Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Live At Fillmore East, 1969 (2-LP)

(Rhino Records) 17 tracks, gatefold cover

After their famous second appearance at Woodstock in August 1969, David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash and Neil Young spent the rest of the year touring and writing songs for CSNY's 1970 debut album “Deja Vu.” A newly discovered multi-track recording of the band's September 20, 1969 concert at New York City's historic Fillmore East captures an early moment from that first tour.

The September 20 concert, recorded just one month after Woodstock, was the band's fourth show in two days at the Fillmore East and featured both acoustic and electric sets.

The setlist includes soon-to-be classics from CSN's self-titled debut and Young's “Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere” with “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes,” “Helplessly Hoping” and “Down By The River” The concert also includes early versions of two future “Deja Vu” tracks. Stills delivers a stunning solo acoustic performance of his introspective ballad “4 + 20,” followed by Nash singing “Our House” alone on organ to its inspiration Joni Mitchell, who was sitting in the Fillmore audience.

In his acoustic set, Young made a nod to Buffalo Springfield (his first band with Stills) and played “I've Loved Her So Long,” a song he wrote for the group's last album, 1968's “Last Time Around.”

The electric set is powerful and intense, highlighted by sweeping versions of “Wooden Ships,” “Long Time Gone” and “Sea Of Madness” The band closes the show with “Find The Cost Of Freedom,” a new song by Stills that was later released as the B-side to the protest anthem “Ohio.”

Stills and Young compiled and mixed the original eight-track concert recordings at Sunset Sound Studios in Los Angeles.