Long Time Gone written by David Crosby from the Crosby, Stills & Nash album *Crosby, Stills & Nash*. This is one of David Crosby’s most direct, confrontational and politically motivated musical statements. Although penned in response to a specific incident -- the assassination of Bobby Kennedy -- the song’s call to arms message continues to resonate. While Crosby takes credit for writing the tune, he is also quick to add that it was Stephen Stills who brought the track to life. As he had done throughout a majority of the Crosby, Stills & Nash (1969) debut effort, Stills, ever the multi-instrumentalist, provides “Long Time Gone” with a remarkably solid bed of bass, organ and some scathing lead electric guitar, perfectly complementing the lyrical content. Meanwhile, the track’s cohesive ‘live’ band sound is augmented only by drummer Dallas Taylor and Crosby’s own strident rhythm guitar work. The obvious disgust and resentment in Crosby’s vocal delivery has, if anything, grown more resolute in the subsequent decades as the message of questioning authority and the rights of the individual to be heard and acknowledged by their respective governments continued to be challenged. Review by Lindsay Planer (AllMusic)
Posted on: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 14:18:37 +0000
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