Artist: Stephen Stills,

Stephen Stills calls The Rides "the blues band of my dreams." Credit Stills with dreaming big, because this trio is epic! Along with Stills, The Rides are Kenny Wayne Shepherd and rock/blues keyboardist Barry Goldberg (co-founder of The Electric Flag) along with bassist Kevin McCormick and Shepherd's longtime drummer Chris Layton (Double Trouble). Debut CD, Can't Get Enough (August 27, 429 Records), is led by the sublime, Stills-sung mid-tempo groover "Don't Want Lies," a song that "started off with a riff I wrote 12 years ago," says [...]

MUSIC NEWS- Guitarist Stephen Stills (Buffalo Springfield, CSN, CSN&Y), guitarist Kenny Wayne Shepherd and keyboardist Barry Goldberg (Electric Flag) have formed "THE RIDES”; a new all-star blues rock supergroup. The band will release their debut album “Can’t Get Enough” on...

Sounding something like Stephen Stills' seminal Super Session project, with a dash of CSNY, this exclusive advance stream of "Don't Want Lies" finds Stills participating in a loose, bluesy date with Barry Goldberg and Kenny Wayne Shepherd as the Rides. "Don't Want Lies," set to be released to radio later this week, is but one highlight of the forthcoming Can’t [...]

• Something Else! Reviews - Stephen Stills with Barry Goldberg and Kenny Wayne Shepherd - Don't Want Lies (The Rides, 2013)

So.....we talked about The Lovin Spoonful last week.  As it turns out, John Sebastian was also quite successful after his time with the group achieving solo success and having memorable performances at many of the great rock festivals in the late 1960s.  Here is a great interview with John where he talks about the influence that the great Richie Havens had on his early career and how he ended up on stage at Woodstock as an unscheduled performer. After listening to John's interview, I bet you are ready to hear some music.  Here are [...]

Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Exclusive Kevin Winter, Getty Images On Saturday, April 13, Crosby, Stills and Nash performed a rare small-theater show (their only Los Angeles-area concert this year) at Club Nokia. The performance was part of Light Up The Blues, a benefit for Autism Speaks, one of the world's leading autism science and advocacy organizations. The evening featured many other artists as well and raised over $250,000 for the organization. [...]

Jaws dropped, knees quaked and eyes twinkled. That was the reaction, when it was announced David Crosby from the Byrds, Stephen Stills from Buffalo Springfield and Graham Nash from the Hollies had formed a band together. Imagine all that talent under one roof, and as expected the guys delivered the goods above and beyond the call of duty. Spring 1969 [...]

Slotted high on lists as one of the greatest debut albums of all time, Buffalo Springfield introduced the public to a revolutionary new sound. Comprised of Stephen Stills, Neil Young, Richie Furay, Bruce Palmer and Dewey Martin, the collective talents of these fellows equaled a unified whole. Prior to getting together in the spring of 1966, the members of the [...]

LA from The Byrds to The Eagles This is a great BBC documentary that makes a nice companion piece for our Southern California series from last year.  Here is what the BBC website has to say about it.... Documentary looking at the music and mythology of a golden era in Californian culture, and telling the story of how Los Angeles changed from a kooky backwater in the early 1960s to become the artistic and industrial hub of the American music industry by the end of the 1970s. Alongside extensive and never before [...]

Stephen Stills will make a rare television appearance tonight as the guest of Tavis Smiley on Smiley's PBS talk show. Stills will discuss his new box set, Carry On, his time with CSNY and much more. Friday, April 5 [All Times ET] Stephen Stills on Tavis Smiley [PBS] Yeah Yeah Yeahs on David Letterman [CBS 11:35PM] Divine Fits on Jimmy Kimmel [ABC 11:35PM] Cat Power on [...]

