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| | Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young |
 | | - This is a damn good improvisational rock and blues album, basically an Al Kooper album with Mike Bloomfield featured on side one, playing stinging blues guitar (far ahead of his contributions on Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited) and adding jazzy weirdness to "Her Holy Modal Majesty," which also features an excellent keyboard solo from Kooper. |
 | | Crosby was so dysfunctional that he didn't write one of his two contributions, and it sounds like he doesn't even sing harmony most of the time, with keyboardist Mike Finnigan and ex-Eagle Tim Schmit taking his place. |
 | | The no-name musicians are all competent - Mike Finnigan is the sole long-time studio crony, and he's also the only real bummer, ruining one song with an excruciating vocal. |
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