Graham Nash / David Crosby

Crosby & Nash, Graham Nash | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rhino
• ASIN: B0019K06WM
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #14,264 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Remastered Atlantic Anniversary Edition Reissue of their Debut 1971 Duo Release. Guests Include Joni Mitchell and the Grateful Dead. Their Finest Album. Unavailable in the USA !. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

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32 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Vintage Crosby & Nash, June 23, 2004

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Juan Mobili (Valley Cottage, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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Finally, after eons out of print, Atlantic made available again this gem from the early 70's, a great album even in the context of the great music that was still being created, regularly, back then, and probably one of Crosby & Nash's most accomplished collaborations.
Everything you likely already cherish about these two is present here, heartfelt and immaculate harmonies, strong and distinct compositions from both artists, and superb musicianship -again provided by the 60's elite of California's session players.
When it comes to specific songs, it's more a matter of personal choices than objective hierarchies. Nash's songs are particularly moving and fiercer -as much as "fierce" is ever something to be said about Graham Nash- than anything in "Songs For Beginners." Crosby's pieces carry the wonderful dramatic undertow he could invoke -it seems, at will- ever since The Byrds' days and, more poignantly, in his first solo album and Deja Vu.
All in all, a thing of beauty. No disappointments, no proverbial "black holes."
An example of the significant music that you could still expect in the early seventies, before that decade turned grandiose and stupid.

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Probably the best combination besides CSN, April 20, 2005

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Garry Daniel (Knoxville, TN United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: David Crosby & Graham Nash (Audio CD)

Of all the varied combos these 4,(Crosby, Stills, Nash and/or Young)have put together over the years, I would have to say the best is CSN. Having said that, however, the best comination besides CSN has been Crosby and Nash. Their albums have been the most cohesive and satisfying. The Stills-Young experiment didn't quite work, and the CSNY combination was less a group effort than a batch of solo recordings under the CSNY banner. Of the four Crosby-Nash albums, this is, in my opinion, the best one. I bought this album on vinyl in 1972 and played it over again until I came to know the songs as you would come to know old friends. Page 43, Frozen Smile, Immigration Man..all wonderful songs. I'm certainly not taking anything away from Stills or Young. I think their talents speak for themselves. What I am saying is that when I hear Crosby and Nash together, I get the feeling of good friends singing together because they like to.
You don't get the impression of two guitar wizards trying to out duel each other. So, if you're thinking of exploring the Crosby-Nash combination, start with this, the first album, and go from there. You'll like it.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not to be missed, September 19, 2005

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Michael Topper (Pacific Palisades, California United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: David Crosby & Graham Nash (Audio CD)

Although the period from 1971-1977 saw CSNY struggle to come up with a proper studio followup to "Deja Vu" (sessions were begun and aborted in acrimony on three different occassions in 1973, 1974 and 1976, with the '76 effort very nearly seeing release),
the period did produce some fine solo efforts and collaborations by its various members. Perhaps the best of these (bar some of Young's epochal work at this time like "On The Beach" and "Zuma") was the debut Crosby/Nash album from '72, which is so high in quality that it is actually the equal of the first few CSN/Y efforts and in spite of the absence of Stills, can almost be considered the third CSN studio effort. Every track is extremely strong and their harmonies have never sounded better.

For his part, Nash contributes some of the strongest, least fluffy material of his entire career; both "Southbound Train" and "Immigration Man" were instant singer-songwriter classics of the period, with Nash's usual melodic instincts but also a bit more edge than he usually dished out. Crosby here completed the incredible winning streak that had begun as early as The Byrds' "Younger Than Yesterday" album and had continued through the "Notorious Byrd Brothers", "Crosby Stills And Nash", "Deja Vu" and "If I Could Only Remember My Name" efforts; this would be the last time his vocals and songwriting prowess would sound as breathtaking. "Whole Cloth", "Where Will I Be?" and "Page 43" all speak of a singular genius which would soon be wiped out by excessive drug use. The album was a huge commercial success at the time (#4 US) and yielded a hit in "Immigration Man", which makes it all the more puzzling why it is only available as an import here. But the bottom line is this is a now-overlooked effort not to be missed.