Voyage

Disc 1
1	Eight Miles High / The Byrds 3:34
2	Renaissance Fair / The Byrds 1:51
3	Everybody's Been Burned / The Byrds 2:59
4	Wooden Ships / Crosby, Stills & Nash 5:27
5	Guinnevere / Crosby, Stills & Nash Alternate Mix 4:38
6	Long Time Gone / Crosby, Stills & Nash 4:17
7	Déjà Vu / Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young 4:10
8	Almost Cut My Hair / Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young 4:21
9	Tamalpais High (At About 3) 3:31
10	Laughing 5:24
11	Music Is Love 3:21
12	Song with No Words (Tree with No Leaves) 5:56
13	What Are Their Names? 4:11
14	I'd Swear There Was Somebody Here 1:21
15	Where Will I Be? / Crosby & Nash 3:20
16	Page 43 / Crosby & Nash 2:55
17	Critical Mass / Crosby & Nash 1:20
18	Carry Me / Crosby & Nash 3:33
19	Bittersweet / Crosby & Nash 2:38
20	Naked in the Rain / Crosby & Nash 2:26
21	Dancer / Crosby & Nash 4:49
Disc 2
1	Shadow Captain / Crosby, Stills & Nash 4:31
2	In My Dreams / Crosby, Stills & Nash 5:11
3	Delta / Crosby, Stills & Nash 4:13
4	Compass / Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young 5:27
5	Tracks in the Dust 4:48
6	Arrows / Crosby, Stills & Nash 3:51
7	Hero 4:37
8	Yvette in English 5:53
9	Rusty and Blue / CPR 7:30
10	Somehow She Knew / CPR 7:05
11	Breathless / CPR 5:16
12	Map to Buried Treasure / CPR 5:33
13	At the Edge / CPR 4:21
14	Through Here Quite Often / Crosby & Nash 4:00
15	My Country 'Tis of Thee 1:57
Disc 3
1	Long Time Gone / Crosby & Stills previously unreleased / Demo Version 4:32
2	Guinnevere previously unreleased / Alternate Mix 4:19
3	Almost Cut My Hair previously unreleased / Demo Version 5:22
4	Games previously unreleased / Demo Version 3:05
5	Déjà Vu / Crosby & Nash previously unreleased / Demo Version 2:36
6	Triad previously unreleased / Demo Version 5:26
7	Cowboy Movie previously unreleased / Studio Version 10:57
8	Kids and Dogs Unissued Song 6:58
9	Have You Seen the Stars Tonight? / Jefferson Starship previously unreleased / Alternate Mix 3:06
10	The Lee Shore / Crosby & Nash Live / previously unreleased 4:24
11	Traction in the Rain / Crosby & Nash Live / previously unreleased 3:36
12	King of the Mountain previously unreleased / Demo Version 2:44
13	Homeward Through the Haze / Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young previously unreleased / Alternate Mix 4:22
14	Samurai previously unreleased / Studio Version 1:40
15	Climber / Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young previously unreleased / Studio Version 5:18
16	Dream for Him / Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Live / previously unreleased 7:57

Barnes & Noble

Voyage is an appropriate title for this three-disc career retrospective, which sets sail through waters both smooth and choppy to bring together the best work this singer-songwriter has turned out -- both alone and with the classic groups he's been part of. Arranged in rough chronological order, the set affords the listener a chance to witness Crosby's development as both a performer and a writer: from his days as part of the Byrds (best represented by the haunting "Everybody's Been Burned") to his sometimes uplifting, sometimes chilling solo work to his collaborations, in various permutations, with foils Stephen Stills and Graham Nash. That final category takes in both much-heard material -- "Wooden Ships" and "Guinevere," for instance -- and '80s-era tracks, such as the bleak and beautiful "Delta," that reveal Crosby's palpable weathering as well as a wizened outlook that suits him well. The set's third disc, given over entirely to previously unreleased material, is Voyage's trump card: It's rife with stunning -- if sometimes raw -- performances that offer deep insight into Crosby's inner workings. That's evident on unvarnished demos of songs like "Almost Cut My Hair," a far edgier version than the album version, as well as on the altogether-unreleased "Kids and Dogs," a 1971-vintage solo cut that showcases a stylistic adventurousness worthy of Tim Buckley. In that spirit, Crosby chose to round things out with a smattering of concert performances of songs -- like the Crosby/Nash workout "Traction in the Rain" and a sinewy "Dream for Him" that's buoyed by Neil Young's stinging guitar -- that cut to the quick despite their relative obscurity. All in all, it's most assuredly a fantastic Voyage. David Sprague

All Music Guide

Rhino has gone all out to release projects to coincide with the publication of David Crosby's autobiography, Since Then. Along with this triple-disc box set, the label is also reissuing Crosby's first solo recording -- an album that carries the word "masterpiece" around with it in the 21st century. While that double disc (the original disc with a bonus cut, and a DVD of the album in a superior mix) may carry some real excitement, it's a head-scratching exercise as to who, exactly, will be interested in this box. Rhino has packaged together three CDs in a deluxe foldout package with a 130-page book with a great liner essay by Steve Silberman, and song-by-song annotations by Crosby. Compiled and produced by Joel Bernstein and Graham Nash, Voyage contains two discs of songs from Crosby's various contributing incarnations as a member of the Byrds, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Crosby & Nash, and CPR, and as a solo artist. The work here varies in quality, and merely tells a kind of story that has been told in many ways over the individual releases he appeared on. None of his backing vocal sessions with the Jefferson Airplane, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, etc., are here. That may be as it should be, but the story would have been fuller and more complete than it is presented here. After all, it is reasonable to assume that anyone interested in the aforementioned acts to any real degree would have this material anyway. And anyone new to those recording artists or to Crosby himself would be ill-disposed to purchasing something this expensive.

So it all comes down to disc three, which is a 16-cut set of unreleased demos, alternates, and rehearsals of Crosby, either solo or with CSN, CSNY, or Crosby & Nash, with one exception -- an alternate mix of "Have You Seen the Stars Tonight" with the Jefferson Starship under the leadership of Paul Kantner. Here, there are benefits for fans of rough and "unfinished" recordings. The demos of "Long Time Gone" with Crosby and Stephen Stills is compelling, as are the alternate mix of "Guinnevere" and the demo of "Déjà Vu," the latter for its intense showcase of vocal harmony. However, the takes of "Almost Cut My Hair" (acoustic) and "Games" are throwaway ones. "Triad" neither adds nor subtracts from its recorded version; it is merely different. "Cowboy Movie" is a studio take here, over ten minutes in length, that rocks. "Kids and Dogs," the bonus cut on If I Could Only Remember My Name, is a mellow but worthy inclusion. The rest is all of interest, most of it being of very high quality, and the disc is thus recommended to fans in a big way -- it would have probably sold on its own. Yet the question remains as to how willing consumers are to go after such a set, even if it is being released in the holiday season. Thom Jurek