Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young - Deja Vu

CSNY / Déjà Vu 50th anniversary deluxe set

4CD+LP package

Features "Carry On," "Teach Your Children," "Helpless" and "Our House"

One year after its actual golden anniversary, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's Déjà Vu will be receiving a 50th Anniversary deluxe edition with hours of rare and unreleased studio recordings.

The original album at its release was described as "the most anticipated album in America in 1970." The album includes such legendary songs as "Carry On," "Teach Your Children," "Our House" and "Woodstock."

Rhino will be releasing an expansive 4-CD/1-LP collection on May 14, 2021 that includes a "pristine" version of the original album on both 180-gram vinyl and CD, plus hours of rare and unreleased studio recordings "that provide incredible insight into the making of the record." The complete track listing is below.

Déjà Vu: 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition will be presented in a 12 x 12 hardcover book. The collection comes illustrated with rarely seen photos from the era and annotated by writer/filmmaker Cameron Crowe, whose revealing liner notes recount the making of the album through stories told by the people who were there, including David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, and Neil Young.

Crowe recalls in the liner notes that "Déjà Vu caught the zeitgeist perfectly" and "might just be the legendary band's most accurate portrait of their fiery individualism." Of this new Deluxe Edition, Crowe says: "50 years later, with the sonic aperture fully opened, it's a wide-screen look at the big picture of Déjà Vu, with more music, including a batch of surprises, unseen photos, and a lot more clarity."

In 2020, Nash, CSNY's de facto archivist, said, "it will have a lot of stuff that people have never heard before. We found that the master tapes... are still fresh."

On the new edition, the March 11, 1970 album's original 10 tracks are joined by 38 more to add nearly 21/2 hours of music that includes demos, outtakes, and alternate takes — most of which are previously unreleased. Among them is "Know You Got to Run," the first song the quartet recorded during its first session on July 15 at the house Stills was renting from Peter Tork in Studio City.

Other unreleased highlights include the demo for Crosby's "Almost Cut My Hair," Stills' outtake for "Bluebird Revisited," and Young's alternate version of "Helpless" featuring harmonica. Also making its debut on the set is a delightful version of "Our House" that features Nash singing with the song's inspiration, Joni Mitchell.

Listen to the previously unreleased demo version of "Birds" from the collection, above.

Features:
12" x 12" hardcover book (textured surface with gold foil stamp)
Deluxe set is a 4CD+LP package
Rare photos and sleeve notes by Cameron Crowe