4 Way Street
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| Live album by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young | ||||
| Released | April 7, 1971 (original) June 15, 1992 (expanded) |
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| Recorded | June 2–July 5, 1970, New York, Chicago & Los Angeles | |||
| Genre | Rock, folk rock | |||
| Length | 76:35 (original) 109:35 (expanded) |
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| Label | Atlantic | |||
| Producer | David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, Neil Young | |||
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| Robert Christgau | B− |
4 Way Street is the third album by Crosby, Stills & Nash, their second as Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and their first live album. It was originally released as Atlantic Records SD-2-902, shipping as a gold record and peaking at #1 on the Billboard 200. A document of their tour from the previous year, the live recordings presented were taken from shows at The Fillmore East, New York on June 2 through June 7, 1970; The Forum, Los Angeles on June 26 through June 28, 1970; and The Chicago Auditorium, Chicago, on July 5, 1970.
At the time this album was recorded, tensions between the band members were high, with their dressing-room fights becoming the stuff of rock legend, even being referenced by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention in their 1971 LP Fillmore East - June 1971. The tensions led to CSNY dissolving shortly after the recording of 4 Way Street; they would reconvene for a stadium tour in the summer of 1974. The next release of new studio material by the group proper would not be until the CSN album of 1977, without Neil Young.
The original double album LP came packaged in a gatefold sleeve without a track listing. On the gatefold was a black-and-white picture of the band sitting on a bench, with the heads of Graham Nash and David Crosby perfectly framed by a wire clothes hanger hanging in front of them, with recording information and credits in the lower-right-hand corner. The only track listings appear on the album's labels and on the fold-out poster that also included full lyrics.
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