Crosby & Nash
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In addition to solo careers and within the larger aggregate of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, the musical team of David Crosby
David Crosby
David Van Cortlandt Crosby is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. In addition to his solo career, he was a founding member of three bands: The Byrds, Crosby, Stills & Nash , and CPR...

 and Graham Nash
Graham Nash
Graham William Nash, OBE is an English singer-songwriter known for his light tenor vocals and for his songwriting contributions with the British pop group The Hollies, and with the folk-rock band Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Nash is a photography collector and a published photographer...

have performed and recorded regularly as a duo, mostly during the 1970s and the 2000s.

History

After the success of Déjà Vu and the subsequent break-up of the quartet in the summer of 1970, all four members of CSNY released solo albums. Crosby's If I Could Only Remember My Name
If I Could Only Remember My Name
-External links:*...

and Nash's Songs for Beginners
Songs for Beginners
Songs for Beginners is Graham Nash's first solo album, released in May 1971, and one of four high-profile albums released by each partner of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young in the wake of their chart-topping Déjà Vu album of 1970...

appeared in 1971 and missed the top ten
Billboard 200
The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...

. That autumn, the two good friends toured together as an acoustic duo to favorable reviews, one night from which would be released twenty-seven years later as Another Stoney Evening
Another Stoney Evening
-Personnel:* David Crosby — vocal, guitar* Graham Nash — vocal, guitar, piano-Additional personnel:* Stephen Barncard — producer* Bill Halverson — recording engineer* Steve Silberman — liner notes...

. Consequently, in 1972 the two decided to record an album, resulting in Graham Nash David Crosby
Graham Nash David Crosby
Graham Nash/David Crosby is the first album by the partnership of David Crosby and Graham Nash, released on Atlantic Records in 1972, catalogue SD 7220. 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...

, which reached #4 on the Billboard 200, ensuring that the two were still a viable draw without the more successful Stills and Young. Further work together later in 1972 was precluded by Crosby's participation in The Byrds
The Byrds
The Byrds were an American rock band, formed in Los Angeles, California in 1964. The band underwent multiple line-up changes throughout its existence, with frontman Roger McGuinn remaining the sole consistent member until the group disbanded in 1973...

' reunion album
Byrds (album)
Byrds is the twelfth album by the American rock band The Byrds and was released in March 1973 on Asylum Records . It was recorded as the centerpiece of a reunion between the five original members of The Byrds: Roger McGuinn, Gene Clark, David Crosby, Chris Hillman, and Michael Clarke...

 recording sessions. In 1973, the pair joined Neil Young
Neil Young
Neil Percival Young, OC, OM is a Canadian singer-songwriter who is widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians of his generation...

 for the tour that would result in his Time Fades Away
Time Fades Away
Time Fades Away is a 1973 live album by Neil Young, consisting of previously unreleased material. It was recorded with The Stray Gators on the tour following 1972's highly successful Harvest and has not been reissued on CD due to Young's dissatisfaction with that particular series of concerts...

album, Crosby collaborated with electronica
Electronica
Electronica includes a wide range of contemporary electronic music designed for a wide range of uses, including foreground listening, some forms of dancing, and background music for other activities; however, unlike electronic dance music, it is not specifically made for dancing...

 artist and Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead
The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The band was known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, folk, bluegrass, blues, reggae, country, improvisational jazz, psychedelia, and space rock, and for live performances of long...

 associate Ned Lagin
Ned Lagin
Ned Lagin is an American avant-garde keyboardist.Lagin is considered a pioneer in the development and use of minicomputers in real-time stage and studio performance. This included running analogue to digital converters and doing digital signal processing to generate music in the era before digital...

, and Nash recorded a second solo album, Wild Tales
Wild Tales
Wild Tales is a 1973 album by Graham Nash. All songs that appear on this album were written by Graham Nash.-Track listing:All tracks composed by Graham Nash#"Wild Tales" – 2:18#"Hey You " – 2:14#"Prison Song" – 3:10...

. During this time, singularly and together they contributed backing vocals to various albums by associates in the California rock scene, including Stephen Stills
Stephen Stills (album)
Stephen Stills is an eponymous rock album by Stephen Stills, famous for his long-time membership in Crosby, Stills, & Nash. It consists of songs written by Stills and is one of four high-profile albums released by each member of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young in the wake of their 1970 chart-topping...

