Friday on my Mind 225: Eight Miles High; and 226: Guinnevere – RIP David Crosby
Posted in 1960s, Events dear boy. Events, Friday On My Mind, Music at 12:00 on 27 January 2023
Last week, David Crosby of The Byrds, Crosby Stills and Nash, and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young plus various solo offerings died.
Another to add to the long list of 60s and 70s rock greats who have left us recently.
Crosby first came to attention in the UK as a member of US group The Byrds, pioneers of folk rock and a distinctive jangly guitar style
This video features a US TV appearance with a song which is a contender for the first psychedelic recording.
The Byrds: Eight Miles High
In 1968 he teamed up with Stephen Stills and Graham Nash to form one of the best close harmony groups of their time. One of my favourites of theirs is Suite: Judy Blue Eyes which I posted here.
That group became even more potent with the addition of Neil Young a year later. I featured CSNY’s great protest song Ohio in 2010.
This though is from that first eponymous CSN album; a slower, acoustic piece which Crosby wrote.
Crosby, Stills and Nash: Guinnevere
David Van Cortlandt Crosby: 14/8/1941 – 18/1/2023. So it goes.
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