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CROSBY, STILLS AND NASH
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Crosby, Stills & Nash _ ON TOUR 2004_
Tour dates provided to the site by Gerry Tolman & Gabi CSN dates run through September 2004
the NEW CROSBY / NASH RECORD
Eye To Eye - The Photography Of Graham Nash
Photographer Roger Barone had the chance to stop by Graham Nash's gallery opening in NYC in July. He sent me these great photos for us all to enjoy. ROGER BARONE PHOTOGRAPHY©2004 THANK YOU!
ALLAN THOMAS While vacationing on Kauai, yes, the home of our beloved Mr. Nash, I met a very talented singer/songwriter that I thought you all, as CSN fans might well appreciate. As a matter of fact, he is a long time island friend of Graham’s. He has a couple cd’s of his own, and a track called “The Navigator”, on which Graham sings harmony. He also plays gigs at local clubs and restaurants. I was lucky enough to go to one of his performances over dinner with my family. Allan is the real deal and is a very nice human being. It was almost as if I had a good friend who we were just stopping by to say hello to. Ahh, the magic of the Aloha Spirit… May you all experience it someday.
### THANKS CATHRYN
ROLLING STONE 3 STARS * * * The first studio album by David Crosby and Graham Nash since 1976 is rightly dedicated to the late Cass Elliot of the Mamas and the Papas, the hostess queen of hip late-Sixties L.A. who introduced the pair in 1967. She would have approved of the immaculate, high-altitude harmonies glazing this two-CD set and the enduring mutual admiration within. In the real-life rock opera that is Crosby, Stills, Nash and sometimes Young, Crosby and Nash's friendship and vocal empathy have been remarkable constants. There has been a deepening in their eternal-schoolboy tenors but no erosion in their melodic glide and choral precision. In "Lay Me Down" and Nash's "Half Your Angels" (originally a song for the children killed in the Oklahoma City bombing, now loaded with even more unspeakable sorrow), the singers wear the weight of years and derailed expectations with warm poise and no apologies for their vintage folk-pop earnestness. When those voices rise and fall together at the end of the album, in "My Country 'Tis of Thee," it is with elegant optimism and worry - and the perfect harmony you only get from souls joined for life. In the June 24th issue of #951 ROLLING STONE The Moments CSN made the grade w/ July 1968 as being a moment that changed Rock History.... Page 120 _CSN Sing in Joni Mitchell's Living Room_ "Laurel Canyon, a quiet refuge in the Hollywood Hills, is a world away from the hustle and bustle of the music business. That's why it became a hotbed of creative energy in the summer of 1968. Joni Mitchell had a house. Mama Cass Elliot had a swimming pool where musicians would gather for "liquid jams." Rock stars hanging out, strumming guitars, skinny-dipping, smoking weed. Peter Tork of the Monkees was throwing wild parties. Eric Clapton carrying an advance copy the Band's Music From Big Pink, playing it for everyone. In the summer of 1968, Mitchell was chilling at her small house, built into the side of a hill on Lookout Mountain Road. This was the country home that Mitchell had painted for the cover of her album Ladies of the Canyon, the place that inspired Our House, by her then-boyfriend, Graham Nash. It was full of stained-glass windows, oak floors, antiques, a piano, and Mitchell's nine-year-old black cat, Hunter. "That was hippie heaven, with a little rustic fireplace and a good feeling," Mitchell said. "There would be nights when everybody sat up and played acoustic music and swapped songs. Everyone was particularly fertile." The Canyon's most famous sons were starting to harmonize: David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Nash. "Me, and David's contention and memory," says Nash now, "which obviously was affected by various substances which shall remain nameless - marijuana - was that the first time we sang was in Joni and my living room." As by told Rolling Stone in 1970, "The feeling of that, man, was like having someone give you head all of a sudden. It was like waking up on acid heavy flash. Perhaps Crosby summed up the spirit of the times best: "One morning I got up, jumped into my Volkswagon bus, drove down to Peter Tork's house, got out, walked through the living room, and went and lay pool before I realized any clothes on."
ROLLING STONE ISSUE #955 August 19th, 2004 Featured article 2004 HOT LIST Page 74 Hot Songwriter: Ray LaMontagne That day, LaMontagne blew off his job at a Lewiston, Maine, shoe factory to hunt down the 1991 album Stills Alone. "I was in a very dark place and very self-destructive and very close to killing myself in various ways," says the thirty-one-year-old folk singer. After he found the Stills record, he started digging into Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell and Ray Charles. "It was like I found a religion," he says. "I realized that you could take all this stuff that's making you miserable and turn it into something beautiful." In September, RCA will release LaMontagne's first album, Trouble. His sandpaper croon sounds like church, Van Morrison and dusty porches. "When I started singing," he says, "it was weird, because I was an introverted person. At first I just whispered." LaMontagne recently left the rural-Maine log cabin he built and had lived in with his wife and two kids for the past five years. "Life is changing," he says with disarming understatement. # # # Interesting to note: ETHAN JOHNS produced his forth-coming record. - lk Due out in the US 09/14
MOJO MAGAZINE 4 stars * * * * *
Book signing @ Barnes & Noble, City Place, West Palm Beach, FLA 8/20/04 Thanks Jason - who is a great supporter of suitelorraine.com Check out his site
I cracked open the 08/28/04 issue of BILLBOARD this morning and lookey what I found!!! SCORE!! They reviewed the record and its a good one!!! ..... * * * And to top it off As of this week Crosby and Nash have cracked the BILLBOARD 200 (see pages 68-69) @ # 142 !!!!! * * * * (As found on page 45) CROSBY NASH |
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