Stills began recording a solo album in 1973 under the tentative title As I Come of Age, and it was "almost completed" by February 1974.

[2] Stills signed with Columbia early in 1975 and turned in this album, "a collection of tracks Stephen had been working on over the preceding several years" including "much of the material recorded for As I Come of Age".

[7] "First Things First" written by Stills and the bass player for Three Dog Night Joe Schermie and was played quite frequently along with the 'Myth of Sisyphus' and 'My Angel' on the CSNY 1974 tour.

The cover photo was shot at Neil Young's Broken Arrow Ranch during rehearsals for the CSNY 1974 tour.

[8] The back cover features Donnie Dacus and Stills playing acoustic guitars together.

1974, Track cut live in studio in Sausalito and then Kenny recut the bass.

1973, Back track is Russ on drums, Leland bass, Stephen piano.

Cut the basic, bass and second rhythm, then Tubby overdubbed the drums, with Stills hanging over his shoulder with a tambourine.

Old friend Conrad Isidore on drums, Joe's conga and percussion, Jerry on piano and organ, Donnie on rhythm guitar.

Don and Claudia Lanier later got background vocals together with Halverson in Los Angeles.

Stills, supported the album with his longest tour as a solo artist, playing arenas throughout North America.

In retrospect Stills has commented on his mid-70's solo period saying he "short-circuited for a while, things were moving too fast.

[16] Record World said "Stills was back with that patented mellow sound" and cited "My Angel", "First Things First", and "Shuffle Just as Bad" as highlights.

[17] Cash Box said Stills "takes his best lyrical and instrumental chops to form a springboard from which he moves easily amid different musical shades", and pointed to "As I Come of Age" as a highlight.

[18] Village Voice critic Robert Christgau was largely unenthusiastic, describing the album as the one "in which Stills recycles his 'favorite set of changes/Already good for a couple of songs.'

It's a laid-back record, to use a hackneyed term, and deliberately underproduced to the extent where the music oozes rather than bounces from the speakers.

Finishing the review by saying "maybe there's no new direction, but I always thought he found it somewhere years back and got lost in between.

This was Stills biggest tour as a solo artist playing across North America.

1975 Winter Tour All songs written by Stephen Stills, except where noted.