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David Crosby (August 14, 1941 – January 18, 2023)

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David Crosby *August 14, 1941

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David Crosby

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But Crosby was also in the middle of something else. Stephen Stills had been down in the Grove, stinging from the conflicts within his own band, Buffalo Springfield, which he'd leave behind within a year. Late nights on the boat, they'd write together. Crosby also knew that Graham Nash, the hippie-est of the post-Beatles bunch he'd met when the Byrds toured England, was leaning away from his pop group the Hollies and toward something new. Later, when Graham met Joni at Crosby's suggestion while both were on tour in Ottawa in 1968, Mitchell became another reason Nash needed to relocate to L.A. And Neil Young, Joni's old friend from the Canadian hootenanny scene, was hanging around, too. Though he and Stills had clashed in Springfield, Joni's familiar face might eventually have helped bring him back into the circle and expand the CS&N trio to a foursome--acronymically, CSNY, one of the most successful supergroups in rock.

Traveling on the Path of Joni Mitchell, Ann Powers (2024)

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Mitchell and Crosby were united by each other's charisma and talent, by a love of jazz and fantasy novels, and also by some unhappy life experiences. Mitchell had escaped the mental grip of ex-husband Chuck and the overwhelming if fleeting influence of folk festival holy man Leonard Cohen; in Florida she'd worked through some lonely times and toward a new beginning. Crosby had endured a much more visible artistic breakup, with the Byrds; he was tossed out of L.A.'s own version of the Beatles for being--depends on who you ask--either erratic and arrogant or musically overambitious. So they were both brokenhearted in complicated ways. Also, though few knew it, Crosby had fathered a son in 1962, three years before Joni gave birth to her daughter. Both children were in closed adoptions--for all intents and purposes, lost.

Traveling on the Path of Joni Mitchell, Ann Powers (2024)