Crosby, Stills and Nash 1970

Crosby, Stills & Nash 1970, hand-drawn here (L to R) with Graham Nash age 28, David Crosby age 29 (with fingers-crossed) and Stephen Stills age 25 on June 5, 1970 rehearsing harmonies, backstage at the Fillmore East, NYC.

CSN played the Fillmore East and recorded their live album “Four Way Street” along with Neil Young at this famous event.

Graham Nash is holding 1963 “Black” Epiphone FT-79 Texan with it’s custom pickguard. Stills with his Martin D45.

Crosby, Stills & Nash is a vocal folk rock supergroup made up of American singer-songwriters David Crosby and Stephen Stills and English singer-songwriter Graham Nash.

Prior to the formation of CSN, each member of the band had belonged to another prominent group. David Crosby played guitar, sang and wrote songs with the Byrds; Stephen Stills had been a guitarist, keyboardist, vocalist and songwriter in the band Buffalo Springfield (which also featured Neil Young); and Graham Nash had been a guitarist, singer and songwriter with The Hollies.

Graham Nash had been introduced to Crosby when the Byrds had toured the United Kingdom in 1966, and when the Hollies ventured to California in 1968, Nash resumed his acquaintance with him.
At a party in July 1968 at Joni Mitchell’s house (some say it was Mama Cass), Nash asked Stills and Crosby to repeat their performance of a new song by Stills, “You Don’t Have To Cry”, with Nash improvising a third part harmony.
The vocals gelled, and the three realized that they had a very good vocal chemistry. So the new supergroup was formed.

The trio’s first album, Crosby, Stills & Nash, was released in May 1969. The eponymously titled album was a major hit in the United States, peaking at #6 on the Billboard album chart during a 107-week stay that spawned two Top 40 hits (“Suite: Judy Blue Eyes” [#21] and “Marrakesh Express” [#28]) and significant airplay on FM radio.
Their second live performance was at Woodstock in August 1969 and were joined by their occasional forth member, Neil Young, who first appeared on their second album, Déjà Vu.

The band has released numerous studio albums, with hit songs such as: “Suite; Judy Blue Eyes”, “Marrakesh Express”, “Helplessly Hoping”, “You Don’t Have To Cry”, “Teach Your Children”, “Carry On/Questions”, “Déjà Vu”, “Almost Cut My Hair”, “Woodstock”, “Wooden Ships”, “Ohio”, “Find The Cost Of Freedom”, “Wasted On The Way”, “Southern Cross”, and “Dark Star”; each band member also has numerous hits from each of their solo careers as well.

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