''Just Roll Tape: April 26, 1968'' is a

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demo album released in 2007. In the sleeve notes to the CD, Stephen Stills recalls that he was present at a

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session in New York in 1968, and when she finished with studio time remaining, Stills paid the engineer privately to let him record song demos. But Stills left the tapes in the studio and eventually considered them lost. When the studio was about to close in 1978, musician Joe Colasurdo, who was rehearsing there, was told by the owner that he could take away any tapes he wanted to before they cleared the place out. After seeing Stills' names on several of the boxes, Colasurdo kept them safe until he could find a reel-to-reel machine to play them on. Colasurdo began attempting to get the masters safely back into Stills's hands, an undertaking that took 25 years. In 2003, he was connected to

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after happening to meet a close friend of his named Dan Curland, who owns the Mystic Disc Record Store. Nash received the tapes and passed them on to Stills, encouraging him to release them. Stills is the only musician on the album. He sings all the songs and plays acoustic guitar and

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. "Treetop Flyer" is not from the 1968 sessions. Note that Stills was performing at the Arizona State Fairgrounds in Phoenix, Arizona as a member of

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on the date referenced in the title. The album's title erroneously dates the session to April26, 1968, but the biographers David Roberts and David Gedge write most of the songs were recorded months later, on August28. Stills recorded the songs quickly in New York City at

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's 7th Avenue location, after his girlfriend

recorded her cover of "

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" in the same studio. Stills recorded "Treetop Flyer" at a separate session.

Track listing

Personnel

* Stephen Stills - vocals, guitar, Dobro, producer *

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- recording engineer * Joe Vitale, Jr. - digital engineer & mixing * Joe Vitale - mixing on track 13 *

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- mixing and digital engineer track 13 * Steven Rhodes - assistant engineer * John Nowland - digital transfers * James Austin & Robin Hurley - A&R Supervision * Marc Salata - production manager *

- photos * Joe Halbardier & Steve Woolard - project assistance *

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- direction

References

{{Authority control 2007 albums Stephen Stills albums Rhino Entertainment albums Albums produced by Stephen Stills