Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young - Carry On ( S1.1 )

 Session drummer Dallas Taylor:

The song was written in the middle of the Deja Vu sessions, when Nash told Stephen they still didn't have an opener for the album. It was something of a message to the group, since it had become a real struggle to keep the band together at that point. Stephen combined two unfinished songs and stuck them onto a jam we'd had out in the studio a few nights before, me on drums and Stephen on a Hammond B-3 organ.

The song was also an inspiration for Led Zeppelin, whose track "Friends" on Led Zeppelin III is generally seen as being inspired by it, including a similar slack-stringed C-tuned acoustic opening.

"Carry On"
Single by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
from the album Déjà Vu
A-side	"Teach Your Children"
Released	September 1970
Recorded	November 5, 1969
Genre	Folk rock, psychedelic rock
Length	4:26, 3:16 (radio edit)
Label	Atlantic
Songwriter(s)	Stephen Stills
Producer(s)	Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young singles chronology
"Ohio" (1970) "Carry On" (1970) "Just a Song Before I Go" (1977)