Editing Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (section)

==Legacy and influence==
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Allison Rapp of ''[[Ultimate Classic Rock]]'' conferred the title of the "folk rockiest of all the folk rock bands" on Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rapp |first=Allison|date=2024-08-28 |title=Who Are the 'Big 4' of Folk Rock? |url=https://ultimateclassicrock.com/big-4-folk-rock/?utm_source=tsmclip&utm_medium=referral |access-date=2025-03-22 |website=Ultimate Classic Rock |language=en}}</ref>

The band's collective abilities allowed CSNY to straddle all the [[genre]]s of popular music eminent at the time, from [[country rock]] to confessional ballads, from acoustic guitars and voice to electric guitar, and three-part harmony. With the Beatles' break-up made public by April 1970, and with [[Bob Dylan]] in reclusive low-key activity since mid-1966, CSNY found themselves the adopted standard bearers for the [[Woodstock Nation]], serving an importance in society as counterculture figureheads, equaled at the time in rock and roll only by [[the Rolling Stones]] or [[the Who]]. Such was their standing in 1970 that Bill Graham referred to them as "The American Beatles".<ref>{{Cite book|last=Browne|first=David|title=Fire and Rain: The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSNY, and the Lost Story of 1970|year=2004}}</ref> Producer [[Peter Fonda]] wanted CSN to create the soundtrack for ''[[Easy Rider]]'', but director [[Dennis Hopper]] nixed the idea.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ultimateclassicrock.com/easy-rider-soundtrack/ |title=45 Years Ago: 'Easy Rider' Soundtrack Roars With Rock Hits |date=July 14, 2014 |publisher=Ultimateclassicrock.com |access-date=August 24, 2015 |archive-date=September 22, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150922061737/http://ultimateclassicrock.com/easy-rider-soundtrack/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Stills's composition, "[[Ohio (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young song)|Find the Cost of Freedom]]" (on the flip side of "Ohio"), was the only song known to be offered for the soundtrack.