Stephen Stills

UK tour announced

Legendary guitarist/singer-songwriter Stephen Stills is one of the most influential and enduring figures in rock and roll. The only artist ever to be inducted twice in the same night into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - for The Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills & Nash - Stills’ work spans five decades, four iconic groups (Manassas and CSN&Y in addition to the two already mentioned), two era-defining anthems - “For What It’s Worth” and “Love The One You’re With” - and a rich canon of solo material. Ranked #28 on Rolling Stone’s list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time, Stills also has a trio of album masterpieces on their compendium of The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time: Buffalo Springfield Again, Crosby, Stills & Nash and Déjà Vu.

Still recording and touring as a solo artist and with CSN and CSN&Y, Stills’ landmark career hits another amazing milestone in 2007 with the historic collection Just Roll Tape - April 26th 1968. The date references a long-gone day when Stills was in a NYC recording studio with then-girlfriend Judy Collins. When her session wrapped, Stills wandered the halls with engineer John Haney, an acoustic guitar and a couple of hundred dollar bills, which he handed to Haney with the request, “Just roll tape.” What was then captured at Elektra Studios were the first-ever takes of 12 songs that later became Stills solo hits and classics by CSN, CSN&Y and Manassas, including the recording debuts of “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes,” “Wooden Ships” and “Helplessly Hoping.” Acoustic, elemental and intimate, the remastered versions of the dozen demos unveiled on Rhino Records’ Just Roll Tape are an illuminating glimpse into Still’s songwriting brilliance, guitar prowess and vocal agility.