If I Could Only Remember My Name
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| Studio album by David Crosby | ||||
| Released | February 22, 1971 | |||
| Recorded | 1970–1971 | |||
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Wally Heiders San Francisco, CA |
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| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 37:04 | |||
| Label | Atlantic | |||
| Producer | David Crosby | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   |
| Robert Christgau | D− |
| Okayplayer | (99/100) |
| Rolling Stone |  |
If I Could Only Remember My Name is the debut solo album by David Crosby, released in February 1971 on Atlantic Records. It was one of four high-profile albums released by each member of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young in the wake of their chart-topping Déjà Vu album (along with Stephen Stills, Songs for Beginners, and After the Gold Rush). It peaked at #12 on the Billboard 200 and earned a RIAA gold certification for selling over 500,000 copies in the United States.
Widely regarded as a cult classic, the album gained new recognition in 2010 when it was listed second on the Vatican's "Top 10 Pop Albums of All Time" as published in the official newspaper of the Holy See, L'Osservatore Romano.
Many prominent musicians of that era appear on the record, including Nash, Young, Joni Mitchell, members of the Grateful Dead (most notably Jerry Garcia, who helped to arrange and produce the album), Jefferson Airplane, and Santana. The ensemble was given the informal moniker of The Planet Earth Rock and Roll Orchestra by Jefferson Airplane bandleader, longtime Crosby associate and fellow science fiction fan Paul Kantner; the core of this agglomeration (including recording engineer Stephen Barncard) also worked on Kantner's Blows Against the Empire (1970) and the Grateful Dead's American Beauty (1970), both recorded concurrently with Crosby's album at San Francisco's Wally Heider Studios. The album also features the only (albeit unspecified) recorded appearance of David Crosby's elder brother, reclusive folksinger Ethan Crosby.
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