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Graham Nash/David Crosby is the first album by the partnership of the David Crosby and Graham Nash subset of the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young collective, unsurprisingly known as Crosby & Nash. Issued on Atlantic Records, it peaked at #4 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart, and a single taken from the album, "Immigration Man," peaked at #36 on the Billboard Hot 100 on June 10, 1972. The album was dedicated to Joni Mitchell, as "Miss Mitchell."
After the split of CSNY in the summer of 1970, all four members would release solo albums over the course of the ensuing twelve months. While both Neil Young and Stephen Stills would pursue independent band projects through the decade, Crosby and Nash embarked on a series of concerts together in 1971, deciding to take the new songs audited on the road into the recording studio. Sessions for this album featured backing from members of The Grateful Dead on one track and the CSNY band on another, but mostly from The Section, consisting of Craig Doerge, Danny Kortchmar, Leland Sklar, and Russell Kunkel. This quartet would be among the most in-demand session musicians on the West Coast in the 1970s, appearing on dozens of albums, notably those by James Taylor and Carole King. They would continue to work with Crosby & Nash for the remainder of the decade, both in the studio and on tour.
The songs continued the qualities that marked the pair's work with the larger aggregate, with Nash writing tighter pop songs including the album's hit, and Crosby exploring mood pieces and introspection, all amidst strong vocal harmonies. The commercial success of this album, outstripping that of the two solo albums by Nash and Crosby from the previous year, prompted Crosby & Nash to continue as a unit until the more or less permanent reunion with Stills in 1977. During the heyday of the California sound of the seventies, they would release two more studio albums, Wind on the Water in 1975 and Whistling Down the Wire in 1976, in addition to working frequently as session vocalists, gracing many recordings of like artists with their mellifluous harmonies. They released one contemporary concert record, Crosby-Nash Live in 1977, and an archive document of their tour from 1971, appearing in 1998 as Another Stoney Evening. Their fourth studio album credited to Crosby & Nash arrived in 2004, twenty-eight years after the previous one.
This album was reissued for compact disc in 1998 in Europe as part of the Atlantic Original Sound series, with a re-release of 50 titles in celebration of Atlantic Records' fiftieth anniversary.
[edit] Personnel
- David Crosby, vocals, guitars
- Graham Nash, vocals, piano, harmonica, organ, guitar
- Danny Kortchmar, guitars
- Craig Doerge, piano, electric piano, organ
- Leland Sklar, bass
- Russell Kunkel, drums
- Jerry Garcia, guitar, pedal steel guitar
- Phil Lesh, bass
- Bill Kreutzmann, drums
- Dave Mason, guitar
- Chris Ethridge, bass
- Johnny Barbata, drums
- Greg Reeves, bass
- David Duke, French horn
- Arthur Maebe, French horn
- George Price, French horn
- Dana Africa, flute
[edit] Additional personnel
- Bill Halverson, engineer
- Doc Storch, engineer
- Robert Hammer, photography
- Elliot Roberts & David Geffen, direction
- Jean Ristori, digital mastering
[edit] Track listing
- "Southbound Train" (Nash) – 3:54
- "Whole Cloth" (Crosby) – 4:35
- "Blacknotes" (Nash) – 0:58
- "Strangers Room" (Nash) – 2:28
- "Where Will I Be?" (Crosby) – 3:22
- "Page 43" (Crosby) – 2:56
- "Frozen Smiles" (Nash) – 2:17
- "Games" (Crosby) – 4:02
- "Girl to Be on My Mind" (Nash) – 3:27
- "The Wall Song" (Crosby) – 4:37
- "Immigration Man" (Nash) – 3:02
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