CSNY 1974 | ||||
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Released | July 8, 2014 | |||
Recorded | August 14–15, 19–21, 27–29, 1974 September 14, 1974 December 14, 1974 | |||
Venue | Various | |||
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Length | 196:15 (full version) 78:16 (single disc sampler) | |||
Label | Rhino Records | |||
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Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young chronology | ||||
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 87/100[1] |
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AllMusic | [3] |
Blurt | [2] |
Drowned in Sound | 8/10[5] |
Rolling Stone | [4] |
CSNY 1974 is a live album by Crosby, Stills, & Nash, and their seventh in the CSNY quartet configuration. Issued on Rhino Records in 2014, it consists of concert material recorded in 1974 on the band's tour during the summer of that year. It was issued in several formats: a standard compact disc box set consisting of three audio discs and a standard DVD; as one pure audio Blu-ray disc and a Blu-ray DVD; and a more expensively packaged limited deluxe edition consisting of the material on six vinyl records along with the Blu-ray discs and a coffee table book. Three single disc samplers were also issued: one of the acoustic material exclusively available at Starbucks in the United States and Canada; a second at normal retail outlets; and a third included as a covermount disc to the 250th anniversary issue of the UK music magazine Mojo issued as "an exclusive audio-visual sampler of the new CSNY 1974 box set."[6] Each of the non-sampler sets also contained a 188-page booklet, and all formats were released the same day, with the Mojo sampler arriving with the September 2014 publication of that edition. The three-disc and DVD package peaked at No. 17 on the Billboard 200, while the Starbucks sampler peaked at No. 37 and the selections sampler at No. 81.[7]