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| Manassas | 
 enlarge | Artists: Stephen Stills, Manassas
Label: Atlantic / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $13.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (74 reviews)
Sales Rank: 2559
Format: Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 82808
UPC: 075678280825
EAN: 0075678280825
ASIN: B000002J6F
Release Date: December 12, 1995
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| Tracks:
| • | Song of Love | | • | Rock & Roll Crazies/Cuban Bluegrass | | • | Jet Set (Sigh) - Stephen Stills, Stills | | • | Anyway | | • | Both of Us (Bound to Lose) | | • | Fallen Eagle | | • | Jesus Gave Love Away for Free | | • | Colorado | | • | So Begins the Task - Stephen Stills, Stills, Stephen | | • | Hide It So Deep | | • | Don't Look at My Shadow | | • | It Doesn't Matter - Stephen Stills, Hillman, Chris | | • | Johnny's Garden - Stephen Stills, Stills, Stephen | | • | Bound to Fall - Stephen Stills, Brewer, M. | | • | How Far | | • | Move Around | | • | The Love Gangster | | • | What to Do | | • | Right Now | | • | Treasure | | • | Blues Man |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 69 more reviews...
 Monassas/Stephen Stills December 15, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've always been a fan of CSNY and many of their individual works. Manassas with Stepen Stills was all right, but it lacked something.
I dig it out once and awhile and listen to it, but it's not one of my favorites for this group of guys.
 manassas August 28, 2008
Best album ever. In this re-mastering, the segue between songs on the first side is lost. Sounds much better than my 35 year old vinyl.
 Stephen Stills at his very finest singing and playing, wonderful band. May 3, 2008
Stephen Stills was a true musical superstar in his unfortunately short prime, and while his greatness with the Buffalo Springfield and of course Crosby, Still and Nash have been widely heard and widely recognized, this 1972 effort was overlooked by a lot of people. Including this reviewer; I was a huge Stills fan at the time, but until last month had never heard this interesting and cohesive album fronted by Stills.
As other reviewers clearly indicate, there are few if any excellent and truly memorable song selections, in terms of song writing. "Johnny's Garden" is a very good and really catchy one. And most of the others are hummable, servicable "Americana" style tunes. But there are just not many individual standout songs. Still, you can hear that Manassas was clearly a great band;the Byrd's Chris Hillman is a fine second singer and guitarist, and the players are all talented pros, especially Al Perkins on pedal steel.
Most of all you get to hear a young Stephen Still sing his heart out and play all those amazing accoustic and electric guitar parts. Nobody has ever gotten all those brilliant sounds out of a Martin 6 string like he did, and here is some of the best acoustic playing he ever put on record. So if you love that wonderful, intelligently executed rock that is countryish but is not country, "roots" sound that Still was a master of, and you wonder why he rarely sounded as good as he did on "BlueBird" "Suite Judy Blue Eyes" "Questions" "Woodstock", Wooden Ships", then buy this because he sounds just as wonderful on Manassas. And the band really cooks, and the overall feel of the twenty or so songs is really lively and most cohesive.
Aching to give it five stars, but the tunes are just not that memorable. Even so, if this were vinyl, I would have worn it out in [past six weeks. It's a tight,talented band fronted by a true musical genius. I was most pleased to have finally heard, after all these years, a lesser-recognized gem.
Not like I'd remembered January 25, 2008
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
I am a Steve Stills fan as well as CSN&Y. These days I'm going back and buying CDs of many of the old LPs I used to have.
I was surprised when I got this one that it was not as good as I had remembered. It's still Steve Stills and has a quality about it just because of that, but it seemed like this was a collection of the non-hits.
The other surprise was that the harmonies weren't very good. After CSN&Y, you'd think that would be a given.
So while it's not a bad recording, if I had it to do over again, I probably would have spent my money elsewhere.
A Treasure January 9, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
OK we all know the roots of this album, Buffalo Springfield-BYRDS-etc. The family tree of California Rock/Country Rock etc. This stop along the way is fantastic. With Manassas we have a musical journey/book.
When I bought this album in "72" I was so amazed, like a kid in a musical candy store. Then Manassas came to town, I told my freinds were going to see Stephen Stills & Manassas. They were like Who's that what's a Manassas. I explained who they were a little history about Stephen & Chris, where the name Manassas came from (Manassas Virginia where the famous battles were fought during the Civil War). All's I can say is they were blowen away, so was I. If I could see one concert over again it would be Manassas. Now about the album being to long-HOG WASH. You might as well take a classic novel and rip 3 or 4 chapters out. To me its a musical journey that showcase's many styles of music. At least all the style's I love Rock, Blues & Country. Its a tough decision but one of my favorite songs is "So Begins The Task". Now its been about 36 years since Manassas was first released. I would love to see a box set with "Down the Road" remastered- unreleased songs alt-takes and some Live recordings from the tours. (PLEASE) PS Get this Album, Just Do It
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