2-panel poster/lyric insert included. Vinyl plays with occasional crackles (play-graded). Matte gate-fold cover looks great, no scuffing and a few discoloration spots (front/back/inner-gate). Inner-sleeve is generic white. Spine has no text and shows mild wear. Minor shelf-wear along top/bottom-edge and corners. Opening is crisp with signs of light use and divots. "CP" suffix in matrix on label. Slight musty smell. (Not a cut-out.)
Crosby, Stills & Nash, the first album by Crosby, Stills & Nash, spawned two Top 40 hits, Marrakesh Express and Suite: Judy Blue Eyes, which peaked respectively at No. 28 the week of August 23, 1969, and at No. 21 the week of October 25, 1969, on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. The album itself peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart. The album was a very strong debut for the band, instantly lifting them to stardom and helped initiate a sea change in popular music away from the ruling late sixties aesthetic of bands playing blues-based rock music on loud guitars. Crosby, Stills & Nash presented a new wrinkle in building upon rock's roots, utilizing folk, blues, and even jazz without specifically sounding like mere duplication. Not only blending voices, the three meshed their differing strengths, Crosby for social commentary and atmospheric mood pieces, Stills for his diverse musical skills and for folding folk and country elements subtly into complex rock structures, and Nash for his radio-friendly pop melodies, to create an amalgam of broad appeal. Eventually going multi-platinum, in addition to the above mentioned singles, Crosby, Stills & Nash features some of the best known songs in Wooden Ships and Helplessly Hoping. Suite: Judy Blue Eyes was composed for Judy Collins, and Long Time Gone was a response to the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. This album proved very influential on many levels to the dominant popular music scene in America for much of the 1970s. The success of the album generated gravitas for the group within the industry Strong sales, combined with the group's emphasis on personal confession in its writing, paved the way for the success of the singer-songwriter movement of the early seventies.