Graham Nash - 'Reflections' (3 CD Set) Box Set Release Febuary 2009

On February Rhino celebrates Graham Nash’s career with Reflections, a three-CD boxed set containing 40 years of music with 64 songs; half of which are unreleased mixes, alternate versions and unissued tracks.

This is a deluxe package that features a 150-page booklet with 75 unseen photos and track notes by Graham Nash.

"Arranged chronologically, Reflections spans Graham Nash’s recordings from 1967 to 2007, starting with a trio of singles he released with The Hollies in 1967: “On A Carousel”, “Carrie Anne” and “King Midas In Reverse”. Nash left the group a year later, joining with Crosby and Stills to record the trio’s self-titled album......Reflections gathers several songs from that album-and its follow-up, released a few months later with the addition of Neil Young - including “Pre-Road Downs”, “Marrakesh Express”, “Our House” and “Teach Your Children”. The set also includes tracks from the group’s other albums: “Just A Song Before I Go”, “Wasted On The Way” and “Heartland”.

The collection also brings together several classics from Nash’s four solo albums, ranging from the politically-charged (”Military Madness” and “Chicago” / “We Can Change The World”) to the emotionally raw (”Simple Man” and “Sleep Song”) and the socially conscious (”Barrel Of Pain” and “Chippin’ Away”.) Reflections spotlights 32 songs with different mixes and alternate versions that have never been released. Among the highlights is Nash’s solo acoustic demo of “Right Between The Eyes”. Recorded during the Déjà Vu sessions, a live version of the track popped up in 1971 on a CSN&Y live album. The compilation contains six unreleased tracks, including “Water From The Moon”, “Try To Find Me” and “In Your Name”, a song he recorded in 2007"


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Graham Nash & David Crosby (1972) Expanded and Reissued Version To Be Released 28 July 2008

This is probably one of the best side projects ever released by CSNY, an album that includes guest spots for Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, and Billy Kreutzman.

The central band,Russell Kunkel, Leland Skylar, Craig Doerge, and Danny Kortchmar were known as The Section, and would become the most in-demand session musicians on the West Coast in the 1970s, appearing on heaps of albums, including those of James Taylor and Carole King.

This special Rhino Reissue comes with four previously unreleased bonus tracks: 'To Know Yuh', 'Call Of The Wreckin' Ball', 'Year 1' and 'Johnny Hit And Run Pauline'

Track List

1 Southbound Train 2 Whole Cloth 3 Blacknotes 4 Stranger's Room 5 Where Will I Be 6 Page 43 7 Frozen Smiles 8 Games 9 Girl To Be On My Mind 10 Wall Song 11 Immigration Man 12 To Know Yuh 13 Call Of The Wreckin' Ball 14 Year 1 15 Johnny Hit And Run Pauline

Image: Atlantic

Rock Revival's Time Capsule (1970): Four Solo Albums in a Row From Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

On March 11, 1970 Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young released their second album, the brilliant Déjà Vu, which hit number #1 on the Billboard Chart and featured the singles "Teach Your Children," "Our House," and "Woodstock." This album brought the supergroup to international fame and prompted four incredible solo releases by the band.

Four solo albums were to follow in quick succession, some featuring the cream of rock, taking the band and it's blend of folk-rock into the stratosphere;

1. The first was Neil Young's After the Gold Rush (Sept 19, 1970), his third solo album, featuring "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" and "When You Dance I Can Really Love."

Review were bad:

"Neil Young devotees will probably spend the next few weeks trying desperately to convince themselves that After the Gold Rush is good music. But they'll be kidding themselves. For despite the fact that the album contains some potentially first rate material, none of the songs here rise above the uniformly dull surface."(Rolling Stone)

and good:

"One of his least stylized efforts, the record gains its strength from not only the rock solid songwriting, but the array of musical personalities that Neil displays. ... The variety and quality of the songs causes After The Gold Rush to play like a greatest hits album, which unbelievably it is not." (InkSpot)

.......but by the end of the century it was considered one of his best, appearing on pretty much every top albums of all time list, from Rolling Stone to Time and Blender's

2. Stephen Stills self-titled album (Nov 16, 1970), featuring the popular CSNY song "Love the One Your With". The album featured Ringo Starr on drums, Howlin Wolf, and BOTH Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix. This would be Jimi's last recording, he died before it's release.

3. Then came If Could Only Remember My Name (Feb 2, 1971), David Crosby's first solo album,. members of Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, and Santana all appeared on it (coined "The Great Planet Earth Rock and Roll Orchestra") and featured the only recording by his talented brother Ethan

4. Songs for Beginners, Graham Nash's first solo album (May 28, 1971), marking his fame for pop-folk, filled with the sincerity and political activism of the "Woodstock Nation" (the standout trakc is 'Chicago")

Images: Courtesy Atlantic/Reprise