, Harvest, Late for the Sky
Late for the Sky
Late for the Sky is the third album by American singer/songwriter Jackson Browne, released in 1974 . It was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1975. It peaked at #14 on Billboard's Pop Albums chart...

, and Court and Spark
Court and Spark
Court and Spark is the sixth studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell. Released in January 1974, the album saw Mitchell infusing her folk-rock style, which she developed throughout her previous five albums, with jazz inflections...

.
In 1974, both dutifully joined the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young reunion tour and attempt at the recording of a new album in Hawaii
Hawaii
Hawaii is the newest of the 50 U.S. states , and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean, southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of...

, sessions for which had continued in fits and starts after commencing in late 1973. After failing to complete an album Crosby and Nash signed a contract with ABC Records
ABC Records
ABC Records was an American record label, founded in New York City in 1955 as ABC-Paramount Records. It originated as the main popular music label operated the Am-Par Record Corporation, the music subsidiary of the American Broadcasting Company . ABC-Paramount Records' first president was Samuel H....

. Presumably for contractual obligations to their old label, the cassette and 8-track tape versions of their ABC LPs were issued by Atlantic. Recording activity yielded two albums in 1975 and 1976 respectively, Wind on the Water
Wind on the Water
Wind on the Water is a 1975 album released by Crosby & Nash.This was Crosby & Nash's second album as a duo; it was also their first for ABC Records, although, interestingly, cassette and 8-track versions of the album were distributed by their previous label, Atlantic Records...

and Whistling Down the Wire
Whistling Down the Wire
Whistling Down the Wire is a 1976 album released by Crosby & Nash, the second of the duo's three album deal with ABC Records. David Crosby and Graham Nash left a potential CSN&Y reunion to record this album, leaving the other half of the quartet to form The Stills-Young Band and release Long May...

. In that bicentennial
United States Bicentennial
The United States Bicentennial was a series of celebrations and observances during the mid-1970s that paid tribute to the historical events leading up to the creation of the United States as an independent republic...

 year, Stephen Stills
Stephen Stills
Stephen Arthur Stills is an American guitarist and singer/songwriter best known for his work with Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills & Nash . He has performed on a professional level in several other bands as well as maintaining a solo career at the same time...

 and Neil Young invited the duo to a recording session for their album Long May You Run
Long May You Run
-Side two:-Personnel:* Neil Young – vocals, guitars, piano, harmonica, synthesizer* Stephen Stills – vocals, guitar, piano* Jerry Aiello – organ, piano* George "Chocolate" Perry – bass, backing vocals...

. Crosby and Nash were forced to leave the recording session because they had time constraints to complete their second album for ABC Records, so Stills and Young wiped their vocals, releasing it as The Stills-Young Band. Crosby & Nash vowed not to work with either Stills or Young again, that oath lasting not even a year as they reconvened with Stills for the second Crosby Stills & Nash album
CSN (album)
CSN is a Crosby, Stills & Nash album released in 1977, the fifth album by the group, and the first without Neil Young since his entry into the band...

 in 1977
1977 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1977.-January–February:*January 1 – The Clash headline the gala opening of the London music club, The Roxy....

.

ABC released four albums by Crosby & Nash prior to its being bought by the MCA
MCA Records
MCA Records was an American-based record company owned by MCA Inc., which later gave way to the larger MCA Music Entertainment Group , of which MCA Records was still part. MCA Records was absorbed by Geffen Records in 2003...

 conglomerate in 1979. In addition to the two abovementioned studio albums, the concert document Crosby-Nash Live
Crosby-Nash Live
Crosby-Nash Live is a 1977 album released by Crosby & Nash. It was remastered and re-released in 2000 with one previously unreleased recording , and one previously unreleased recording and song .-Track listing:...

appeared in 1977, with a compilation The Best of Crosby & Nash
The Best of Crosby & Nash
The Best of Crosby & Nash is an out of print Crosby & Nash greatest hits album released in 1978 on ABC/Atlantic Records.-Track listing:#Love Work Out #The Wall Song #Wild Tales...

in 1978. All four albums featured their backing band The Mighty Jitters, consisting of Craig Doerge
Craig Doerge
Craig Doerge is an American keyboard player, songwriter and session musician.He began playing in a college band at Hartford, Connecticut, and then moved to Los Angeles in the mid-1960s to work as a studio player and songwriter with A&M Records, and with Jim Keltner and others playing on cartoon...

