Looking Forward

Studio album by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

Released

October 26, 1999

Recorded

1996 - 1999

Genre

Folk rock

Length

53:17

Label

Reprise

Producer

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Joe Vitale, Ben Keith, Stanley Johnston

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young chronology

After the Storm
(1998)

Looking Forward
(1999)

Greatest Hits
(2005)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic
Robert Christgau	(C)
The Music Box

Looking Forward is the third and final studio album by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (CSNY). It is the eighth studio album when CSNY's albums are conflated with those by the trio of Crosby, Stills & Nash. It was released on Reprise Records in 1999, peaked at #26 on the Billboard 200 with total sales nearing 400,000. It is currently out of print, although it is available on Spotify.

Crosby, Stills & Nash toured extensively through the 1990s, playing almost as many shows as they had in the previous decades combined. Since their previous album, no new solo albums were forthcoming from Stephen Stills or Graham Nash, but David Crosby had discovered his adult son James Raymond, the two starting a band with Jeff Pevar yielding an album in 1998. However, the band's relationship with Atlantic Records had soured, partly over a lack of push for After the Storm, but mostly over the perception that the label now had very little interest in the group when they had made the company millions during the 1970s heyday. They terminated their contract with Atlantic in 1997, and began to record CSN tracks out of pocket without a record deal. Working with Stills to compile the Buffalo Springfield retrospective box set, Neil Young became intrigued with these CSN sessions. Playing on some tracks in process, Young brought in three recordings he had earmarked for one of his own albums, "Looking Forward," "Slowpoke," and "Out of Control." The possibility of a new CSNY album attracted the attention of Young's label Reprise Records, which duly released the album once completed.

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