Looking Forward is the third studio album by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and their fifth, overall. It is the fourteenth album when conflated with releases by the trio of Crosby, Stills & Nash. It was released on Reprise Records in 1999 and peaked at number 26 on the Billboard 200, with total sales nearing 400,000.[4] It is Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's last studio album to date.
Crosby, Stills & Nash toured extensively through the 1990s, playing almost as many shows as they had in the previous decades combined.[5][6] 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 CPR 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.[7] They terminated their contract with Atlantic in 1997, and began to record CSN tracks out of pocket without a record deal.[8][9] Working with Stills to compile the Buffalo Springfield retrospective box set, Neil Young became intrigued with these CSN sessions.[10] 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".[11] The possibility of a new CSNY album attracted the attention of Young's label Reprise Records, which duly released the album once completed.
"Faith in Me" and "No Tears Left" were recorded in Ga Ga's Room in Los Angeles early on in the recording process. "Stand and Be Counted", "Seen Enough", "Dream for Him" and "Sanibel" were recorded at Conway Recording Studios in Hollywood. "Heartland" was recorded at Ocean Studios in Burbank, California. The remainder of the album was recorded at Neil Young's facility, Redwood Digital, in Woodside, California.
Reception[]
Looking Forward has sold approximately 370,000 copies in the United States.[12] It received mixed critical reviews. In 2000, CSNY launched the CSNY2K Tour in support of the album, the quartet's first since the summer stadium tour of 1974.
David Crosby – vocals; electric guitar on "Stand and Be Counted"; acoustic guitar on "Dream for Him"
Stephen Stills – vocals; guitars all tracks except "Slowpoke", "Out of Control" and "Sanibel"; Hammond B-3, bass guitar, percussion on "Faith in Me" maracas, double bass on "No Tears Left"; percussion on "Queen of Them All"
Graham Nash – vocals; acoustic guitar on "Someday Soon"
Neil Young – vocals; guitars all tracks except "Sanibel"; harmonica on "Slowpoke"; tiple on "Out of Control"; celeste on "Queen of Them All"
Additional personnel[]
Joe Vitale – drums all tracks except "Looking Forward", "Slowpoke" and "Out of Control"; Hammond B-3, batas on "Faith in Me"
Mike Finnigan – Hammond B-3 on "Stand and Be Counted", "Heartland", "No Tears Left" and "Queen of Them All"
Spooner Oldham – keyboards on "Slowpoke" and "Queen of Them All"; pump organ on "Looking Forward"
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^Four Way Street The Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Reader. Da Capo Press 2004, ISBN0-306-81277-0, p. 313. Article by Bill DeYoung, originally in Goldmine June 19, 1998.
^Zimmer, Dave. Crosby, Stills & Nash The Biography. Da Capo Press 2000, ISBN0-306-80974-5, p. 287.
^Four Way Street Reader, op. cit., p. 328. Article by Gary Graff, originally in Guitar World February 2000.
