Retrospective: The Best of Buffalo Springfield

Performer: Buffalo Springfield
Distributor: WEA (Distributor)

Notes: Buffalo Springfield: Steve Stills (vocals, guitar, keyboards); Richie Furay, Neil Young (vocals, guitar); Jim Messina (vocals, bass); Bruce Palmer, Jim Fielder (bass); Dewey Martin (drums). Producers include: Charles Green, Brian Stone, Steve Stills, Neil Young, Jim Messina. Personnel: Neil Young (vocals, guitar, harmonica); Stephen Stills (vocals, guitar, keyboards); Richie Furay (vocals, guitar); Jim Messina (vocals); Dewey Martin (drums). Illustrator: Eve Babitz. Retrospective: The Best of Buffalo Springfield may not be definitive, but it's a good, basic overview of the group's career, containing most of the group's biggest hits and signature songs. Yes, several worthy album cuts are missing, but as a sampler, this works quite well, offering a nice introduction to the group. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine Buffalo Springfield's brief lifespan (essentially 1966-1968) was rich with promise but fraught with creative tensions. This friction ultimately fractured the band's core foundation of Stephen Stills and Neil Young. However, those same tensions--along with the formidable talents of Richie Furay and Jim Messina (replacing original bass player Bruce Palmer but assuming a broader production role)--created some truly enduring music. With only three albums from which to draw, RETROSPECTIVE includes the entirety of the band's hits and many well-known album tracks. Looking back, Buffalo Springfield can be seen as the wellspring for much of what happened in popular music in the half-dozen years after the band's demise. From the country rock of Poco (which begat the Eagles) to Crosby, Stills & Nash--not to mention every turn in the ever-twisting road of Neil Young's career--it can all be traced right back to these tracks.

Buffalo Springfield was one of the definitive 1960s folk-rock groups. Their surplus of strong writers and personalities (including Neil Young and Steve Stills) produced some inspired recordings, but there was no way to keep all that talent under one roof. After a brief, sparkling career and three albums, they splintered into Poco; Crosby, Stills, and Nash; and, of course, the mighty Neil's five-decade solo career. Despite the brevity of the group's life, their country/rock/folk hybrid laid the groundwork for much of what followed in the '70s.

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