, Tim Drummond
Tim Drummond
Tim Drummond is an American bass guitarist who has toured and recorded with many notable artists including Conway Twitty, Bob Dylan, James Brown, Eric Clapton, Neil Young, Crosby, Stills, & Nash, Ry Cooder, J. J. Cale, Lonnie Mack, Miles Davis, B.B...

, Danny Kortchmar
Danny Kortchmar
Danny "Kootch" Kortchmar is a guitarist, session musician, and songwriter. Kortchmar's work with singer-songwriters such as David Crosby, Carole King, Graham Nash, Carly Simon and James Taylor helped define the signature sound of the singer-songwriter era of the 1970s...

, Russ Kunkel
Russ Kunkel
Russell Kunkel , also known as Russ Kunkel, is an American drummer and producer who has worked as a session musician with a number of well-known artists.Kunkel was born in Pittsburgh, PA...

, and David Lindley
David Lindley (musician)
David Perry Lindley is an American musician who is notable for his work with Jackson Browne, Warren Zevon, and other rock musicians. He has worked extensively in other genres as well, performing with artists as varied as Curtis Mayfield and Dolly Parton...

. Session bassist Leland Sklar
Leland Sklar
Leland "Lee" Bruce Sklar is an American musician, singer-songwriter and film score composer. A prominent bass guitarist, Sklar has contributed to thousands of albums as a session musician...

 alternated with Drummond in the studio, and the line-up of Doerge, Kortchmar, Kunkel, and Sklar had previously recorded as The Section
The Section (band)
The Section was an American rock band formed in the early 1970s encompassing both studio and stage work by musicians Danny Kortchmar, Craig Doerge, Leland Sklar, and Russ Kunkel...

, providing the back up for the first Crosby & Nash album on Atlantic. Depending upon availability of the various members, the twosome would either tour as a full-blown electric-based aggregation or in a semi-acoustic format with Doerge and Lindley. When CSN reunited on a more or less permanent basis in 1977, Doerge followed the group to Miami for the CSN sessions, contributing to several songs and collaborating on writing the song "Shadow Captain" with Crosby. Crosby and Doerge continued to collaborate regularly until the early 1990s.
In 1979, Crosby & Nash attempted a new album for Capitol Records
Capitol Records
Capitol Records is a major United States based record label, formerly located in Los Angeles, but operating in New York City as part of Capitol Music Group. Its former headquarters building, the Capitol Tower, is a major landmark near the corner of Hollywood and Vine...

, but sessions were dampened by Crosby's increased dependence upon freebase cocaine. Sessions eventually appeared on Nash's Earth & Sky
Earth & Sky (album)
-Track listing:All tracks composed by Graham Nash; except where indicated#"Earth & Sky" – 3:35#"Love Has Come" – 3:27#"Out of the Island" – 4:20#"Skychild" – 3:55#"Helicopter Song" – 2:47#"Barrel of Pain" – 5:16#"TV Guide" – 1:54...

without any songs from Crosby. Crosby's problems during the 1980s with drugs, and his prison time, precluded any duo activity with Nash, the pair appearing on the CSN and CSNY albums of that decade. The 1990 CSN album Live It Up
Live It Up (CSN album)
Live It Up is an album released in 1990 by Crosby, Stills & Nash, produced by the band with Joe Vitale and J. Stanley Johnson.-Track listing:1. "Live It Up" – 3:54...

started as a Crosby & Nash record, but like its predecessor Daylight Again
Daylight Again
Daylight Again is a 1982 studio album by the band Crosby, Stills & Nash, their fourth of completely original material, and seventh in total. It peaked at #8 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart, the final time the band has made the top ten to date...

which was initially sessions for a Stills & Nash effort, Atlantic Records refused to release anything that didn't include the full trio.

In 2004, Crosby & Nash released their first original studio record since 1976 with the double-album Crosby & Nash
Crosby & Nash (album)
Crosby & Nash is a double album released by David Crosby and Graham Nash of CSNY in 2004.-Track listing:#"Lay Me Down" – 3:37#"Puppeteer" – 4:06#"Through Here Quite Often" – 4:05#"Grace" – 0:46...

on Sanctuary Records
Sanctuary Records
Sanctuary Records Group Limited was a record label based in the United Kingdom and a subsidiary of Universal Music Group. Until June 2007, it was the largest independent record label in the UK and the largest independent music management company in the world...

