I know many people have been dying to know details of this great album, seems like the information is available, but I guess I'm not the only one who has missed it so far. So here goes:
Musicians

"Stephen Barncard provides a wealth of information about the recording of this album on his website. This includes musicians information for each track as follows.

Music Is Love;

David Crosby - guitar, vocals
Graham Nash - guitar, vocals
Neil Young - guitar, percussion, vocals

Cowboy Movie;

David Crosby - guitar, vocals
Jerry Garcia - guitar
Phil Lesh - bass
Mickey Hart - drums
Bill Kreutzmann - tambourine

Tamalpais High (At About 3) ;

David Crosby - guitar, vocals
Jerry Garcia - guitar
Jorma Kaukonen - guitar
Phil Lesh - bass
Bill Kreutzmann - drums

Laughing;

David Crosby - guitar, vocals
Joni Mitchell - vocals
Jerry Garcia - pedal steel guitar
Phil Lesh - bass
Bill Kreutzmann - drums, tambourine

What Are Their Names;

David Crosby - guitar, vocals
Neil Young - guitar
Jerry Garcia - pedal steel guitar
Phil Lesh - bass
Bill Kreutzmann - drums
David Crosby, Paul Kantner, Joni Mitchell, Grace Slick,Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, David Freiberg, Graham Nash - The PERRO Chorus

Traction in the Rain;

David Crosby - guitar, vocals
Graham Nash - vocals
Laura Allan - autoharp, vocals

Song with No Words;

David Crosby - guitar, vocals
Graham Nash - vocals
Jerry Garcia - guitar
Jorma Kaukonen - guitar
Jack Casady - bass
Michael Shrieve - drums
Greg Rolie - piano

Orleans;

David Crosby - guitar, vocals

I'd Swear There Was Somebody Here;

David Crosby - vocals

Laughing is included on the Crosby, Stills and Nash box set which provides a slightly different list of musicians for the song;

David Crosby - guitar, vocals
Jerry Garcia - pedal steel
Bill Kreutzmann - drums
Phil Lesh - bass
Joni Mitchell - vocals
Graham Nash - vocals


Credits

Producer - David Crosby
Recording & mixing engineer - Stephen Barncard
Assistant engineer - Ellen Burke
Additional engineering - Henry Lewy, Allan Zentz, Maurice (Pat) Iraci
Photography - Henry Diltz
Art direction & design - Gary Burden
Recorded at Wally Heider's Studios C & A


Notes

In December 1970 Crosby, Garcia, Leash and Hart played together as a group. Garcia later spoke about this group in an interview;

We had a little band called David and the Dorks. He was the star, and it was his trip that we were doing. It was right around the time he was in the Bay Area a lot ... we did maybe two or three shows ... they weren't announced or anything; we just went in there on a Monday night and had a lot of fun, and the sound was cool. In fact, that was the core of the band that played on David's album."

Ah, thank you. What a great record. I still owe the original US-vinyl. Fantastic sound.

Anyone who hasn't heard the 5.1 mix of this that came out a few years ago is in for a real treat. One of the best surround sound albums I've ever heard.

BTW - those with Sherlock Holmes detective skills can track down the complete sessions on the internet. There's loads more really great stuff with members of the Dead, Airplane, etc

Also check out "The Wall Song" from Graham Nash/David Crosby (1972). It's from the same PERRO sessions and features Garcia, Lesh, and Kreutzmann.

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the crosby boxset has all of these tracks and gives the musician breakdown

Here's Dave's version of "Get Together" from 1964.

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Great album.

The Byrds 1967 version of Triad, which remained unreleased until 1990.

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Here's another one that remained unreleased for nearly 25 years because the Byrds didn't think it was very good.

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it really is amazing how much great material crosby, stills and nash recorded between 1966-1977.

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the crosby boxset has all of these tracks and gives the musician breakdown

I knew I should've gotten it! Must redeem now... cheers!

Some good advice from Dave on matters of the heart.

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the crosby boxset has all of these tracks and gives the musician breakdown

I knew I should've gotten it! Must redeem now... cheers!

i have the crosby and nash boxsets as well as the CSN boxset. i am waiting for the stills boxset

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it really is amazing how much great material crosby, stills and nash recorded between 1966-1977.

The other guy too.

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it really is amazing how much great material crosby, stills and nash recorded between 1966-1977.

The other guy too.

the guy who was forced into the group by label management? CSN has been around on and off for over 40 years. how many years did neil young participate? maybe 8. how many songs did he perform on deja vu? 4 i think

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it really is amazing how much great material crosby, stills and nash recorded between 1966-1977.

The other guy too.

the guy who was forced into the group by label management? CSN has been around on and off for over 40 years. how many years did neil young participate? maybe 8. how many songs did he perform on deja vu? 4 i think

You're counting Country Girl as three songs?

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it really is amazing how much great material crosby, stills and nash recorded between 1966-1977.

The other guy too.

the guy who was forced into the group by label management? CSN has been around on and off for over 40 years. how many years did neil young participate? maybe 8. how many songs did he perform on deja vu? 4 i think

You're counting Country Girl as three songs?

neil plays guitar on 2 songs and then provides lead vocals on 2 other songs correct?

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keefriffhard4life
it really is amazing how much great material crosby, stills and nash recorded between 1966-1977.

The other guy too.

the guy who was forced into the group by label management? CSN has been around on and off for over 40 years. how many years did neil young participate? maybe 8. how many songs did he perform on deja vu? 4 i think

You're counting Country Girl as three songs?

neil plays guitar on 2 songs and then provides lead vocals on 2 other songs correct?

He appears on five tracks altogether. Almost Cut My Hair, Helpless, Woodstock, Country Girl, and Everybody I Love You.

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it really is amazing how much great material crosby, stills and nash recorded between 1966-1977.

1965, too. Don't forget 'I'm Alive'!