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- “Guinnevere” (1969) Imagine it’s 1969 and you just bought CSN’s debut album. It opens with the seven-minute “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes,” followed by the rollicking “Marrakesh Express.”
- “Long Time Gone” (1969) At the end of the turbulent Sixties, Crosby was still making sense of the decade. The gentle, elegiac “Long Time Gone,” from the first CSN album, reflects his frame of mind.
- “Deja Vu” (1970) More than 50 years ago — long before Olivia Rodrigo or Beyoncé felt any kind of eerie familiarity in the back of their minds — there was this dazzling CSNY title track.
- “Almost Cut My Hair” (1970) One of the bleeding-heart fan favorites from Deja Vu might never have been on the album had David Crosby not fought for its inclusion.
- “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes” The hit song was on their 1969 debut album, “Crosby, Stills and Nash.” The “Judy” in the song is a reference to Judy Collins, who was Stephen Stills' former girlfriend.
- “Our House” “Our House” was written by Graham Nash when he was living with then girlfriend, Joni Mitchell. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young recorded the song for their 1970 album Déjà Vu.
- “Teach Your Children” The song first debuted on the 1970 album Déjà Vu by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. The record is considered one of finest rock albums.
- “Southern Cross” This hit song was featured the “Daylight Again” record and then released as a single in album and was released as a single in 1982. David Crosby’s vocals are not on the album.
- Suite Judy Blue Eyes (1969) Another deft amalgamation - as the title implies, this is a suite of four short songs written by Stills and seamlessly interwoven.
- Ohio (1970) Composed by Neil Young in pained reaction to the Kent State shootings of May 4, 1970, Ohio was rush-released as a single, scoring them a Billboard Top 20 hit.
- Wooden Ships (1969) Co-written by Jefferson Airplane’s Paul Kantner (their version appears on the Airplane’s Volunteers album), this captivating tale of survival in a nuclear holocaust is wrapped around an arrangement that mirrors the ominous undertones of the subject matter.
- Carry On (1970) Here Stephen Stills brings elements of three different songs into one concise package. He draws on Questions from his old band Buffalo Springfield, plus there’s a jam session with drummer Dallas Taylor tagged on as a delightful free-form coda.
- The Byrds – “What’s Happening?!?!”
- Crosby, Stills & Nash – “Wooden Ships”
- David Crosby – “What Are Their Names”
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – “Compass”
- David Crosby – “Time I Have”
- Crosby & Nash – “Carry Me”
- The Byrds – “Lady Friend”
- David Crosby – “Cowboy Movie”
- Crosby, Stills & Nash – “Guinnevere”
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – “Almost Cut My Hair”
Gene Clark and Roger McGuinn wrote most of the original songs on the Byrds’ massively successful first two albums, with Crosby only co-writing “Wait and See” with McGuinn on 1965’s Turn! Turn! Turn! But when Clark left the band in 1966, Crosby stepped up his contributions on Fifth Dimension, co-writing several songs and contributing a couple lines ...
Crosby and Stills wrote the antiwar epic “Wooden Ships” with Jefferson Airplane’s Paul Kantner, who initially could not be credited as a writer on Crosby, Stills & Nash’s 1969 debut due to a legal dispute with Jefferson Airplane’s management. Later that year, the Airplane released a different arrangement of the song on the album Volunteers, and bot...
In 1971, Crosby released his first solo album, If I Could Only Remember My Name, with an all-star supporting cast. The project was certified gold, but its jazzy explorations were panned by critics like Lester Bangs and Robert Christgau and didn’t yield hit singles like the solo Stills, Nash, and Young material that followed CSNY’s Déjà Vu. Over the...
Crosby hit rock bottom as a heroin and cocaine addict in the ‘80s, spending nine months in a Texas prison in 1985 and 1986. “In prison, I woke up in a cell, remembered who I was, and started writing again. And that was the beginning of the road back. ‘Compass’ was the first decent song,” Crosby recounted in the 2019 documentary David Crosby: Rememb...
Five of Crosby’s eight solo albums were released in the last decade of his life, a renewed prolific period kicked off by 2014’s Croz, recorded in his son James Raymond’s home studio. Crosby focused on vocals on his later albums as tendonitis in his hands hampered his ability to play guitar, but he continued to speak his mind frankly in his lyrics. ...
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young split in 1970, and the quartet splintered into on-again, off-again factions throughout the decade. Crosby and Nash released four albums as a duo, while the Stills-Young Band produced a lone full-length in 1976. “Carry Me” was the lead single from Crosby & Nash’s second set, 1975’s Wind on the Water. The song’s poignant ...
The only Byrds A-side penned solely by Crosby, “Lady Friend” was a non-album single released between 1967’s Younger Than Yesterday and 1968’s The Notorious Byrd Brothers. The song only reached No. 89 on the BillboardHot 100, but its bright harmonies and surging rhythms marked it as something of a proto-power pop song, later covered by Flamin’ Groov...
One of Crosby’s more fleeting supergroups was David & the Dorks, the name under which he played the San Francisco club the Matrix with the Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, and Mickey Hart in 1970. All three backed Crosby on the eight-minute “Cowboy Movie” from If I Could Only Remember My Name, with lyrics that cast the members of CSNY as ch...
By the time the Byrds made 1968’s The Notorious Byrd Brothers, Crosby was fascinated with jazz and Indian sitar music, and writing increasingly ambitious songs in unorthodox guitar tunings and time signatures like the 5/4 “Tribal Gathering.” The Byrds fired Crosby during the sessions, and while some of his songs remained on the album, Crosby later ...
Crosby and the other members of the Byrds transformed from short-haired folkies to long-haired hippies during the band’s first few years together. Even when some reconsidered their hairstyles at the turn of the new decade, Crosby swore off scissors in one of the era’s defining anthems: “I wonder why I feel like letting my freak flag fly / Yes, I fe...
- "Delta" (1982) This often overlooked paean was Crosby’s only contribution to CSN’s Daylight Again album, as he wasn’t in the best shape at the time. He made it count, though; “Delta” is romantic and soulful, and somewhat surprisingly straightforward, with a gently dynamic ebb and flow rich with subtleties and enriched by the trio’s lush harmonies.
- "Deja Vu" (1970) In many ways the title track from the first CSNY album is the prototypical Crosby cut — intricate, idiosyncratic, metaphysical, experimental and unclassifiable.
- "Eight Miles High"/"Why?" (1966) Forgive us for cheating a bit here and getting in an extra song. Crosby was part of the triumvirate, with Gene Clark and Jim “Roger” McGuinn, that wrote The Byrds’ psychedelic A-side classic — though the late Clark maintained that Crosby’s contribution was just one line: “rain gray town/ known for its sound” (a reference to London).
- "Everybody's Been Burned" (1967) On the A side, The Byrds were singing about wanting to be rock ‘n’ roll stars; flip it over and you had Crosby cautioning about “why you shouldn’t try to love someone” — a far cry from the later “Triad,” in which he expounded the virtues of loving more than one at a time.
Jan 19, 2023 · A look back at the best tracks from throughout David Crosby's career with the Byrds, Crosby Stills and Nash and as a solo artist.
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