Rhino has announced a live album from Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. The new release, Live at Fillmore East, 1969, captures the band’s performance at New York’s Fillmore East. The show took place on Saturday, September 20, 1969, and a multi-track recording of it was newly unearthed. Stephen Stills and Neil Young, working with John Hanlon, at Sunset Sound, in Hollywood, California, compiled and mixed the original eight-track concert recordings into the new album. Below, listen to a live version of Crosby, Stills & Nash’s “Helplessly Hoping.”
Live at Fillmore East, 1969 contains an acoustic portion—featuring performances 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 shorter electric portion featuring “Sea of Madness,” “Down by the River,” and more.
In a statement, Graham Nash said, “Hearing the music again after all these years, I can tell how much we loved each other and loved the music that we were creating. We were four people reveling in the different sounds we were producing, quietly singing together on the one hand, then rocking like fuck for the rest of the concert.”
Live at Fillmore East, 1969 will get released on October 25. It marks the first archival release from the band since David Crosby died, in January 2023, at the age of 81.
Read Sam Sodomsky’s “David Crosby’s Never-Ending Song” on the Pitch.
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Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: Live at Fillmore East, 1969 (2024 Mix)
Live at Fillmore East, 1969 (2024 Mix):
01 Suite: Judy Blue Eyes (Live at Fillmore East, 1969) (2024 Mix)
02 Blackbird (Live at Fillmore East, 1969) (2024 Mix)
03 Helplessly Hoping (Live at Fillmore East, 1969) (2024 Mix)
04 Guinnevere (Live at Fillmore East, 1969) (2024 Mix)
05 Lady of the Island (Live at Fillmore East, 1969) (2024 Mix)
06 Go Back Home (Live at Fillmore East, 1969) (2024 Mix)
07 On the Way Home (Live at Fillmore East, 1969) (2024 Mix)
08 4 + 20 (Live at 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)
