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Manassas, 1972
Written by Stephen Stills
What about that credit? This song (and album) is credited to Manassas, the group, on Wikipedia, and it's true Stills and Co. did release another album under that name. Spotify and probably some other people seem to consider this a Stills album, but I'd rather be correct than go with the crowd. So, the band is Manassas, a Stephen Still side project. This song is country-folk-bluegrass in the vein of Gram Parsons, with CSNY-style harmonies. The narrator is a proud mountain man, living alone and loving the mountains and the wind in the pines. He may want a woman to share his life, or he may not. That's up to her, he reckons. "Come a woman who wants to be near / Me and my mountains, we'll be right here."