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Personnel: Stephen Stills (vocals, guitar, strings, horns, keyboards, percussion); Stephen Stills (guitars, bass guitar); Donnie Dacus (vocals, guitar, guitars, bottleneck guitar); George Terry (vocals, guitar, guitars); Rick Roberts (vocals, guitars); Kenny Passarelli, George "Chocolate" Perry (vocals, bass guitar); David Crosby, Lisa Roberts, Kitty Pritiken, Verna Richardson, Andy Gibb, Crosby & Nash (vocals); Gerry Tolman, Joey Murcia (guitar); Mike Lewis (strings, horns); Whitt Sidner, Whitt Sidner (flute); Jerry Aeillo, Paul "Blind Man" Harris, Jerry Aeillo, Mike Finnigan, Paul Harris (keyboards); Leland Sklar, Gerald Johnson (bass guitar); English Richie, Dallas Taylor (drums); Danny Kortchmar (vocals, guitar, percussion); Joe Vitale (vocals, drums); Claudia Lanier, Graham Nash, Howard Kaylan, Mark Volman, Betty White (vocals); Al Gould (fiddle); Kenny Kirkland, Albhy Galuten (keyboards); Tubby Zeigler, Richard O'Connell, Paul Lee , Russ Kunkel (drums); Joe Lala (percussion). Audio Mixers: Don Gehman; Alex Sadkin; Stephen Stills; Howard Albert; Ron Albert. Audio Remasterer: Andrew Thompson . Liner Note Author: John Tobler. Recording information: Caribou Ranch, CO; Criteria Studios, Miami, FL; Island Studios, London, England; Record Plant, Los Angeles, CA; Record Plant, Sausalito, CA. Photographers: Jim McCrary; Tom Zimmhoff; Billy Ray; Joel Bernstein. Arrangers: Bill Halverson; Stephen Stills. One of the less well-remembered sections of Stephen Stills' recording career is chronicled on this two-CD set from British reissue label BGO -- his three-LP stint at Columbia Records in the mid- to late `70s. When Stills signed to Columbia in 1975, he was coming off the record-breaking 1974 reunion tour of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Like a professional sports team signing a veteran free-agent player, Columbia seems to have thought it was contracting a major star who could mint gold records. That's the way it had worked several years earlier; in the wake of the first CSN&Y breakup in 1970, its individual members had all made gold-selling solo albums. What Columbia did not realize was that the second coming of the band, instead of serving as another springboard for each musician, instead produced an expectation in CSN&Y's audience that they would continue to come together and that what they did in their solo careers was just mark time until the next reunion. As ever, Neil Young was an exception to this rule, and David Crosby & Graham Nash as a duo, signing to ABC Records, showed that spinoffs could still sell if the label was aggressive in its promotion, going gold with Wind on the Water (September 1975) and Whistling Down the Wire (July 1976). At Columbia, however, Stills was expected to do the heavy lifting himself. He made a brave attempt with Stills (June 1975), his first album for the company. It was very much in the tradition of his previous solo albums Stephen Stills and Stephen Stills 2, featuring name guest stars including Crosby, Nash, Rick
