Graham Nash David Crosby

Infobox Album
Name = Graham Nash/David Crosby
Type = Album
Artist = Crosby & Nash

Released = April 5, 1972
Recorded = 1971-1972
Genre = Rock
Length = 35:26
Label = Atlantic Records
Producer = David Crosby, Graham Nash, Bill Halverson
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=10:wranqj3bojka link]
Last album =
This album = "Graham Nash/David Crosby"
(1972)
Next album = "Wind on the Water"
(1975)|

"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 (such as Manassas), 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 album peaked at number six on the Billboard album charts, and it yielded a minor hit single in the form of "Immigration Man." 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.

Personnel

Southbound Train
*Graham Nash – acoustic guitar, harmonica, vocals
*David Crosby – acoustic guitar, vocals
*Jerry Garcia – pedal steel
*Chris Ethridge – bass
*Johny Barbata – drumsWhole Cloth
*Graham Nash – piano, vocals
*David Crosby – electric guitar, vocals
*Craig Doerge – electric piano
*Danny Kortchmar – lead guitar
*Russell Kunkel – drums
*Leland Sklar – bassBlacknotes
*Graham Nash – piano, vocals
*David Crosby – voclasStrangers Room
*Graham Nash – harmonica, piano, vocals
*David Crosby – vocals
*Craig Doerge – piano
*Danny Kortchmar – lead guitar
*Russell Kunkel – drums
*Leland Sklar – bass
*David Duke – french horn
*Arthur Maebe – french horn
*George Price – french hornWhere Will I Be?
*Graham Nash – vocals
*David Crosby – acoustic guitar, vocals
*Dana Africa – flute
*Craig Doerge – electric piano
*Leland Sklar – bassPage 43
*Graham Nash – vocals
*David Crosby – electric guitar, vocals
*Craig Doerge – piano
*Danny Kortchmar – lead guitar
*Russell Kunkel – drums
*Leland Sklar – bassFrozen Smiles
*Graham Nash – harmonica, piano, vocals
*David Crosby – electric guitar, vocals
*Craig Doerge – electric piano
*Danny Kortchmar – lead guitar
*Russell Kunkel – drums
*Leland Sklar – bassGames
*Graham Nash – vocals
*David Crosby – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, vocals
*Craig Doerge – piano
*Danny Kortchmar – lead guitar
*Russell Kunkel – drums
*Leland Sklar – bassGirl to Be on My Mind
*Graham Nash – organ, vocals
*David Crosby – electric guitar, vocals
*Craig Doerge – piano
*Danny Kortchmar – lead guitar
*Russell Kunkel – drums
*Leland Sklar – bassThe Wall Song
*Graham Nash – organ, piano, vocals
*David Crosby – electric guitar, vocals
*Jerry Garcia – lead guitar
*Phil Lesh – bass
*Bill Kreutzmann – drumsImmigration Man
*Graham Nash – piano, vocals
*David Crosby – electric guitar, vocals
*Johny Barbata – drums
*Dave Mason – lead guitar
* Greg Reeves – bass

Additional personnel

* Bill Halverson, engineer
* Doc Storch, engineer
* Robert Hammer, photography
* Elliot Roberts & David Geffen, direction
* Jean Ristori, digital mastering

Track listing

ide one

#"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

ide two

#"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

External links

* [http://www.crosbynash.com/ Crosby & Nash]