Among them were Buddy Emmons - who played with the Everly Brothers, Roger Miller and Ernest Tubb - on pedal steel guitar James Burton - who recorded and played with Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Merle Haggard - on dobro and electric guitar Chris Ethridge - who would go on to play with Gram Parsons and the Flying Burrito Brothers - on bass Jim Gordon - a session drummer who backed the Everly Brothers - pianist Mike Melvin, who performed on the Beach Boys’ “Pet Sounds” album in 1966 and Frank Sinatra’s “That’s Life” album, also in 1966 Van Dyke Parks, a songwriting collaborator with Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, on piano and electric piano and Stills, fresh off the Buffalo Springfield gig, on guitar. “My producer said, ‘I want to bring you to California to make sort of a live album.’”Īnderle then put together a top-notch band in Los Angeles that included musicians with whom Collins had not previously worked. “This was an opportunity to go to California and I was thrilled to be able to do that,” Collins says.

When Collins and producer David Anderle were planning the next album, “Who Knows Where the Time Goes,” they decided to record it in Los Angeles. Stills’ band Buffalo Springfield had just broken up in May, 1968. The album featured Collins’ Top 10 hit cover of Joni Mitchell’s “Both Sides Now.” 5 on the Billboard Pop Albums charts after its release in October 1967. It was mid-1968 and Collins was coming off the success of her sixth studio album “Wildflowers,” which reached No. “He said, ‘You know, we need another song on this album,’” Collins says. Judy Collins and Stephen Stills were driving around one day in Malibu, California, when Stills had an idea. Judy Collins first met Stephen Stills when Collins was recording her seventh studio album “Who Knows Where the Time Goes” in 1968.

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