Amoeba Music. Retrospective - The Best of Buffalo Springfield Buffalo Springfield Rock 1969 Preview Editors’ Notes Buffalo Springfield recorded just three studio albums in their short, volatile life, but this late-‘60s combo introduced the world to Neil Young, Stephen Stills and Poco’s Richard Furay, and helped plant the seeds for future country.

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The American psychedelic scene of the late ‘60s produced some really strange birds, few stranger than Buffalo Springfield. Though the group only released three albums, people have pored over that trilogy and drawn from it a rich musical legacy. (You’d have to look across the pond at Cream and Traffic to find the same phenomenon.) A lot of that legacy belongs to Neil Young, whose restless creativity and fierce independence transformed the Buffalo from just another smart folk/rock band into something bigger. Without his acid electric guitar and solo experiments, Buffalo Springfield might have been merely a precursor to Poco and CS&N. But with Young there was no telling where Buffalo might roam: miniature epics (“Broken Arrow”), icy innocence (“I Am A Child”), Motown (“On The Way Home”), Phil Spector (“Expecting To Fly”) or heavy psychedelic R&B (“Mr.Soul”). In between these minefield masterpieces are strewn the contributions from Stephen Stills and (occasionally) Richie Furay. There’s no denying that Stills and Young feed off one another; you hear that on “Bluebird” and “Rock And Roll Woman.” But the three of them are coming from very different places and, rather than meet in the middle, tend to stay in their own camps. Cream, Traffic, even The Beatles arranged their songs so that each was identifiable as the work of that band. No so Buffalo Springfield; Neil Young’s lead guitar might be the lone consistent element from track to track. For example, it’s hard to believe today that “For What It’s Worth,” “Kind Woman” and “Mr.Soul” are the work of the same band. What you hear in the music of Buffalo Springfield is the sound of three separate songwriters growing together in isolation. Retrospective marked the fork in the road where the trio diverged and where fans return to commemorate a serendipitous alignment of talent.

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TRACK LISTING

1. FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH (Stephen Stills) 3:00
2. MR. SOUL (Neil Young) 2:35
3. SIT DOWN, I THINK I LOVE YOU (Stephen Stills) 2:30
4. KIND WOMAN (Richie Furay) 4:10
5. BLUEBIRD (Stephen Stills) 4:28
6. ON THE WAY HOME (Neil Young) 2:25
7. NOWADAYS CLANCY CAN'T EVEN SING (Neil Young) 3:26
8. BROKEN ARROW (Neil Young) 6:13
9. ROCK AND ROLL WOMAN (Stephen Stills) 2:44
10. I AM A CHILD (Neil Young) 2:15
11. GO AND SAY GOODBYE (Stephen Stills) 2:19
12. EXPECTING TO FLY (Neil Young) 3:39

CREDITS

Eve Babitz -- album illustration
Haig Adishian -- album design
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