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Sessions for this album featured backing from notable guests Dave Mason and members of The Grateful Dead Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh and Bill Kreutzmann. Most of the musical support came from The Section, consisting of Craig Doerge, Danny Kortchmar, Leland Sklar, and Russell Kunkel. This quartet would be in-demand session musicians on the West Coast in the 1970s, appearing on dozens of albums, notably those by James Taylor, Carole King, and Jackson Browne. They would continue to work with Crosby & Nash for the remainder of the decade, both in the studio and on tour.
The songs continued the qualities that marked the pair's work with the larger aggregate, with Nash writing tighter pop songs including the album's hit, and Crosby exploring mood pieces and introspection, all amidst the duo's usual vocal harmonies. The commercial success of this album equaled, if not surpassed a bit, that of the pair's two solo albums of the previous year, although it would not be until after the second break-up of CSNY following their 1974 tour that Crosby and Nash would sign an album contract as a unit with ABC Records.
This album was remastered for compact disc in 1998 as part of the Atlantic Original Sound series, 50 titles reissued in Europe to celebrate Atlantic Records' fiftieth anniversary. It is currently out of print, and American reissues still around use first generation digital remastering from the 1980s.
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