GRAHAM NASH – SONGS FOR BEGINNERS LP – VG US 1971 ORIG CSNY

Graham Nash – Songs For Beginners
(Atlantic Records   1971  SD7204  US Press)

Sleeve in Very Good+ condition
– some wear to edges and some ringwear
Plain White Inner Sleeve

Vinyl in Very Good condition
(there are some surface marks which do give pops and some clicks throughout but still a good playable album)

Graham William Nash, OBE (born 2 February 1942) is a British-American singer-songwriter and musician. Nash is known for his light tenor voice and for his songwriting contributions as a member of the English pop/rock group the Hollies and the folk-rock supergroup Crosby, Stills & Nash. Nash became an American citizen on 14 August 1978 and holds dual citizenship of the United Kingdom and United States.

Nash is a photography collector and a published photographer. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Crosby, Stills & Nash in 1997 and as a member of the Hollies in 2010.

Nash was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2010 Birthday Honours List for services to music and to charity.

Nash holds four honorary doctorates, including one from New York Institute of Technology, one in Music from the University of Salford in 2011. and his latest Doctorate in Fine Arts from Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Songs for Beginners is Graham Nash’s first solo album, released in May 1971, and one of four high-profile albums released by each partner of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young in the wake of their chart-topping Déjà Vu album of 1970. It peaked at #15 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart, and the single “Chicago” made it to #35 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Track listing and personnel

All songs by Graham Nash, except “Be Yourself” by Nash and Terry Reid.

Side one

1. “Military Madness” — 2:50
   • Graham Nash – guitar, vocals; Dave Mason – electric guitar; Joel Bernstein – piano; Calvin “Fuzzy” Samuels – bass; Johnny Barbata – drums; Rita Coolidge, P.P. Arnold – backing vocals
2. “Better Days” — 3:47
   • Nash – piano, organ, vocals; Joe Yankee – piano; Sermon Posthumas – bass clarinet; Samuels – bass; Dallas Taylor – drums; Coolidge – backing vocals; Larry Cox – whiskers
3. “Wounded Bird” — 2:09
   • Nash – guitar, vocals
4. “I Used to Be A King” — 4:45
   • Nash – guitar, vocals; David Crosby – electric guitar; Jerry Garcia – piano, pedal steel guitar; Phil Lesh – bass; Barbata – drums
5. “Be Yourself” — 3:03
   • Nash – guitar, vocals; Coolidge – piano, electric piano; Samuels – bass; Barbata – drums; Everyone Loose There – chorus

Side two

1. “Simple Man” — 2:05
   • Nash – piano, vocals; David Lindley – fiddle; Dorian Rudnytsky – cello; Coolidge – backing vocals
2. “Man in the Mirror” — 2:47
   • Nash – guitar, vocals; Yankee – piano; Garcia – pedal steel guitar; Chris Ethridge – bass; Barbata – drums
3. “There’s Only One” — 3:55
   • Nash – guitar, organ, vocals; Coolidge – piano, backing vocals; Bobby Keys – saxophone; Ethridge – bass; Barbata – drums; Venetta Fields, Sherlie Matthews, Clydie King, Dorothy Morrison – backing vocals; Cox – whiskers
4. “Sleep Song” — 2:57
   • Nash – guitar, paper, comb, vocals; Rudnytsky – cello
5. “Chicago” — 2:55
6. “We Can Change the World” — 1:00
   • Nash – guitar, organ, piano, tambourine, vocals; Ethridge – bass; Barbata – drums, tambourine; Coolidge, Fields, Matthews, King, Morrison – backing vocals; Cox – whiskers

Additional personnel

• Bill Halverson, Russ Gary — recording engineers
• Gary Burden — art direction