Graham Nash, Live in Studio 4A
Veteran Musician Talks About New Album and 40-Year Career

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Watch Nash perform 'Lost Another One' in NPR's Studio 4A.

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Hear Nash discuss the origins of Crosby, Stills and Nash's harmonies.

Graham Nash Photo: Robert Malesky, NPR
Performed in NPR's Studio 4A: 'Dirty Little Secret' 'Lost Another One'
Nash at the Steinway in Studio 4A. Photo: Robert Malesky, NPR.

Oct. 27, 2002 -- It all began in 1967. Cass Elliot of the Mamas and the Papas took a young English singer, Graham Nash, to meet a friend of hers in a funky little apartment in Laurel Canyon, near Los Angeles.

Elliot's friend, David Crosby, had just been booted from his band, The Byrds. Nash himself was unhappy with the direction of his own band, The Hollies. Cass thought the pair would sing well together.

But the singing would come later. Upon entering the apartment, Nash remembers, he encountered David Crosby "rolling the most unbelievably formed joints I've ever seen."

As Nash tells Liane Hansen for Weekend Edition Sunday, there is some debate about precisely when and where they finally got together -- along with Stephen Stills -- to sing for the first time. But he knows for sure that "the heavens opened, and my life changed again."

And, some would say, so did a lot of other peoples' lives. Crosby Stills and Nash -- sometimes accompanied by the mercurial Neil Young -- have been making music together off and on ever since. Some of that music has become part of the soundtrack to their fans' lives: "Teach Your Children," "Woodstock," "Ohio."

Each of the men has done solo work. Nash released Songs for Beginners in 1971. His latest effort is the aptly titled Songs for Survivors.

Nash appears in NPR's Studio 4A, performing two songs from the album and chatting about the new album, his relationship with David Crosby, and the art of writing "simple songs."

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A Fresh Air interview with Neil Young from August.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Jimmy McDonough, author of the Neil Young biography Shakey.


Other Resources

Graham Nash's Web site, including samples of his photography.

David Crosby's band, CPR.

The official Stephen Stills Web site.

Crosby Stills and Nash.

HyperRust, a Neil Young fan site.

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