, which featured backing mostly by members of Crosby's band CPR. A single CD version was released in 2006 when CSNY began its "Freedom of Speech '06" tour. On the Graham Nash box set Reflections
Reflections (Box Set)
Reflections is a career-spanning 3-CD Graham Nash box with groups including The Hollies, CSN plus previously unreleased material.-Track listing:Disc One:#On A Carousel - The Hollies#Carrie Anne - The Hollies...

, released in February 2009, the last track "In Your Name" was recorded on 21 October 2007 by the same band used for the 2004 Crosby & Nash
Crosby & Nash (album)
Crosby & Nash is a double album released by David Crosby and Graham Nash of CSNY in 2004.-Track listing:#"Lay Me Down" – 3:37#"Puppeteer" – 4:06#"Through Here Quite Often" – 4:05#"Grace" – 0:46...

album, including David Crosby on backing vocals.

Other work

In addition to their album work, Crosby & Nash were the harmony vocalists of choice for a number of prominent singer-songwriters and album-oriented rock
Album-oriented rock
Album-oriented rock is an American FM radio format focusing on album tracks by rock artists.-Music played:Most radio formats are based on a select, tight rotation of hit singles...

 performers in the mid to late 1970s. Among their most recognizable session work is for the hit singles "Free Man in Paris
Free Man in Paris
"Free Man In Paris" is a song written by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell. It appeared on her 1974 album Court and Spark, as well as her live album Shadows and Light. It is one of her most popular songs...

" by Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell, CC is a Canadian musician, singer songwriter, and painter. Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in her native Saskatchewan and Western Canada and then busking in the streets and dives of Toronto...

 in 1974, "Mexico" by James Taylor
James Taylor
James Vernon Taylor is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. A five-time Grammy Award winner, Taylor was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2000....

 in 1975, and "The Pretender
The Pretender (Jackson Browne song)
"The Pretender" is a song by American rock performer, Jackson Browne and featured on his 1976 album The Pretender.- History :"The Pretender" was composed in a number of locations; Los Angeles, within a rented store-front in North Hollywood and a "tacky" hotel in Hawaii being two of them...

" by Jackson Browne
Jackson Browne
Jackson Browne is an American singer-songwriter and musician who has sold over 17 million albums in the United States alone....

 in 1976. They also appeared on albums by Dave Mason
Dave Mason
David Thomas "Dave" Mason is an English singer, songwriter, and guitarist from Worcester, who first found fame with the rock band Traffic...

, J.D. Souther, Elton John
Elton John
Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE, Hon DMus is an English rock singer-songwriter, composer, pianist and occasional actor...

, Art Garfunkel
Art Garfunkel
Arthur Ira "Art" Garfunkel is an American singer-songwriter, poet, and actor, best known as being a member of the folk duo Simon & Garfunkel...

, Gary Wright
Gary Wright
Gary Malcolm Wright is an American musician, best known for his song, "Dream Weaver". He was the piano player on Harry Nilsson's version of "Without You".-Early life:...

, Carole King
Carole King
Carole King is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. King and her former husband Gerry Goffin wrote more than two dozen chart hits for numerous artists during the 1960s, many of which have become standards. As a singer, King had an album, Tapestry, top the U.S...

, and David Gilmour
David Gilmour
David Jon Gilmour, CBE, D.M. is an English rock musician and multi-instrumentalist who is best known as the guitarist, one of the lead singers and main songwriters in the progressive rock band Pink Floyd. In addition to his work with Pink Floyd, Gilmour has worked as a producer for a variety of...

, as recently as 2005 for the recording of On An Island
On an Island
On an Island is the third solo album by David Gilmour, best known as vocalist and lead guitarist for Pink Floyd. It was released in the UK on 6 March 2006, Gilmour's 60th birthday, and in the United States the following day. It was Gilmour's first new solo album in 22 years...

.

Discography

See also discographies for Crosby Stills Nash & Young
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young discography
The discography of American/British/Canadian supergroup Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young is composed of 8 studio albums, 3 live albums, 5 compilation albums, 4 video albums, one music video, 19 singles, 1 guest single, and 1 soundtrack appearance....

, and individually for David Crosby and Graham Nash.
Date of release
Title
Peak Billboard chart position
RIAA Certifications
Label
Information
April 5, 1972
Graham Nash David Crosby
Graham Nash David Crosby
Graham Nash/David Crosby is the first album by the partnership of David Crosby and Graham Nash, released on Atlantic Records in 1972, catalogue SD 7220. 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...

