Graham Nash and David Crosby are getting back together, but they’re still not talking to each other.
For years, Nash has been working on an album that compiles some of the songs by other artists that the two former friends sing background vocals on, and he now tells the San Diego Union-Tribune that it “really is a great album, and I hope it comes out soon.
“It starts with us singing on (Stephen Stills’s 1970 solo hit) ‘Love the One You’re With,’ then on Jackson Browne’s (1972 hit) ‘Doctor My Eyes’ and James Taylor’s (1975 hit) ‘Mexico.’ It finishes off with me and David singing ‘You’ve Got a Friend’ with Carole King (in 1993) at the Universal Amphitheatre (in Los Angeles).”
Asked about a title for the album, Nash says, “I don’t know. Harmony?” adding that he “made a great album cover for it. I think anyone who hears it will say: ‘Holy [crap], this really is a great record!’”
Here is David Crosby on his and Graham Nash’s criteria for doing background vocals on other artist’s songs.
“We only do it for friends, and we only do it if we like the song. Those are the two caveats. If we don’t like the song we just don’t do it. And we don’t do it for strangers and you can’t pay us to do it.”
Nash says he’s still not talking with Crosby, who he had a falling out following the 2013 publication of his [Nash] memoir, Wild Tales: A Rock & Roll Life, but he does miss his old bandmate. “I think he’s really a great musician, totally unique, and we made a lot of really good music together in our lives. But, as with brothers, sometimes you argue and that (can wreck) your relationship. That’s what happened to David and me. But look at the music we made together.”
Nash is on the road, but hurting after a fall in New York where he lives. “I spent five hours in the ER. Fortunately, I have not broken my hip, but I have internal bruising, which is incredibly painful… I’m still in a lot of pain.” He’s scheduled to perform in Berkeley, California tonight.
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