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Carry On (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young song)
"Carry On" is a song by American folk rock band Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Written by Stephen Stills, it is the opening track to their second album Déjà Vu (1970). It was released as the B-side of "Teach Your Children", but went on to receive steady airplay of its own from AOR radio stations. BackgroundWhen nearing the end of the recording sessions for Déjà Vu, Graham Nash told Stephen Stills that they still didn't have an opening track. Many recording acts or producers prefer to start an album with a particularly catchy song, in order to set the mood and encourage listeners who are checking it out for the first time. Stills took two songs — (one being the song "Questions"[1] he'd written for and recorded with Buffalo Springfield), and edited them together with parts of a jam session from a few days earlier, to produce one finished piece. The song is noted for the bridge section that makes a transition from a faster to slower tempo, with the lyric lines sung in a capella. Session drummer Dallas Taylor:
The song was also an inspiration for Led Zeppelin, whose track "Friends"[3] on Led Zeppelin III is generally seen as being inspired by it, including a similar slack-stringed C-tuned acoustic opening.[4] PersonnelCSN
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