David Crosby - If I Could Only Remember My Name ( 180g vinyl 45rpm 2LP)

Release date 30-04-2024(originally released in 1971)

 2024 US reissue 180g vinyl 45rpm 2LP (Atlantic 75 Series)-

David Crosby's If I Could Only Remember My Name Reissued as Part of the Atlantic Records 75th Anniversary Series on 45rpm 180g 2LP.

Mastered Directly From the Original Master Tape by Bernie Grundman and Pressed by Quality Record Pressings.

David Crosbys 1971 solo debut was a unique eclectic and wilfully expansive album. Musically the album has an exploratory almost jazzy feel with its bright production, cloaking the listener in acoustic strains and lush layered harmonies and sees the cream of early70s California rock assembled with the various celebrities joining together in an organic collective approach thats embodied in the opener the freespirited jam of Music Is Love.

Tracks:(180g vinyl 45rpm 2LP)
A1     Music Is Love
A2     Cowboy Movie
B1     Tamalpais High (At About 3)
B2     Laughing

C1     What Are Their Names
C2     Traction In The Rain
D1    Song With No Words (Tree With No Leaves)
D2     Orleans
D3    I'd Swear There Was Somebody Here

David Crosby's debut solo album, If I Could Only Remember My Name is a one-shot wonder of dreamy but ominous California ambience.

If I Could Only Remember My Name was the debut solo record from David Crosby. Recorded in 1970 after the passing of his girlfriend Christine and released in February of 1971, the album explores themes including loss and disorientation. The album features a who's who of contributors from the San Francisco Bay area including Paul Kantner and Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane, Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead, and Santana, and his cohort from Los Angeles including Graham Nash, Neil Young, and Joni Mitchell.

The album has attained a cult status throughout the last 50 years, hailed for its spooky, psychedelic, and truly unique sounds.

AllMusic gave the album 4.5 stars, with reviewer Stanton Swihart writing: "With his ringing, velvety voice — the epitome of hippie crooning — and inspired songwriting, he turns If I Could Only Remember My Name into a one-shot wonder of dreamy but ominous California ambience."

All the hallmarks of a top-notch Analogue Productions reissue are here for you to savor: Mastered directly from the original master tape by Bernie Grundman and cut at 45 RPM. Pressed on 180-gram vinyl at Quality Record Pressings, and housed in tip-on old style gatefold double pocket jackets with film lamination by Stoughton Printing.