Manassas is the 1972 debut double album

Double album

A double album is an audio album which spans two units of the primary medium in which it is sold, typically records and compact discs....

 from Stephen Stills

Stephen Stills

Stephen Arthur Stills is an American guitarist and singer/songwriter best known for his work with Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills & Nash . He has performed on a professional level in several other bands as well as maintaining a solo career at the same time...

' band of the same name.

"It Doesn't Matter" was released as a single and peaked at #61. Bill Wyman

Bill Wyman

Bill Wyman is an English musician best known as the bass guitarist for the English rock and roll band the Rolling Stones from 1962 until 1992. Since 1997, he has recorded and toured with his own band, Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings...

 of the Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones are an English rock band, formed in London in April 1962 by Brian Jones , Ian Stewart , Mick Jagger , and Keith Richards . Bassist Bill Wyman and drummer Charlie Watts completed the early line-up...

 plays bass on and co-authored "The Love Gangster" and is reported to have said that he would have left the Stones to join Manassas.

Manassas would mark somewhat of a critical comeback for Stills with Allmusic going so far as to call it a "sprawling masterpiece". Even Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone

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in a joint review with the Graham Nash/David Crosby

Graham Nash David Crosby

Graham Nash/David Crosby is the first album by the partnership of David Crosby and Graham Nash, released on Atlantic Records in 1972, catalogue SD 7220. It peaked at #4 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart, and a single taken from the album, "Immigration Man," peaked at #36 on the Billboard Hot...

album, said
"[i]t's reassuring to know that Stills has some good music still inside him".

Chart Performance

The album debuted on the Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

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Top LP's chart for the week ending April 29, 1972 and eventually peaked at #4 in June. Interestingly, Stills' album shared the Top 10 with an album by David Crosby

David Crosby

David Van Cortlandt Crosby is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. In addition to his solo career, he was a founding member of three bands: The Byrds, Crosby, Stills & Nash , and CPR...

 and Graham Nash

Graham Nash

Graham William Nash, OBE is an English singer-songwriter known for his light tenor vocals and for his songwriting contributions with the British pop group The Hollies, and with the folk-rock band Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Nash is a photography collector and a published photographer...

 (Graham Nash/David Crosby) and an album by Neil Young

Neil Young

Neil Percival Young, OC, OM is a Canadian singer-songwriter who is widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians of his generation...

 (Harvest), all collectively members of the quartet Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.

Track listing

All songs by Stephen Stills except as noted; the four suites of music correspond to the four sides of the album's original LP release.

The Raven

1. "Song of Love" – 3:28
2. Medley – 3:34

   "Rock & Roll Crazies" (Stephen Stills, Dallas Taylor)

   "Cuban Bluegrass" (Stephen Stills, Joe Lala)

3. "Jet Set (Sigh)" – 4:25
4. "Anyway" – 3:21
5. "Both of Us (Bound to Lose)" (Stephen Stills, Chris Hillman) – 3:00

The Wilderness

1. "Fallen Eagle" – 2:03
2. "Jesus Gave Love Away for Free" – 2:59
3. "Colorado" – 2:50
4. "So Begins the Task" – 3:57
5. "Hide It So Deep" – 2:44
6. "Don't Look at My Shadow" – 2:30

Consider

1. "It Doesn't Matter" (Chris Hillman, Rick Roberts
   Rick Roberts (musician)
   Rick Roberts is a country rock and classic rock singer-songwriter who recorded with many influential artists over several genres in the 1970s. He is best known for his work with The Flying Burrito Brothers on their 1971 self-titled album, and as a founding member and lead singer of Firefall from...
   
   , Stephen Stills) – 2:30
   • Note: Original releases of Manassas do not credit Roberts as a co-author.
2. "Johnny's Garden" – 2:45
3. "Bound to Fall" (Mike Brewer, Tom Mastin) – 1:53
   • Note: Original releases of Manassas do not credit Mastin as a co-author.
4. "How Far" – 2:49
5. "Move Around" – 4:15
6. "The Love Gangster" (Stephen Stills, Bill Wyman) – 2:51

Rock & Roll is Here to Stay

1. "What to Do" – 4:44
2. "Right Now" – 2:58
3. "The Treasure (Take One)" – 8:03
4. "Blues Man" – 4:04
   • In tribute: Jimi Hendrix
     Jimi Hendrix
     James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix was an American guitarist and singer-songwriter...
     
     , Al Wilson
     Alan Wilson (musician)
     Alan "Blind Owl" Christie Wilson was the leader, singer, and primary composer in the American blues band Canned Heat. He played guitar and harmonica, and wrote most of the songs for the band.-Early years:...
     
     , Duane Allman
     Duane Allman
     Howard Duane Allman was an American guitarist, session musician and the primary co-founder of the southern rock group The Allman Brothers Band...
     
     .

Personnel

• Stephen Stills
  Stephen Stills
  Stephen Arthur Stills is an American guitarist and singer/songwriter best known for his work with Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills & Nash . He has performed on a professional level in several other bands as well as maintaining a solo career at the same time...
  
   - vocals, guitar, bottleneck guitar, piano, organ, electric piano, clavinette
• Chris Hillman
  Chris Hillman
  Christopher Hillman was one of the original members of The Byrds which in 1965 included Roger McGuinn, Gene Clark, David Crosby, and Michael Clarke....
  
   - vocals, guitar, mandolin
• Al Perkins
  Al Perkins
  Al Perkins is a Texas-born American guitarist. The Gibson guitar company called Perkins "the world's most influential Dobro player", and even began producing an "Al Perkins Signature" Dobro in 2001 - designed and autographed by Perkins....
  
   - steel guitar, guitar, vocals
• Calvin "Fuzzy" Samuel - bass
• Paul Harris
  Paul Harris (musician)
  Paul Harris is a keyboards player and session musician.Harris appears on several albums of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s by leading artists such as Stephen Stills, B. B. King, Judy Collins, Al Kooper, ABBA, Eric Andersen, Rick Derringer, Nick Drake, John Sebastian, Joe Walsh, Seals & Crofts and Dan...
  
   - organ, tack piano, piano, organ, electric piano, clavinette
• Dallas Taylor
  Dallas Taylor (drummer)
  Dallas Woodrow Taylor Jr. was born in Denver, Colorado, 7 April 1948. He is a session drummer who has played on several rock records of the 1960s and 1970s...
  
   - drums
• Joe Lala
  Joe Lala
  Joe Lala is an actor and voice actor, notable for his dubbing of Kun Lan of the video-game Killer7.He also played drums and percussion on 32 gold and 28 platinum albums. His credits include Blues Image, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Manassas, The Bee Gees, Whitney Houston, and many...
  
   - percussion, vocals

Additional personnel

• Sydney George - harmonica
• Jerry Aiello - piano, organ, electric piano, clavinette
• Bill Wyman
  Bill Wyman
  Bill Wyman is an English musician best known as the bass guitarist for the English rock and roll band the Rolling Stones from 1962 until 1992. Since 1997, he has recorded and toured with his own band, Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings...
  
   - bass
• Roger Bush - acoustic bass
• Byron Berline
  Byron Berline
  Byron Berline is an American fiddle player.-Biography:Berline started playing the fiddle at age five and quickly developed a talent for it. In 1965, he recorded the album Pickin' and Fiddlin with the Dillards...
  
  - fiddle