Yeah, Chris Hillman was in Manasas also, and they covered some Burrito Bros tunes, along with original tunes. I was never wild about them, although I think that I saw them once or twice.

(I think also that the story was that Hillman stole Still's gf from him around that time but for whatever that is worth.)

I was never wild about them

I'm not wild about them, but it's fun to run across something like this that I had no idea even existed before. I like knowing that there's a tiny bit more Burrito-esque music to listen to than I did before.

After Woodstock and through the 70s, CSNY could do no wrong by their fans, either solo or in its variations. They appealed most to that generation whose older brothers and sisters adored Bob Dylan and the Beatles. When I went to college in the late 70s, anyone who played an acoustic guitar was generally a CSNY fan, and vice versa.

I learned that the couple Stephen Stills albums I bought were from his valleys, and I never went back to check out his best. I may have to fix that today.

Stills is an enigma to me. Here you have this person with an incredibly expressive and unusual voice, an uncanny melodic sense, a knack for some seriously unexpected song structuring, including out-of-left-field chord changes and wild intervals, a creator of some really unique tunings, and a good way with lyrics....and his modus operandi seems to have always been coming up with a really awesome verse and a half and one chorus of a song, and then kind of dropping it there. He doesn't seem to have follow-through, or to have the grit to return to his inspirations and actually do the boring, hard, slogging work of turning a great couple of hooks into a complete song. So his oeuvre, to me, consists of many moments of pure musical genius occurring between long flat plains of semi-dreck.

LT says my complex criticism of the weaker aspects of Stills' songwriting approach basically boils down to "dude smokes too much pot," and I have to admit that this seems entirely believable. Still, the high points are worth the journey.

"dude smokes too much pot" - Well, given the era, I'd say some things stronger were involved, but yeah. However, your points are just as valid and probably why their collaborations produced stronger songs.