mix)
05 Lady of the Island (Live at the Fillmore East, 1969) (2024 Mix)
06 Go Back Home (Live at Fillmore East, 1969) (2024 Mix)
07 On the Way Home (Live at the Fillmore East, 1969) (2024 Mix)
08 4 + 20 (Live at the Fillmore East, 1969) (2024 Mix)
09 Our House (Live at Fillmore East, 1969) (2024 Mix)
10 I've Loved Her So Long (Live at Fillmore East, 1969) (2024 Mix)
11 You Don't Have to Cry (Live at Fillmore East, 1969) (2024 Mix)
12 Long Time Gone (Live at Fillmore East, 1969) (2024 Mix)
13 Wooden Ships (Live at Fillmore East, 1969) (2024 Mix)
14 Bluebird Revisited (2024 Mix)
15 Sea of Madness (Live at Fillmore East, 1969) (2024 Mix)
16 Down by the River (Live at Fillmore East, 1969) (2024 Mix)
17 Find the Cost of Freedom (Live at Fillmore East, 1969) (2024 Mix)