| Wind on the Water | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Crosby & Nash |
| Cover: | Windonthewatercn.jpg |
| Released: | September 15, 1975 |
| Recorded: | Rudy Records, San Francisco, California Sound Labs and Village Recorders, Los Angeles, California |
| Genre: | Rock |
| Length: | 40:57 |
| Label: | ABC Records (1975) MCA Records (2000) |
| Producer: | David Crosby, Graham Nash, Stephen Barncard |
| Prev Title: | Graham Nash/David Crosby |
| Prev Year: | 1972 |
| Next Title: | Whistling Down the Wire |
| Next Year: | 1976 |
Wind on the Water is the second album by Crosby & Nash, released on ABC Records in 1975. Cassette and 8-track tape versions of the album were distributed by Atlantic Records, to which Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young were signed. It peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard 200 album chart and was certified gold by the RIAA.[1] Three singles were released from the album, "Carry Me", "Take the Money and Run", and "Love Work Out", of which only the first charted, peaking at No. 52 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.[2]
After the summer 1974 tour by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, the quartet made a second attempt at a new CSNY studio album. Like the attempt from 1973, this proved fruitless, although the track "Through My Sails" showed up on the 1975 Zuma album by Neil Young. The quartet pursued their own directions, Young forming a new version of Crazy Horse to record Zuma, and Stephen Stills resuming his solo career with a new album in early 1975. David Crosby and Graham Nash opted to reactivate the partnership that had yielded tours in 1971 and 1973 and an album in 1972. This time they made it a going concern, signing a three-album deal with ABC Records, of which this album was the first of their contract.
As on their debut album, most of the instrumental backing was provided by the group of session musicians known as The Section. This quartet consisting of keyboardist Craig Doerge, guitarist Danny Kortchmar, bassist Leland Sklar, and drummer Russell Kunkel, along with multi-instrumentalist David Lindley and bassist Tim Drummond, would be dubbed by Crosby as 'The Mighty Jitters' and provide support for the duo both on stage and in the studio for the remainder of the decade. Sessions for the album took place at Rudy Recorders in San Francisco, and the Sound Lab and Village Recorders in Los Angeles.
Entering their mid-thirties, Crosby and Nash explored darker, trenchant themes in their lyrics for this album, "Carry Me" referencing the death of Crosby's mother, with "Wind on the Water" an elegiac plea concerning the slaughter of whales. As usual, songs topics included personal issues and friends: "Mama Lion" purportedly about Joni Mitchell; "Cowboy of Dreams" about Young; and "Take the Money and Run" concerning the financial aftermath to the mammoth CSNY 1974 tour. Two songs feature the first issued writing collaborations of Nash and Crosby. The one on side two that closes the album, "To the Last Whale...", links two separate compositions: an a cappella sketch by Crosby "Critical Mass", into the title track by Nash.
Wind on the Water was reissued for compact disc on January 11, 2000, on MCA Records. On April 24, 2001, the album was repackaged as Bittersweet on the European budget label Hallmark Records from a second-generation master tape and issued in Europe only. In 2002, the album was released in the Netherlands for European distribution under the title The Magic Collection: Crosby and Nash, on the low-budget label ABC Records, in the series "The Magic Collection" (a division of Telesonic Holland). In 2008, the album was reissued in the UK, for the local and European distribution, on Landmark label (a division of Entertain Me Europe Ltd.), this time under the title Take the Money and Run. There was a vinyl-only reissue of the original album on Invisible Hands Music in August 2016.
In 2008, the album was reissued with a live concert from an FM broadcast recorded at the San Francisco Civic Auditorium, 14 December 1974 at a concert to benefit the United Farmworkers' Union and Project Jonah.
| Chart (1975) | Peakposition | |
|---|---|---|
| US Billboard Top LPs[3] | 6 | |
| Canadian RPM 100 Albums[4] | 28 | |
| US Cash Box Top 100 Albums[5] | 10 | |
| US Record World Album Chart[6] | 9 |
| 1975 | "Carry Me" | US Billboard Hot 100 | 52 |
| Canada RPM Singles | 65 | ||
| US Top Singles (Cash Box)[7] | 44 | ||
| US Top Singles (Record World) [8] | 90 | ||
| "Take The Money And Run" | US Top Singles (Cash Box) | 103 |
| Date | City | Country | Venue | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 August 1975 | Los Angeles | United States | Universal Amphitheatre | |
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| 26 August 1975 | Philadelphia | Tower Theater | ||
| 27 August 1975 | ||||
| 29 August 1975 | Lenox | Tanglewood Music Center | ||
| 30 August 1975 | Columbia | Merriweather Post Pavilion | ||
| 1 September 1975 | Troy | Pine Knob | ||
| 2 September 1975 | Akron | Blossom Center | ||
| 3 September 1975 | Chicago | Chicago Auditorium Theater | ||
| 5 September 1975 | Holmdel | Garden State Music Center | ||
| 7 September 1975 | New York City | Beacon Theatre | ||
| 8 September 1975 | ||||
| 13 October 1975 | Berkeley | Greek Theater | ||
| 14 October 1975 | Santa Barbara | County Bowl | ||
| 1975 Electric Tour | ||||
| 10 October 1975 | Williamsburg | United States | William and Mary College | |
| 11 October 1975 | Washington | Georgetown University | ||
| 12 October 1975 | ||||
| 15 October 1975 | Macomb | Western Illinois University | ||
| 17 October 1975 | Champaign | University of Illinois | ||
| 18 October 1975 | Oxford | Ohio University | ||
| 21 October 1975 | Boston | Boston Music Hall | ||
| 22 October 1975 | Springfield | Civic Center | ||
| 24 October 1975 | Lafayette | Purdue University | ||
| 25 October 1975 | Carbondale | Southern Illinois University | ||
| 28 October 1975 | Dallas | Moody College | ||
| 29 October 1975 | Houston | |||
| 31 October 1975 | Miami | Jai Alai Fronton | ||
| 1 November 1975 | St. Petersburg | |||
| 2 November 1975 | Gainesville | University of Florida | ||
| 5 November 1975 | Atlanta | |||
| 7 November 1975 | Erie | |||
| 8 November 1975 | South Bend | Notre Dame University | ||
| 9 November 1975 | Ypsilanti | Eastern Michigan University | ||
| 11 November 1975 | Pittsburgh | Carnegie-Mellon University | ||
| 13 November 1975 | Bowling Green | Bowling Green State University | ||
| 14 November 1975 | Mt. Pleasant | Central Michigan University | ||
| 15 November 1975 | Kalamazoo | Wings Stadium | ||
| 21 November 1975 | Berkeley | Zellerbach Auditorium | ||
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| 26 November 1975 | Anaheim | Anaheim Convention Center | ||
| 1 December 1975 | Tokyo | Japan | Nippon Budokan | |