Marrakesh Express - Crosby, Stills & Nash (cover-live by Bill Sharkey)

Marrakesh Express (Crosby, Stills & Nash, 1969). Live cover performance by Bill Sharkey, Home Studio, Hawaii Kai, HI. 2021-09-20. "Keeping the Oldies Alive"

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"Marrakesh Express" was Crosby, Stills & Nash's (CS&N) first entry onto the Billboard Hot 100 chart climbing to #28 in 1969, this was before Neil Young joined the group. According to Graham Nash, the writer of the song, he was on a train trip from Casablanca to Marrakesh; while in third class he saw that "there were lots of people cooking strange little meals on small wooden stoves and the place was full of chickens, pigs and goats. It was fabulous; the whole thing was fascinating” (R. Hughes, loudersound.com, April 24, 2014). He wrote the song based on his experience a year later while touring with his band The Hollies, who also partially recorded the song but never completed it (R. Hughes, loudersound.com, April 24, 2014). The Woodstock Music Festival, August 18, 1969, was the first time CS&N performed the song publicly (Wikipedia, 2021). CS&N were one of the super groups to form in the late '60s: David Crosby came from The Byrds; Steven Stills came from Buffalo Springfield; Graham Nash came from The Hollies (J. Doyle, pophistorydig.com, Nov. 18, 2018).