The new retrospective, four-disc box-set Carry On , gleans tracks from across the decades and showing the upward arc of Stephen Stills' career. It partially succeeds. In Paul Simon's movie One Trick Pony, the musician/actors play a morbid game of naming dead rock stars. Rock critics have a different diversion. When we travel together for a far away show or wait a long time for a press conference to begin, the conversation usually turns to, "What musician do you think has betrayed his or her talents the most?" Implied is the fact that the artist must have been [...]

der 68-jährige stephen stills kann auf eine wahrhaft belebte karriere zurückblicken. als gründungsmitglied hob er ende der sechziger buffalo springfield aus der taufe, schloss sich gemeinsam mit seinem bandkollegen neil young später crosby, stills, nash and young an, musizierte mit sämtlichen musiklegenden, von jimi hendrix zu herbie hancock, brachte mit seiner band manassas kriminell übersehene alben heraus und schafft es, heutzutage an fünf abenden hintereinander das new yorker beacon theatre auszuverkaufen...

I have been reading Neil Young's new book, Waging Heavy Peace, over the past several weeks.  I got the book for Christmas and have really been enjoying it.  I would highly recommend it for Neil Young fans but I doubt that others will find the it to be enjoyable.  It rambles a lot, making significant leaps across Neil's career as he tells his story and that alone is probably enough to put off all but hardcore fans. I like it for the little insights that it provides about Neil and his music.  As one example, the love and [...]

Neil Young still seems pained over the difficult times endured by the legendary 1960s band Buffalo Springfield, returning to the theme again and again in his new autobiography Waging Heavy Peace Seemingly cursed from the first, Buffalo Springfield was more influential than it ever was consistent, recording just three albums in its heyday, then seeing a long-awaited recent reunion scuttled [...]

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In 1987 Dan Fogelberg released, Exiles, his tenth album.  He was in the process of going through a divorce (not one that he initiated) and coping with a seriously broken heart.  The album is all about grief with songs that touch on all of its stages: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance.  Today we are focused on Anger. Dan wrote all of the songs on Exiles with the exception of It Doesn't Matter which was written by Stephen Stills and Chris HIllman and originally released by Manassas.  We featured the Manassas version our Southern California Sound #13 post [...]

I'd like to say tomorrow that today the subject was roses, but once again, it's death. Today's sub-topic: Does it really come in threes? I'm not talking about famous people dying in groups of three. I've never seen any consistent, compelling evidence to support this theory/urban myth. I'm talking about threesomes. What is it about them? If one is the loneliest number and two's company, is three totally unlucky? Consider musical trios, like Beastie Boys. Too often, it seems, one member gets taken from us way to soon. The latest example of the law [...]

Stephen Stills : Anyway [Purchase] At the height of his creative powers and full of ambition, Stephen Stills teamed up with his friend, Flying Burrito Brother Chris Hillman, pedal steel guitarist Al Perkins and Jamaican bassist Calvin "Fuzzy" Samuels ( among others) to record a double album full of great rock'n'roll steeped in country, blues, folk and even a little Latin. Though the album has fallen in and out of critical favor over the past [...]

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Even as Crosby Stills and Nash, together off and on since 1969, gear up for yet another massive summer U.S. tour, there remains an electric atmosphere when those three voices intertwine. "When we get together and that first harmony hits," Stills says, "I think: 'Oh, good, I’ve got a job.'" He'll join David Crosby and Graham Nash on tour through [...]

Stephen Stills - Midnight in Paris From 1976's not very good Illegal Stills , here's a track written by Donnie Dacus and Stills's wife at the time, Veronique Sanson. Listen as Stephen Stills sings in French. Wonder about the debt Woody Allen owes to this album. Midnight in Paris? And does Stephen Stills bear a little more than a passing resemblance to a certain Wilson brother? Just sayin'.

• Stephen Stills - Midnight in Paris

Coming on the heels of the Sweet Baby James reissue by Audio Fidelity, the outfit that releases limited edition remastered versions of classic rock albums, is the widely celebrated debut album by Crosby, Stills and Nash. Going back about a year earlier than Taylor's breakthrough record, Crosby, Stills & Nash also signaled a shift away from the harsher, heavier sound [...]