Treetop Flyer

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Stephen Stills, singer/songwriter born on 3 January 1945 in Dallas, Texas, USA, and currently based in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was a member of Buffalo Springfield, composing and singing the famous anti-war song "For What It's Worth", originally released as a single (ATCO Records # 45-6459), and subsequently appearing on the 2nd edition of their 1967 debut album Buffalo Springfield. He was also in the super-group Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young which released the anti-war single Ohio / Find the Cost of Freedom, about the Kent State shooting, with Young composing the A-side, and Stills the b-side. In 1971 he released the song "Relaxing Town" on the solo album Stephen Stills 2 which contained a reference to the Chicago Eight demonstrations. In the post-war period, in 1991, Stills released the song "Treetop Flyer" on the album Stills Alone, about a Vietnam War vet who used is flying skills, gained in Vietnam, to smuggle drugs under the radar. Stephen Stills kicked off the 1990s with the song "Treetop Flyer" about a Vietnam veteran who used his flying skills back in the US to smuggle drugs, as the narrator explained: he was "over in Vietnam, chasin' NVA", and the US…

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

About the artist

American singer-songwriter, born 3 January 1945 in Dallas, Texas ('For What It's Worth'). [Source: Wikipedia]