reel-to-reel album cover
album cover photo by Henry Diltz
photo of album cover by Styrous®
In addition to my vinyl collection I'm selling, I have hundreds of
reel-to-reel, pre-recorded tapes I'm selling. This is an entry about one of them that was for sale on eBay (see link below for others). I have the vinyl LP version as
well. Interested? Contact me by email, please, not by a comment.
Stephen Stills 2
reel-to-reel album cover back
photo by Styrous®
Released on June 30, 1971, Stephen Stills 2 is the second solo album by Stephen Stills. In spite of the impressive personnel, Jerry Garcia, Nils Lofgren, Eric Clapton, David Crosby, Ringo Starr (that's right, of The Beatles) and many others (see listing below), it was not a successful album.
The songs are good, perhaps not great (with the exception of Know You Got to Run), but good and enjoyable.
A truly GREAT song, Know You Got to Run, with it's Appalachian, blue-grass feeling banjo, is my favorite tune on the album and one of my all-time favorites. It is quiet, a bit sad and regretful but it has a hushed beauty I dearly love. Be sure to listen to it (lyrics & link to it on YouTube below).
Change Partners, with it's intermittent, waltz beat, has an almost country feel to it. Fishes and Scorpions is a mellow sort of song and Eric Clapton plays lead and backing guitars on the tune which rocks out from time to time. Sugar Babe is a nice, gently bouncy love song.
Near the bottom of this post there are links to the songs mentioned on YouTube so you can hear them for yourself, if you'd like.
Stills became the first person to be inducted twice on the same night into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for his work with CSN and Buffalo Springfield.
The songs are good, perhaps not great (with the exception of Know You Got to Run), but good and enjoyable.
A truly GREAT song, Know You Got to Run, with it's Appalachian, blue-grass feeling banjo, is my favorite tune on the album and one of my all-time favorites. It is quiet, a bit sad and regretful but it has a hushed beauty I dearly love. Be sure to listen to it (lyrics & link to it on YouTube below).
Change Partners, with it's intermittent, waltz beat, has an almost country feel to it. Fishes and Scorpions is a mellow sort of song and Eric Clapton plays lead and backing guitars on the tune which rocks out from time to time. Sugar Babe is a nice, gently bouncy love song.
Near the bottom of this post there are links to the songs mentioned on YouTube so you can hear them for yourself, if you'd like.
Stills became the first person to be inducted twice on the same night into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for his work with CSN and Buffalo Springfield.
Stephen Stills 2
reel-to-reel in box
photo by Styrous®
Know You Got to Run Lyrics
Know you got to run
Know you got to hide
Don't know who to follow
Who is on your side?
Don't know where you're going
You won't talk of where you've been
And I may see you tomorrow
Nevermore again
Seen you in the city
Seen you on the road
Your face is all a twisted
'Cause your brain's a heavy load
Then you turn and ask me
How did I ever know
Talk about your searchin'
Well I think it's all for show
Heard your mournful song
Heard your baleful cry
Seen the light of hunger
Lingering deep within your eyes
Talk about your sinkin'
What a hole you're in
You expect for me to love you
When you hate yourself my friend
And you got yourself a potion
For to keep you from your sleep
In the dark and lonely hour
I heard you laugh and weep
You'll always be runnin'
'Til you find your doom
Never face your lonely soul
Never face the gloom
Know you got to run
Know you got to hide
Don't know who to follow
Who is on your side?
Don't know where you're going
You won't talk of where you've been
And I may see you tomorrow
Nevermore again
Songwriters:
Stephen Stills/John Hopkins
Published by
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Know you got to run
Know you got to hide
Don't know who to follow
Who is on your side?
Don't know where you're going
You won't talk of where you've been
And I may see you tomorrow
Nevermore again
Seen you in the city
Seen you on the road
Your face is all a twisted
'Cause your brain's a heavy load
Then you turn and ask me
How did I ever know
Talk about your searchin'
Well I think it's all for show
Heard your mournful song
Heard your baleful cry
Seen the light of hunger
Lingering deep within your eyes
Talk about your sinkin'
What a hole you're in
You expect for me to love you
When you hate yourself my friend
And you got yourself a potion
For to keep you from your sleep
In the dark and lonely hour
I heard you laugh and weep
You'll always be runnin'
'Til you find your doom
Never face your lonely soul
Never face the gloom
Know you got to run
Know you got to hide
Don't know who to follow
Who is on your side?
Don't know where you're going
You won't talk of where you've been
And I may see you tomorrow
Nevermore again
Songwriters:
Stephen Stills/John Hopkins
Published by
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Track listing
All songs written by Stephen Stills unless otherwise noted.
Side 1
1. Change Partners – 3:13
2. Nothin' To Do But Today – 2:40
3. Fishes and Scorpions – 3:13
4. Sugar Babe – 4:04
5. Know You Got to Run (Stills, John Hopkins) – 3:50
6. Open Secret – 5:00
Side 2
1. Relaxing Town – 2:20
2. Singin' Call – 3:01
3. Ecology Song – 3:22
4. Word Game – 4:13
5. Marianne – 2:27
6. Bluebird Revisited – 5:23
All songs written by Stephen Stills unless otherwise noted.
Side 1
1. Change Partners – 3:13
2. Nothin' To Do But Today – 2:40
3. Fishes and Scorpions – 3:13
4. Sugar Babe – 4:04
5. Know You Got to Run (Stills, John Hopkins) – 3:50
6. Open Secret – 5:00
Side 2
1. Relaxing Town – 2:20
2. Singin' Call – 3:01
3. Ecology Song – 3:22
4. Word Game – 4:13
5. Marianne – 2:27
6. Bluebird Revisited – 5:23
Personnel
- Bass - Calvin "Fuzzy" Samuels, Stephen Stills
- Congas - Gaspar Lawrawal, Rocky Dijon
- Drums - Conrad Isidore, Dallas Taylor, "English Richie" (Ringo Starr)
- Guitar - Eric Clapton (on Fishes And Scorpions), Nils Lofgren, Stephen Stills
- Keyboards - Billy Preston, Mac Rebennack, Nils Lofgren, Paul Harris, Stephen Stills
- Saxophone [Baritone] - Floyd Newman, James Mitchell
- Saxophone [Tenor] - Andrew Love, Ed Logan, Sidney George
- Trombone - Jack Helm
- Trumpet - Roger Hopps, Wayne Jackson
- Vocals - David Crosby, Fearless Freddy, Henry Diltz, Nils Lofgren, Stephen Stills
- Pedal steel guitar (on Change Partners) - Jerry Garcia
- Engineer - Bill Halverson
- Producers - Bill Halverson, Stephen Stills
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Styrous® ~ October 30, 2013
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