Though he stood between Stephen Stills and Neil Young “playing full fucking blast for 40 years,” Graham Nash can still hear, with the help of hearing aids. He has four tours planned this year.
“Wild Tales,” Graham Nash’s 2013 memoir, concludes with him swaddled in domestic comfort in Hawaii, long married, with three children and a newborn grandchild. The island sun seemed to be setting on a life in music that began with the Hollies and the British Invasion and continued through Laurel Canyon, Joni Mitchell, C.S.N.Y., and six solo records.
“I wanted to spend some time with Joan”—Joni, with whom he was in love. “But when I pulled into the parking lot I heard voices.” Crosby had recently been fired from the Byrds, and Stills’s band, Buffalo Springfield, had broken up; the two men were working on material as a duo. They sang Nash a new tune, “You Don’t Have to Cry,” and after listening to it twice he added his voice to theirs. “Forty-five seconds in, we had to stop.” The vocal blend stunned them. “It was ridiculous,” Nash said.
Nash was shaken by Crosby’s death, in January: “Like an earthquake, with aftershocks whenever I see his face on Instagram.” He added, “He was my best friend.” Nash’s unsparing account of Crosby’s addiction in “Wild Tales” ruptured their friendship; they hadn’t spoken in a decade. Shortly before Crosby died, “he left a voice mail saying, ‘I really need to talk,’ ” Nash said. “So I set a time, and I waited and waited. He never called. And then he was gone.
Nash likes to read depressing books: drug-resistant strains of bacteria, the next pandemic, social decay. “My wife calls my side of the bed the ‘bummer pile.’ ” His work has always been political, and one of his new songs references “when theNevertheless, Nash is upbeat. He’s hadtwice, but his high tenor is intact. And even though he stood between Stills and Neil Young “playing full fucking blast for forty years,” he can still hear, with the help of hearing aids.
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