Unlike the meticulous work of their past, this collaborative album is painstakingly directionless. Unfortunately, Everybody Knows is the sound of two classic artists playing the 18th hole of their intertwined and decorated careers. Even at this advanced stage in their respective careers, an album focusing on the past made more sense than cobbling together a potentially substandard collection of originals. Everybody Knows, a covers album that primarily features unreleased and lesser-known songs from their catalog, should have been an easy undertaking. Joining forces on an album was long overdue for the folk rock legends. As two of the dominant voices of then-burgeoning Sunset Strip, the duo’s songwriting and distinct singing abilities put Los Angeles folk rock at the center of the music universe, and for a year during the late ‘60s, became romantically entangled. It’s been 50 years since Stephen Stills and Judy Collins were fresh-faced, wide-eyed folkies ready to take on the music world.
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