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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Antispam question: What's Mr. Lee's Firstname? Answer: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by lemonade kid[/i] [br]A wonderful new album, Nash's first in 14 years, and a complete break, "forever", from David Crosby (what did Croz do now?!). We'll start with the new music, look at the "breakup" later... so...as I've told a friend, my first listen to [i]This Path Tonight[/i] was like a flash-back to 1968, like I was hearing a brand new CSN long player for the first time, but tracking only the Nash cuts. Brilliant! [size=4][i]Really fine![/i][/size=4] [img]http://s31.postimg.org/qxvlrtzwb/graham_nash_this_path_tonight.png[/img] [b]This Path Tonight...full album[/b] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYbuxU-y2Zk [size=6][b]This Path Tonight[/b] April, 2016[/size=6].. Consequence Of Sound.net BY CORBIN REIFFON APRIL 11, 2016, 12:01AM Life is an unpredictable journey whose path can lead you into places that you never thought youÕd end up. WhatÕs the old saying: If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans? ItÕs almost certain that a few years ago, the idea that vaunted Ô60s singer-songwriter Graham Nash would have ended his decades-long marriage and scuttled his extremely lucrative partnership with David Crosby and Stephen Stills to embark on a renewed solo career with a fresh love interest would have probably seemed preposterous. And yet here we are. For his first solo album in 14 years, Nash mines a trio of themes that have sustained a majority of writers throughout history: love, loss, and finality. At 74 years old, the former Hollies singer offers a unique perspective on all three, a view that rarely gets explored by din of the fact that there just arenÕt many people his age writing up to the same level of viable music. Young love is a topic that has been covered a million times throughout the years, but whatÕs it like to discover love anew in the twilight of your life? How, as a person, do you change through the passage of time? How do your desires and goals shift, alter, and morph? The really interesting thing is that Nash doesnÕt seem to have any answers, but instead relishes the questions themselves. On the title track and album opener he acknowledges that he doesnÕt know where heÕs going in this life anymore, but feels compelled to keep moving forward regardless. He parries each of the larger questions above with a series of questions of his own. ÒI try to answer all thatÕs asked/ I try my best to be myself, but wonder whoÕs behind this mask.Ó Alternately on ÒMyself at LastÓ, a treacly ballad which heÕs publicly dedicated to his new girlfriend, Nash seems plainly overjoyed to have shifted off the road heÕd been traveling down into new, exhilarating directions. ÒItÕs so hard to fight the past,Ó he admits, Òbut the day that breaks before me may never be surpassed.Ó Having spent the last decade as the nominal caretaker for the legacy of Crosby, Stills, Nash and sometimes Young, Nash has been mired in the subject his own past, and it sounds like heÕs delighted to finally put all of that behind him and instead look forward. ÒThe question haunting me/ Is my future just my past?Ó The answer on this song at least appears to be a resounding no. One thing time hasnÕt seemed to have affected is NashÕs singing voice. ItÕs absolutely incredible how fresh and similar it sounds to that high, crisp register present on earlier hit songs like ÒMarrakesh ExpressÓ, ÒCarry OnÓ, or ÒOur HouseÓ. While other artists of his generation are forced to drop keys or modify their entire approach to singing and writing, Nash remains completely free to be the same artist that heÕs always been. ItÕs truly a gift, and one that isnÕt squandered. This Path Tonight is almost completely made up of acoustic arrangements. There are certainly keyboard accents and electric guitar lines thrown in here and there to keep things interesting, but the compositions are startlingly simple. This is a no-frills type of record that prizes style over substance. If there is any kind of solo, like the acoustic piece near the end of ÒCracks in the CityÓ or the harmonica tangent on ÒTargetÓ, itÕs kept short, and done tastefully. The bombastic chorus of ÒFire Down BelowÓ is the lone Ñ and most welcome Ñ exception to this rule. ItÕs been quite a while since Nash has released a collection of new material Ñ even the last Crosby, Stills & Nash record came out in 1999. The past decade has found the singer seemingly going through the motions, hitting the road, playing the hits, writing a memoir, digging out old tapes, and generally moving laterally. The act of breaking that particular cycle almost certainly has to be a thrilling proposition no matter how you cut it, and if you were to use one word to describe the figure you hear on This Path Tonight, that word would be Òunburdened.Ó [img]http://s31.postimg.org/6hggf8h6j/graham_joni_joel_bernstein_630_80.jpg[/img] ________________________________________________ The actual writing of a song usually comes in the form of a realisation. I can't contrive a song. Ð GENE CLARK [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature. Check here to subscribe to this topic.