“Carry On” by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young

"Carry On" throws open Déjà Vu, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's 1970 album, and it exists because Graham Nash told Stephen Stills, partway through the sessions, that they still had nothing to open the record with. Stills answered by stitching two songs together, one of them "Questions," which he had written and cut with Buffalo Springfield, and splicing in pieces of a jam from a few days before.

Stills plays guitar, bass, organ, congas and percussion, Nash joins him on congas and Dallas Taylor drums, while Stills, David Crosby and Nash stack up the voices; all four members produced it, with Bill Halverson engineering. The bridge downshifts from a gallop to a slower pace and leaves the singers bare, a cappella. It came out as the flip side of "Teach Your Children," yet album-rock radio kept spinning it on its own.

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