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If I Could Only Remember My Name by: David Crosby

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Rating: - Hazy days man!

Thought about buying this in my younger days but 30 years ago I couldn't get my head around it. Sure there's a bit of self indulgent crooning going on but it's a gentle and relaxing bout of harmonies that pull it through. Cowboy Movie is the stand out track for me. Worth a check out on Spotify first but a good addition to the CSN and Y genre.

Rating: - Great Album supplied with Great Service

I have owned this album on vinyl for many years but wanted to obtain a CD version. The supplier provided me with an excellent CD in the time allotted and made me very happy.

Rating: - Keeping it simple

The closest album / music style I can compare this to is Van Morrison's TB Sheets crossed with Buffalo Springfield. Musically it's very similar in places to TB Sheets and has the same intense feel to it.
I owned it for a couple of years before I was in the mood to play it (it's just one of those records). Having read about it, and the problems in Crosby's life at the time it was recorded, I was expecting a depressing album but was happy to discover that it is more 'quiet mood music' than depressing.
The biggest let down for me was 'I'd Swear There Was Somebody Here'. Don't get me wrong it is an impressive track but I had read so much about it and was expecting something different to what it is. Crosby reputedly felt his recently deceased girlfriend's spirit in the studio whilst he recorded it. Although the performance obviously comes from the soul and is excellent I was expecting a song with lyrics rather than a 1 minute 19 second vocal improvisation.
Light a couple of candles and an incense stick, turn off the lights then let the music carry you back to a time when pop / rock music really was an art form.

Rating: - A complete experience

"If I Could Only Remember My Name" might look like a self indulgent vanity project with a lot of David's celebrity friends if you just based your opinion on some of the more lurid details about David's life, but you would be wrong.

The supporting cast includes most of Jefferson Airplane, Jerry, Bill, Mickey and Phil from the Dead, David Freiberg, Neil Young, Graham Nash, Joni and a few members of the Santana band too and, hell, they rock. The playing is immaculate throughout and DC is vocally in fine form. There are hints of his work with CSN&Y here, songs like "Tamalpais High" are very like the quieter moments of the first CSN album.

This album is really telling you what the whole California/West Coast mellow hippy scene was like musically, with members of Airplane and the Dead present it could hardly be otherwise, and if that sound is your thing, this album is a really essential offering. The sound is loose, laidback, psychedelic, there are places where it reminds me of the great "Dark Star", like in the intro to "What Are Their Names" and also elsewhere, but really what the album shows best is what a great vocalist David Crosby is as well as being a simply magical, visionary songwriter.

A stunning, magnificent album.

Rating: - The greatest voice ever

A messed up guy for sure, but his voice is just the best. I just wish that Lee Shore was on here. As a Neil Young fan I just wish these guys had just not fallen out. But Crosby rules on vocals. Greatest ever. Check out the BBC video on Youtube. Lee Shore. Tops. This album is superb despite all the above.

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