Daylight Again

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Daylight Again
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Studio album by
ReleasedJune 21, 1982 (U.S.)
Recorded1980–1981
StudioRudy Records
Devonshire Sound and Sea West
Genre Rock
Length39:50
Label Atlantic
Producer David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash
Crosby, Stills & Nash chronology
Replay
(1980)
Daylight Again
(1982)
Allies
(1983)
Singles from Daylight Again
  1. "Wasted on the Way"
    Released: June 1982
  2. "Southern Cross"
    Released: September 1982
  3. "Too Much Love to Hide"
    Released: January 1983
Professional ratings
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Daylight Again is the fourth studio album by Crosby, Stills & Nash and their third studio album in the trio configuration. It peaked at No. 8 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, the final time the band made the top ten before the death of David Crosby in 2023. Three singles were released from the album, all making the Billboard Hot 100: "Wasted on the Way" peaked at No. 9, "Southern Cross" at No. 18 and "Too Much Love to Hide" at No. 69. The album was certified platinum by the RIAA with sales of 1,850,000. [3]

Contents

Background

The genesis of the album lies in recordings made by Stephen Stills and Graham Nash at intervals in 1980 and 1981 and the album was originally slated to be a Stills–Nash project. They employed Art Garfunkel, Timothy B. Schmit and Mike Finnigan to sing in place of where David Crosby might have been. Executives at Atlantic Records, however, had little interest in anything but CSN product from any member of the group and held out for the presence of Crosby, forcing Nash and Stills to start paying for the sessions out-of-pocket. [4] They began to turn toward the company's point of view and decided to invite Crosby to participate at the eleventh hour.

Crosby brought two tracks to the album: "Delta", where Stills and Nash squeezed their vocals into Crosby's already-taped multi-tracked harmonies and "Might As Well Have a Good Time", which received the bona fide Crosby, Stills & Nash treatment. [5] Most of the recording, however, features other voices in addition to the main trio, a first for any CSNY record as is the number of outside writers. Graham Nash wrote the album's biggest hit, "Wasted on the Way", about the time the group spent in squabbles and diversions rather than concentrating on their music. The second single, "Southern Cross", was Stills' partial rewrite of a song by brothers Richard and Michael Curtis. [6] [7] The song "Daylight Again" evolved out of Stills' guitar-picking to accompany on-stage stories regarding the South in the Civil War, segueing into "Find the Cost of Freedom", which had been the B-side of the "Ohio" single in 1970. [8]

Daylight Again was the band's first album in the video age and a video was filmed for "Southern Cross" featuring the band and one of their favorite metaphors, a sailing vessel. It received a fair amount of rotation on MTV in 1982 and 1983, and helped to propel the album's sales.

The album has been released on compact disc on three occasions: an initial time in the 1980s, [9] remastered using the original master tapes by Ocean View Digital and reissued on September 20, 1994 and again remastered using the HDCD process and reissued by Rhino Records on January 24, 2006, with four bonus tracks.

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Turn Your Back on Love"
4:51
2."Wasted on the Way"Nash2:52
3."Southern Cross"
  • Stills
  • Richard Curtis
  • Michael Curtis
4:41
4."Into the Darkness"Nash3:23
5."Delta" David Crosby 4:15
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Since I Met You"
  • Stills
  • Stergis
3:12
2."Too Much Love to Hide"
  • Stills
  • Gerry Tolman
3:58
3."Song for Susan"Nash3:08
4."You Are Alive"
  • Stills
  • Stergis
3:04
5."Might As Well Have a Good Time"4:28
6."Daylight Again/Find the Cost of Freedom"Stills2:36
2006 bonus tracks
No.TitleWriter(s)NotesLength
12."Raise a Voice"
  • Nash
  • Stills
originally released on Allies 2:34
13."Feel Your Love"
  • Stills
  • Nash
outtake4:28
14."Tomorrow Is Another Day"Stillsouttake4:05
15."Might As Well Have a Good Time"
  • Henske
  • Doerge
Crosby demo4:15

Personnel

Crosby, Stills & Nash

Additional musicians

Production

2006 Expanded Edition credits

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA) [24] Platinum1,000,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References

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  3. "RIAA - Soundscan". Greasylakes. February 7, 2012. Retrieved December 23, 2015.
  4. Zimmer and Diltz, p. 226
  5. Zimmer and Diltz, p. 228
  6. Liner notes, CSN (box set), 1991.
  7. "Southern Cross by Crosby, Stills & Nash". Songfacts.com. Retrieved October 3, 2011.
  8. Zimmer and Diltz, op.cit.
  9. The date constantly given for first generation remastering for digital as issued on compact disc, October 25, 1990 is the earliest date for which amazon.com has records regarding compact disc releases. So for any CD that came out prior to that, they simply put in that date rather than an actual one since they do not have it. Every single first generation compact disc was not issued on October 25, 1990.
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