#4
Gold
Atlantic Records
Atlantic Records
Atlantic Records is an American record label best known for its many recordings of rhythm and blues, rock and roll, and jazz...

Studio
September 15, 1975
Wind on the Water
Wind on the Water
Wind on the Water is a 1975 album released by Crosby & Nash.This was Crosby & Nash's second album as a duo; it was also their first for ABC Records, although, interestingly, cassette and 8-track versions of the album were distributed by their previous label, Atlantic Records...

#6
Gold
ABC Records
ABC Records
ABC Records was an American record label, founded in New York City in 1955 as ABC-Paramount Records. It originated as the main popular music label operated the Am-Par Record Corporation, the music subsidiary of the American Broadcasting Company . ABC-Paramount Records' first president was Samuel H....

Studio
June 25, 1976
Whistling Down the Wire
Whistling Down the Wire
Whistling Down the Wire is a 1976 album released by Crosby & Nash, the second of the duo's three album deal with ABC Records. David Crosby and Graham Nash left a potential CSN&Y reunion to record this album, leaving the other half of the quartet to form The Stills-Young Band and release Long May...

#26
Gold
ABC Records
Studio
October 31, 1977
Crosby-Nash Live
Crosby-Nash Live
Crosby-Nash Live is a 1977 album released by Crosby & Nash. It was remastered and re-released in 2000 with one previously unreleased recording , and one previously unreleased recording and song .-Track listing:...

#52
ABC Records
Live
October 1978
The Best of Crosby & Nash
The Best of Crosby & Nash
The Best of Crosby & Nash is an out of print Crosby & Nash greatest hits album released in 1978 on ABC/Atlantic Records.-Track listing:#Love Work Out #The Wall Song #Wild Tales...

#150
ABC Records
Compilation
January 13, 1998
Another Stoney Evening
Another Stoney Evening
-Personnel:* David Crosby — vocal, guitar* Graham Nash — vocal, guitar, piano-Additional personnel:* Stephen Barncard — producer* Bill Halverson — recording engineer* Steve Silberman — liner notes...

Grateful Dead Records
Grateful Dead Records
In 1973, the Grateful Dead established their own record label, Grateful Dead Records. The band released several vinyl record LPs on this label in the mid-1970s, including Wake of the Flood in 1973, From the Mars Hotel in 1974, Blues for Allah in 1975, and a live double album, Steal Your Face, in...

Live
May 16, 2000
Bittersweet
Wind on the Water
Wind on the Water is a 1975 album released by Crosby & Nash.This was Crosby & Nash's second album as a duo; it was also their first for ABC Records, although, interestingly, cassette and 8-track versions of the album were distributed by their previous label, Atlantic Records...

 repackaging of Wind on the Water
Wind on the Water
Wind on the Water is a 1975 album released by Crosby & Nash.This was Crosby & Nash's second album as a duo; it was also their first for ABC Records, although, interestingly, cassette and 8-track versions of the album were distributed by their previous label, Atlantic Records...

Hallmark Records
Hallmark Records
Hallmark Records is a British record label. It was founded in the 1960s and recently revived. The revived company has since become a major publisher of budget CDs in the UK, issuing both public domain and copyrighted material. The company has also re-issued some of its albums from the 1960s and...

Studio
October 15, 2002
The Best of Crosby & Nash: The ABC Years
The Best of Crosby & Nash: The ABC Years
The Best of Crosby & Nash: The ABC Years is a compilation album from the duo of David Crosby and Graham Nash which was remastered and released in 2002...

MCA Records
MCA Records
MCA Records was an American-based record company owned by MCA Inc., which later gave way to the larger MCA Music Entertainment Group , of which MCA Records was still part. MCA Records was absorbed by Geffen Records in 2003...

Compilation
August 10, 2004
Crosby & Nash
Crosby & Nash (album)
Crosby & Nash is a double album released by David Crosby and Graham Nash of CSNY in 2004.-Track listing:#"Lay Me Down" – 3:37#"Puppeteer" – 4:06#"Through Here Quite Often" – 4:05#"Grace" – 0:46...

#142
Sanctuary Records
Studio
July 18, 2006
Crosby & Nash: Highlights
Crosby & Nash: Highlights
Crosby & Nash Highlights is a shortened version of 2004's Crosby & Nash.-Track listing:#"Lay Me Down" – 3:37#"Milky Way Tonight" – 3:25#"Don't Dig Here" – 6:10#"Penguin in a Palm Tree" – 3:50...

Sanctuary Records
Sampler

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