Stephen Stills
About
Stephen Stills
Legendary guitarist/singer-songwriter Stephen Stills is one of the most influential and enduring figures in rock and roll. The only artist ever to be inducted twice in the same night into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame—for The Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills & Nash—Stills’ work spans five decades, four iconic groups (Manassas and CSNY in addition to the two already mentioned), two bonafide anthems—“For What It’s Worth” and “Love The One You’re With”--and a rich canon of solo material.Forty-one years gone from his landmark 1966 Buffalo Springfield major label recording debut, Stills’ latest, the solo opus Man Alive!, finds this resilient artist’s playing as masterful as ever and his signature vocals richly mellowed with time. Rolling Stone editor David Wild called the disc “the sort of assured album that can stand alongside Stills’ best early solo albums and his work with Manassas. Tracks like the rousing opener, “Ain't It Always,” and the bluesy “Wounded World”…recall past classics.” The latter track speaks to Stills’ lifelong passion for the blues.
Man Alive! continues the illustrious legacy of inspired solo work Stills launched with 1970’s Stephen Stills, of which allmusic.com’s Bruce Eder wrote, “listening to this album three decades on, it’s still a jaw-dropping experience, the musical equal to Crosby, Stills & Nash or Déjà Vu, and only a shade less important than either of them.” Featuring a little help from all-star musical friends Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Rita Coolidge and others, the disc delivered the stone-cold Stills classic “Love The One You’re With,” one of the most important solo hits from any CSNY member.
Together with any number of fellow artists, or in the solo spotlight, Stephen Stills has continued to break musical ground with an extraordinary career. Of his latest, Man Alive!, Stills reflects on having saved up his songs for a decade instead of giving them away to others, saying, “I basically went after making the best Stephen Stills record possible.” It’s worth the wait.
Past Events
14
Jul
2007
21:15
The Commodore Ballroom
