Crosby, Stills, and Nash - Melody (2 LP) (1978)

 

Side A: Graham Nash
1. Grave Concern
2. You'll Never Be the Same

3. Oh! Camil (The Winter Soldier)

4. On the Line

5. Another Sleep Song

Side B: Stephen Stills
6. Turn Back the Pages

7. In the Way

8. Shuffle Just as Bad

9. Cold Cold World

Side C: Crosby and Nash
10. Take the Money and Run

11. Low Down Payment

12. Fieldworker
13. Love Work Out

Side D: Crosby and Nash
14. Spotlight

15. J.B.'s Blues

16. Foolish Man

17. Out of the Darkness

Similar to the Volume 4½ album by the Traveling Wilburys, I felt like I had so much material I could go through that I could make a second album. Not only do we have solo albums from three of the four members, we also have the band split up into a dichotomy of sorts with David Crosby and Graham Nash getting together to form Crosby and Nash who had three albums but we'll use two of them, and Stephen Stills and Neil Young getting together to form The Stills-Young Band. 

When David Crosby and Graham Nash released their album Wind on the Water in 1975, it was their second album but it was also their first in a three album deal with ABC Records. So they released their third album in 1976 and their fourth album in 2002! How did it take them 27 years to finish their contract? Well after recording the third album, they got back together with Stephen Stills and released a new fourth CSN album instead of Human Highway. But when they released their fourth album in 2002, it was a double album! I didn't include Neil on this one cause I mostly used up the tracks from the Stills-Young Band album and he also had a bunch of solo albums around this time that would've been too much to listen to so I mostly focused on four albums.

Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young - Human Highway (2 LP) (1976)

 

Side A:
1. And So It Goes - Graham Nash

2. Black Coral - Stephen Stills

3. Homeward Through the Haze - David Crosby

4. Human Highway - Neil Young

5. Long May You Run - Neil Young

Side B:
6. Midnight on the Bay - Neil Young

7. Ocean Girl - Neil Young

8. Prison Song - Graham Nash

9. See the Changes - Stephen Stills

10. Taken at All - Graham Nash

11. Through My Sails - Neil Young

Side C:
12. As I Come of Age - Stephen Stills

13. Carry Me - David Crosby 

14. Different Tongues - Stephen Stills

15. Let It Shine - Neil Young

16. Love/Art Blues - Neil Young

17. Mutiny - Graham Nash

Side D:
18. My Favorite Changes - Stephen Stills

19. New Mama - Stephen Stills

20. Separate Ways - Neil Young

21. Time After Time - David Crosby

22. Traces - Neil Young

23. Wind on the Water - Graham Nash

Human Highway was intended to be the band's third album after Deja Vu in 1970. However due to conflicts between the band members’ "schedules", the album was worked on between 1973 and 1976 but never came out and the band's third album wouldn't be released till 1977. Graham Nash stated that the album was always intended as a single album of ten tracks, but in that time many of the songs from the sessions would later get released on their solo albums. 

But the odd thing is that although the band got together many times during this period to work on the album, they also split into a dichotomy of sorts. David Crosby and Graham Nash got together to form Crosby and Nash and Stephen Stills and Neil Young got together to form The Stills-Young Band. Although Crosby and Nash put out three albums around this time, The Stills-Young Band only put out one but it was the closest album to being a reunion around this time. 

There was an initial track list of ten tracks for the album, but I included another track called Prison Song by Graham Nash cause it was said that a full band version of the song existed. There was also a list of songs from bandmates' solo albums that were written around this time so I used that to form the second record. But a couple of the songs I had to take out for being written around this time but recorded afterwards such as Graham Nash's song It's All Right from Earth and Sky. 

Some notable songs include the title track for which I'm using a version recorded in 1977 but versions from 1976 exist, as well as an alternate version of See the Changes from their CSN album but released on their CSN box set, and Stephen Stills' version of a song which Neil wrote. I also don't usually list the tracks alphabetically but I liked the flow of it this way.