Long time gone, now back: Crosby, Stills & Nash's first and third studio albums get special treatment January 24 when Atlantic/Rhino delivers expanded, HDCD-remastered editions of 1969's Crosby, Stills & Nash and 1982's Daylight Again, each fleshed out with four bonus cuts. 

The trio's debut set adds "Do for the Others," a 1969 group take of a Stills song that would wind up on his solo debut a year later, Crosby's "Song with No Words" (in an improved remix over the one that appeared on 1991's CS&N box), Nash's "Teach Your Children" and Fred Neil's "Everybody's Talkin'." Reissue co-producer (with Graham Nash and Stanley Johnston) Joel Bernstein tells ICE, "The 'Teach Your Children' is a demo for the album, not an outtake. It's different from the finished Déjà Vu version; there're no overdubs, no wires. It's very sweet. At the start, Graham asks Crosby, 'Do you remember the words?'" As for "Everybody's Talkin,'" a Top 10 hit for Harry Nilsson in 1969, Bernstein says, "They were in the studio, putting down any songs they might consider recording for the album. People often don't realize how much Fred Neil influenced David and Stephen, but he loomed very large for both of them. It's a beautiful Stephen vocal, more low-pitched than normal." 

Two of Daylight Again's bonuses are previously unissued. Stills plays acoustic piano and electric guitar on his and Nash's "Feel Your Love," which gets an alternately rockin' and samba-esque treatment from Michael Finnigan  (organ), George "Chocolate" Perry (bass), Craig Doerge (electric piano), Joe Vitale (drums) and Michael Stergis (acoustic guitar). Much of the same crew assists on Stills' "Tomorrow Is Another Day," as does Eagle Timothy B. Schmit, who lent backup vocals to much of Daylight Again. A version of Nash and Stills' folk-rockish "Raise a Voice," Bernstein notes, "was on [1983's] Allies. This is the same take, but a different mix. It's one of those [socially aware] songs that's as relevant today as when it was written." "Might As Well Have a Good Time," says Bernstein, "is Crosby's original demo of the song that wound up on the LP. I can just see CD Watchdog getting a letter saying, 'Hey, I was listening to this, and it's the same take as the album track. What gives?' Yes, it is, but what's interesting is it's the demo the band heard, and, instead of recutting it from scratch, they said, 'Fantastic: we'll just replace David's harmonies.' Here, David's doing it all: the upper and lower parts in addition to the melody." 

While there are no details yet, Rhino's plans call for the label to work with CS&N on further catalog upgrades.