David Crosby

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David Crosby's Bio: Possibly more than anyone on the planet, David Crosby has lived a life that is emblematic of his generation’s dizzying journey -- an agrarian ride through exhilarating highs and soul crushing lows on the paths of creative expression, political activism, personal growth and spiritual self-discovery. And yet amazingly, Crosby continues in perfect step with our times: healthy, sober and as productive as ever, he heads into the new millennium with a host of fresh creative projects and a successful new band, CPR, an aggregation that in itself is small miracle of creative synchronicity that grew out of the musician’s chance reunion with his 30 year-old biological son.

A founding member of two seminal rock bands, Crosby is a two-time inductee in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. When the singer/songwriter stepped onstage in front of some 500,000 music- and life-celebrating - fans at Woodstock in 1969 as part of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young -- Crosby both shared and contributed to what many see as the generation’s defining moment. In the three decades that followed, he enjoyed stunning artistic and financial success, collecting multiple gold and platinum records while continuing to be an artistic firebrand with over a dozen albums by Crosby, Stills and Nash (and sometimes Young), solo projects and duet albums with fellow band member Graham Nash. But long before Woodstock, Crosby had already made his mark on rock music and the culture that spawned it.

The son of Academy Award-winning cinematographer Floyd Crosby (“High Noon”, “Tabu”, among others), the performer grew up in Santa Barbara, and then migrated south to Los Angeles during the folk music revival of the early 60’s. During this period he also traveled extensively throughout the United States as a solo singer/songwriter, honing his craft alongside such luminaries as Fred Neil, Cass Elliot, Bob Dylan and many others, performing dates at college hootenannies and smoke-filled coffeehouses. After a brief stint (with his late brother, Chip) in Les Baxter’s Balladeers, Crosby returned to L.A. in 1963, eventually joining forces with fellow musicians Roger (formerly Jim) McGuinn, Gene Clark, Chris Hillman, and Michael Clarke as the Byrds -- a ground-breaking band that virtually gave birth to the Folk/Rock genre, possibly the most important wave in pop music during the mid-60’s.

The group’s distinctive sound blended the melodic strength and sweetness of folk music with the energy and drive of amplified rock, propelled by McGuinn’s 12-string electric guitar and Crosby’s ethereal harmonies. Beginning with a effulgent interpretation of Bob Dylan’s “Mr. Tambourine Man” - an international Top-ten it which combined the best elements of The Beatles and Dylan - continuing with classic material such as Clark’s “I’ll Feel A Whole Lot Better”, a re-working of Pete Seeger’s “Turn, Turn, Turn” and culminating with the progressive psychedelic classic “Eight Miles High,” (co-written by Crosby) the Byrds perfectly conveyed the mix of social irony, youthful optimism and free expression that characterized the still-dawning “youth counterculture.”

Following Gene Clark’s departure in mid-1966, Crosby was given more room to express himself as a songwriter, and took great advantage of the creative space, delivering such visionary compositions as “What’s Happening?!?!”, “Renaissance Fair”, “Tribal Gathering” and “Everybody’s Been Burned”. These songs brought forth a wellspring of musical ideas and moods that began to define Crosby’s sense of progressive style, a style that continues to this very day. Utilizing open guitar tunings, extraordinary chord progressions and occasional Jazz-inspired melodic flavors – as well as intelligent, penetrating lyrics which mirrored the mood of the day, it was often the case that many of Crosby’s songs that stood out on such Byrds albums as Younger Than Yesterday and Notorious Byrd Brothers. … Read more