The album American Beauty by the Grateful Dead actually has backing vocals by David Crosby and Graham Nash on certain tracks as they offered to teach the band to sing better harmonies in exchange for Jerry Garcia playing pedal steel on their song Teach Your Children.

That was more important than me having a hit with my song.I’m going to assume you’re well versed in CSNY’s catalogue and that you’ve listened to the album Deja Vu, if not, start there. For me, bringing out the point of 'Ohio' and the slaughter of our students with their God given constitutional right to address grievances of their government. They realized we are a different kind of band. But, y'know what? They let us do what we want. (Nash): Do you think out managers were happy? Do you think our record company was happy? I don't think so. (David Crosby): We had 'Teach Your Children' halfway up the charts goin' for Number One and Nash pulled it. But, I heard the song originally when he came to sing it to me to try to get me back ( laughs).”Ī while back, Graham Nash and David Crosby shed light on how the group made the decision to put social politics above their chart success: (Graham Nash): “We put out 'Ohio' in 12 days with a 45 (picture sleeve) cover of the Constitution with four bullet holes in it and we killed our own single.

I was with a bunch of therapists that didn't believe in dating one person, so you hear - 'Tuesdays and Saturdays.' That's, that's from real life. He hated New York and therapy and I was in both - and you can hear it in the song. I mean, he was on the West Coast - I was on the East Coast.

it has some reality in it that's unmistakable. And, y'know, in that sense, it's pretty ( laughs). Coming in second was Neil Young's “Ohio” - the group's immediate and very public answer to the carnage at Kent State on May 4th, 1970, with the Top Three being rounded out by the “Woodstock Nation” call to arms - the Stephen Stills– David Crosby– Paul Kantner co-write, “Wooden Ships.”Īpart from all of her amazing accomplishments, Judy Collins will never not be known and beloved as the muse for Stephen Stills' masterpiece, “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes.” Collins revealed to us that the song remains truly a snapshot of her and Stills' relationship at that exact moment: “There are a lot of lines with what was going on in my life and his. The editors of Classic Rock magazine have listed “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes” as the best song in the extended Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young catalogue.

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