Biography

Separate from both of their solo careers and their work in supergroup Crosby, Stills, Nash &Young, Crosby & Nash formed in the early 1970s to highlight the collaborative chemistry and harmoniousness shared by singer/songwriters David Crosby and Graham Nash. Throughout the '70s, the duo released three studio albums, several live collections, and provided backing vocals for some of the decade's most important albums, including appearances on landmark works by Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, Carole King, Jackson Browne, and many others. The duo recorded one final eponymous album in 2004, but an increasingly strained relationship between the two eventually made working together more difficult, and the 2004 album would be their last before Crosby's death in 2023. Following the release of their 1970 sophomore album Déja Vu, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young disbanded and all four members began work on solo albums. In this time, Crosby & Nash began working on what would become a collaborative duo, first playing low stakes acoustic shows and later issuing 1972's Graham Nash/David Crosby. The album did well, peaking at the number four position on the U.S. Billboard charts and producing a hit single with the Nash-penned "Immigration Man." These years found all the different components of CSN&Y in unsteady orbits around each other, with several false starts on new music or short-lived reunions from the full group, and steady streams of solo output and other configurations of its members. Crosby & Nash switched from Atlantic to ABC Records for the release of their 1975 album Wind on the Water. An extensive tour in support of the record found them using videos sanctioned by Greenpeace to highlight the plight of the whale. The following year a third album, Whistling Down the Wire, was released and the duo recorded a live album featuring an extended jazz version of Crosby’s "Déja Vu." The 1998 release of the archival early-'70s live recording Another Stoney Evening rekindled Crosby & Nash's partnership and the duo reunited in 2004 to record their first collection of new material in over 25 years. The self-titled double album was released August of 2004, and a streamlined single-disc version materialized two years later. Various iterations of CSN&Y toured and recorded throughout the '90s, 2000s, and into the 2010s, but the friendships had soured over the years and the band was put to rest for the final time around 2015. Nash and Crosby had continued to have an especially contentious relationship that did not heal to the point where they ever produced another Crosby & Nash record before Crosby died in January of 2023. ~ TiVo Staff, Rovi