Love's musical achievements have included the industry's highest awards including
RIAA certification, gold, platinum and multi platinum recording for
Garden Party with
Ricky Nelson and the Stone Canyon Band. The record sold more than eight million copies worldwide and ranked number one on Billboard Adult contemporary and number six on the industries Billboard chart. Rick Nelson awarded Stephen' song "Let It Bring You Along" as the first song on the "Garden Party" album. Love was a member of "Roger McGuinn Band " for three years, later to be billed as "The Byrds" on tour. All the famous songs recorded by "The Byrds" were performed nightly encompassing over 800 concerts in the US and Europe for three years. He composed the opening song of the album once again "Somebody Loves You" sang in unison with original Byrd leader Roger McGuinn. In 1976, Love joined as bassist/guitarist/lead singer the internationally known "New Riders of the Purple Sage" originally including Jerry Garcia from
The Grateful Dead recording two albums with "Another Night In Reno" as the single released on "Who Are Those Guys" and composing the entire side of "Marin County Line" produced by Jim Ed Norman. He performed at the biggest concert of the year in 1977 with the
New Riders of the Purple Sage, ==Discography==