Classic Albums- Songs For Beginners Graham Nash

For this week's classic album segment let's have an look at Graham Nash's debut solo album Songs For Beginners from 1971. By 1971 Graham Nash had been in 2 successful groups The Hollies the successful English group which he formed in 1962 and played on hits like Just One Look, Look Through Any Window, Here I Go Again, Bus Stop, On A carousel and many others until 1968 when he left due to creative differences and joined forces with Stephen Stills(Buffalo Springfield) and David Crosby(The Byrds) to form the group known as Crosby Stills and Nash which they had success straight with the debut self titled album in 1969 and were joined by neil Young(Buffalo Springfield) that became crosby Stills Nash and Young and had success with the album Deja Vu album in 1970 which At the wake of the success of the album, the 4 guys made their own solo albums. The recording of the album known as Songs For Beginners was recorded @ Studio C @ San Francisco and Walter Heider's Studio III in Los Angeles between 1970 and 1971 and it was released on May 28th 1971 which it went to number 15 in the USA that went gold. From the album it had the single Chicago that went to number 35 in the USA and there is other great songs on it like Military Madness, Better Days, I Used To Be King, Simple Man and others were expressed emotional sincerity and political activism. The album is excellent which still sounds great today as it was 41 years and Graham produced the album as well with Bill Halverson, Larry Cox annd Russ Gary doing the engineering and among the musicians playing on it were Crosby, John Barbata from the Turtles, Chris Ethridge from the Flying Burrito Brothers, Jerry Garcia and Phil Lesh from the Greatful Dead etc as well as the back vocalists including Rita Coolidge who had success in the 70's with We're ALL Alone, Higher and Higher, PP Arnold, Dorothy Morrison and even Vanetta Fields who lives in Australia. The album is still in the shops somewhere in the world.