David Crosby & Stephen Stills - 1987-05-09 - Austin, TX (SBD)

Stephen Stills & David Crosby 

featuring David Lindley

1987-05-09

Cowboys For Indians Benefit 1987

Manor Downs

Austin, Texas

Soundboard Recording

320 kbps

Artwork Inlcuded

Stephen Stills:

01. Midnight Rider

02. Thoroughfare Gap

03. Treetop Flyer

04. Southern Cross

05. Blind Fiddler Medley 

06. Love The One You're With

David Crosby:

01. Almost Cut My Hair

02. In My Dreams

03. For Free

04. Carry Me

05. Delta

06. Compass

07. Guinnevere

08. The Lee Shore (with David Lindley)

09. Long Time Gone  (with Stills & Lindley)

10. Teach Your Children (with Stills & Lindley)

David Crosby & Stephen Stills - 1987-05-09 - Austin, TX (SBD)

This post is an interesting one for several reasons. First, it features David Crosby and Stephen Stills, who spent a lifetime playing together in CSN and CSNY but rarely performed as a duo. Second, the information file that accompanied this show billed it as The Cowboys For Indians Benefit. I finally uncovered that this show was a SEVA benefit concert. The SEVA foundation, an international health organization, is best known for its work in Africa and Asia, but began helping Native American communities in the US in 1982. Since 1979, rock musicians have partnered with SEVA to raise funds.  Artists such as the Grateful Dead, The Band, Bruce Hornsby, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, Graham Nash, Country Joe McDonald, Maria Muldaur and Paul Simon, just to name a few, have participated in dozens of shows over the last 33 years (go here for more on SEVA benefit concerts). In addition to Crosby and Stills, The Cowboys For Indians Benefit featured David Lindley, Jerry Jeff Walker, Timbuk Three, Jimmy Dale Gilmore, Butch Hancock, Max Gail, Peter Rowan, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Floyd Red Crow Westerman, Wavy Gravy & Charlie Hill. Third, my research uncovered that the show did not take place on February 5, 1987, as originally indicated in the notes and on the artwork, but rather on May 9 of that year, 25 years ago today. In any event, this soundboard recording captures Crosby and Stills from that benefit show, along with special guest David Lindley. After you download this one, be sure to check out the SEVA site and make a contribution to a worthy cause!