Vinyl plays with occasional light-crackles (play-graded). Cover looks great; a few creases near edges; light-scuffing, tiny surface abrasions, and surface impressions (front/back); deeper surface impression with abrasions near bottom-center on front. Inner-sleeve is original (generic MCA). Spine is mostly easy-to-read (printed off-center) with wear. Shelf-wear along top/bottom-edge and corners. Opening is crisp with signs of light use and divots. Gold Platinum Plus stamp near top-right on front. 1980 Pressing with blue rainbow label. (Not a cut-out.)
Wind on the Water, the second album by Crosby & Nash, peaked t No. 6 on the U.S. Billboard 200, and has been certified a gold record by the RIAA. 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. 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. 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 a tour and an album in 1971 and 1972. This time they made it a going concern rather than a one-off happenstance, signing a three-album deal with ABC Records, of which this album was the first of their contract. 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.