Carry On

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young from their amazing 1970 album Déjà Vu. I didn't realize, until investigating the song for this entry, that the band had adapted the song from an earlier Stephen Stills tune with Buffalo Springfield. Many of the lyrics are the same, but the melody and harmonies are significantly different. Really cool to hear the original song!

Artist: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Year: 1970
Rating: Luke Hot

Lotta Love

You know I need relating, not solitude. Yep.

...and one of the rockinest flute solos to the light side of Jethro Tull.

Artist: Nicolette Larson
Year: 1978
Rating: Warm

Note: I didn't realize this was a Neil Young song! Wow! Now that I'm hearing it, the phrasing and octave change on the verses are distinctively so.

Another note: Sadly, Nicolette Larson died in 1997, at age 45, from liver failure. Rest in peace, NL.

Sweet Home Alabama

Fascinating that I'd get a notoriously racist song into my head (though this interpretation is up for debate) following a song that helped break down barriers of racism in popular culture and the music industry.

Artist: Lynyrd Skynyrd
Year: 1974
Rating: Warm

Just a Song Before I Go

Lovely ballad from CSN (sans Y). I actually had another Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young song in my head a couple days ago ("Carry On," from their amazing album, Déjà Vu) but couldn't find a good web link for it, and I don't own it anymore, let alone in digital format. I'll post it later on if I can download it.

Here's to one of the first and ultimate supergroups, forever in rotation on the jukebox of my psyche.

Artist: Crosby, Stills, and Nash
Year: 1977
Rating: Luke Hot