Studio - 2. D�j� Vu (album)

1. History.

D�j� Vu was the first album Crosby, Stills & Nash released since the addition of Neil Young to the group, and was greatly anticipated after the popularity of the first CSN album. Some noted the influence of Buffalo Springfield^{[citation needed]}, Stills and Young's previous band, notably in the closing song "Everybody I Love You" and the inclusion of a segment of the unreleased Springfield song "Down Down Down" within Young's "Country Girl."

Stills estimates that the album took somewhere in the neighborhood of 800 hours of studio time to record; this figure may be exaggerated, even though the individual tracks display meticulous attention to detail.^[1] The album was done as individual sessions by each of the members when they turned up, apart from the quartet's version of Joni Mitchell's "Woodstock", contributing whatever was needed that could be agreed upon.^[2] Young does not appear on all of the tracks, and drummer Dallas Taylor and bassist Greg Reeves are credited on the cover, given junior-partner status with their names in slightly smaller typeface. Jerry Garcia plays pedal steel on "Teach Your Children" and John Sebastian plays mouth-harp on the title track.

In May 1970, two months after the album was released, the group recorded Neil Young's quickly penned response to the Kent State shootings, "Ohio." That single, backed with Stephen Stills' "Find the Cost of Freedom," was released in late June of the same year, making it to #14 on the Billboard Hot 100, notwithstanding its accusatory sentiment during the years of Nixon's "silent majority."

In 2003, the album was ranked number 147 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. The same year, the TV network VH1 named D�j� Vu the 61st greatest album of all time. The album ranked at #14 for the Top 100 Albums of 1970 and #217 overall by Rate Your Music.

The album was reissued for compact disc after being remastered from the original tapes at Ocean View Digital by Joe Gastwirt on September 6, 1994.