David Crosby “If I Could Only Remember My Name” (1971)

Along with Gene Clark’s “No Other” and John Philips “The Wolf King Of L.A.,” David Crosby’s “If I Could Only Remember My Name” is considered another great lost seventies classic. And rightly so! It has the lore; the album was recorded shortly after the tragic death of his partner, the line up; a who's who of the West Coast in 1971 including Neil Young, Grace Slick, Graham Nash and Jerry Garcia among others. And the songs; the haunting “Laughing” (featuring Joni Mitchell), the dreamy “Tamalpais High” and the transcendental “Orleans.” Beautiful and decadent, organic and excessive, the album perfectly captures the early seventies California sound and scene while creating something entirely unique. –David