Buffalo Springfield

Legendary american band .....

Apart from the Byrds, no other American band had as great an impact on folk-rock and country-rock — really, the entire Californian rock sound — than Buffalo Springfield. The group's formation is the stuff of legend: driving on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, Stephen Stills and Richie Furay spotted a hearse that Stills was sure belonged to Neil Young, a Canadian he had crossed paths with earlier. Indeed it was, and with the addition of fellow hearse passenger and Canadian Bruce Palmer on bass and ex-Dillard Dewey Martin on drums, the cluster of ex-folkys determined, as the Byrds had just done, to become a rock & roll band.

Buffalo Springfield wasn't together long — they were an active outfit for just over two years, between 1967 and 1968 —but every one of their three albums was noteworthy. Their debut, including their sole big hit (Stills' "For What It's Worth"), established them as the best folk-rock band in the land barring the Byrds, though Springfield was a bit more folk and country oriented. Again, their second album found the group expanding their folk-rock base into tough hard rock and psychedelic orchestration, resulting in their best record. The group was blessed with three idiosyncratic, talented songwriters in Stills, Young, and Furay (the last of whom didn't begin writing until the second LP) yet they also had strong and often conflicting egos, particularly Stills and Young. The group, who held almost infinite promise, rearranged their lineup several times, Young leaving the group for periods and Palmer fighting deportation, until disbanding in 1968. Their final album clearly shows the group fragmenting into solo directions.

Eventually, the inter-personal tensions and creative battles led to a perhaps inevitable split, starting with Young's departure for a solo career. He would later reunite with Stephen Stills in Crosby, Stills, & Nash, joining the trio once a decade for various projects. In addition to CSN, Stills released solo albums and worked with a nother band, Manassas. Initially, Jim Messina and Richie Furay stayed together, forming the country-rock group Poco, but Messina left after three albums to team up in a duo with Kenny Loggins. Furay himself left Poco and teamed with Chris Hillman and JD Souther in the Souther Hillman Furay Band before pursuing a solo career. Rumors of a Buffalo Springfield reunion circulated for years — Young even hinted at it with the song "Buffalo Springfield Again" — but it never materialized.

Words from the allmusic.com site.


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Buffalo Springfield
 "The beginning"
 The Tracks are: For What Itīs Worth, Go And Say Goodbye, Sit Down I Think I Love You, Nowadays Clancy Canīt Even Sing, Hot Dusty Roads, Everybodyīs Wrong, Flying On The Ground Is Wrong, Burned, Do I Have To Come Right Out And Say It. Leave, Out Of My Mind & Pay The Price.
Musicians on the Buffalo Springfield album: Richie Furay, Dewey Martin, Jim Messina, Bruce Palmer, Stephen Stills, Steve Stills, Neil Young and others.
Available from Atco Records/Original release year: 1966

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Buffalo Springfield Again
 "2nd album"
 The Tracks are: Mr Soul, A Childīs Clame To Fame, Everydays, Expecting To Fly, Bluebird, Hung Upside Love, Sad Memory, Good Time Boy, Rock & Roll Woman & Broken Arrow.
Musicians on the Buffalo Springfield Again album: James Burton, Charlie Chin, Jim Fielder, Richie Furay, Dewey Martin, Jack Nitzsche, Bruce Palmer, Don Randi, Stephen Stills, Bob West, Neil Young and others.
Available from Atco Records/Original release year: 1967

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Last Time Around
 "Last tracks from the group"
 The Tracks are: On The Way Home, Itīs So Hard To Wait, Pretty Girl Why, Four Days Gone, Carefree Country Day, Special Care, In The Hour Of Not Quite Rain, Questions, I Am A Child, Merry-Go-Round, Uno Mondo & Kind Woman.
Musicians on the Last Time Around album: Richie Furay, Dewey Martin, Jim Messina, Stephen Stills, Neil Young and others.
Available from Atco Records/Original release year: 1968

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Retrospective
 "Best Of Buffalo Springfield"
 The Tracks are: For What It's Worth, Mr. Soul, Sit Down I Think I Love You, Kind Woman, Bluebird, On the Way Home, Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing, Broken Arrow, Rock and Roll Woman, I Am a Child, Go and Say Goodbye & Expecting to Fly.
Musicians on the Retrospective The Best Of Buffalo Springfield album: Richie Furay, Dewey Martin, Jim Messina, Bruce Palmer, Stephen Stills, Steve Stills, Neil Young and others.
Available from Atco Records/Original release year: 1969

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Collection
 "A collection of Buffalo Springfield songs"
 The Tracks are: 1: For What Itīs Worth, Sit Down I Think I Love You, Nowadays Clancy Canīt Even Sing, Go And Say Goodbye,Pay The Price, Burned & Out Of My Mind. 2: Mr Soul, Bluebird (9 Minute Version), Broken Arrow & Rock and Roll Woman. 3: Expecting To Fly, Hung Upside Down, A Childīs Clame To Fame, Kind Woman, On The Way Home & I Am A Child. 4: Pretty Girl Why, Special Care, Uno Mondo, In The Hour Of Not Quite Rain, 4 Days Gone & Questions.
Musicians on the Collection album: Richie Furay, Dewey Martin, Jim Messina, Bruce Palmer, Stephen Stills, Steve Stills, Neil Young and others.
Available from Atco Records/Original release year: 1973

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Box Set
 "Complete works from Buffalo Springfield"
 The Tracks are: Tracklist to be updated.
Musicians on the Box Set album: Richie Furay, Dewey Martin, Jim Messina, Bruce Palmer, Stephen Stills, Steve Stills, Neil Young and others.
Available from Rhino Records/Original release year: 2001

 


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