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76-537: The band was formed as a 10-piece group by Michael League in Denton, Texas , after his second year at the University of North Texas , in 2004, "Because I was so bad," he claimed, "I didn't place into any of the school ensembles. So Snarky Puppy was my way of getting to play." The group has grown into an international superband comprising "...a wide-ranging assemblage of musicians known affectionately as 'The Fam'." In

152-543: A 2008 episode of The Colbert Report , with Colbert filling in for Young in the fourth harmony part on " Teach Your Children ". Following a November 2015 interview in which he stated he still hoped the band had a future, Nash announced on March 6, 2016, that Crosby, Stills & Nash would never perform again because of his poor relationship with Crosby. In 1971, Crosby released his first solo album, If I Could Only Remember My Name , featuring contributions by Nash, Young, Joni Mitchell , and members of Jefferson Airplane,

228-455: A 50-plus-year cannabis advocate and connoisseur, credited cannabis with contributing to his creative process of songwriting stating, "All those hit songs, every one of them, I wrote them all on cannabis." Crosby also credited cannabis and cannabidiol (CBD) with alleviating his chronic shoulder pain, allowing him to continue touring and making new music well into his seventies. Crosby and Sponder intended to work with licensed cultivators throughout

304-652: A CSNY album. This attempt ended bitterly as Stills and Young deleted Crosby and Nash's vocals from their album Long May You Run . CSNY did not perform together again as a foursome until Live Aid in Philadelphia in 1985, and then performed only sporadically in the 1980s and 1990s (mainly at the annual Bridge School Benefit organized by Young's wife Pegi). Without Young, however, Crosby, Stills & Nash performed much more consistently after its reformation in 1977. The trio toured in support of their 1977 and 1982 albums CSN and Daylight Again and then, starting in

380-561: A cover of Bob Dylan 's " Mr. Tambourine Man ". Crosby appeared on the Byrds' first five albums and the original lineup's 1973 reunion album . In 1968, he formed Crosby, Stills & Nash (CSN) with Stephen Stills and Graham Nash . After the release of their debut album , CSN won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist of 1969. The group later occasionally included Neil Young . The core trio of CSN remained active from 1976 until 2016, and

456-815: A duet of the title track with Lucinda Williams . In 2006, Crosby and Nash worked with David Gilmour as backing vocalists on the latter's third solo album, On an Island . The album was released in March 2006 and reached No. 1 on the UK charts. They also performed live with Gilmour in his concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London in May 2006 and toured together in the United States, as can be seen on Gilmour's 2007 DVD Remember That Night . They also sang backup on

532-602: A live performance of the Brenda Russell and David Foster song "Something" on the Family Dinner – Volume 1 album. In 2016, Sylva , the collaborative album between Snarky Puppy and the Metropole Orkest and conducted by Jules Buckley , won a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album , as did the band's follow-up album, Culcha Vulcha in 2017.; Snarky Puppy's 2020 album Live at

608-528: A then-unreleased Crosby song, "Little Blind Fish". A different version of the song would appear on the second CPR album more than two decades later. The 1974 tour was also affected by bickering, though they managed to finish it without interruption. A greatest hits compilation entitled So Far was released in 1974 to capitalize on the foursome's reunion tour. In 1976, as separate duos, Crosby & Nash and Stills & Young were both working on respective albums and contemplated retooling their work to produce

684-400: A thing where we started touring so much that guys couldn't do all the dates, or didn't want to, or whatever." When people came in, the differences in their playing would influence all those on the date. "That would change the way that they played the music. And then even when that new person left, that memory of that new relationship with the music would remain. So really we just kept building on

760-403: A tight, familial unit. Everyone feels very, very close and very essential, also." Members listed on the notes of album Empire Central (2022): Studio albums († = with audience in the studio) Live recordings Live Events with guest artists Backing band Michael League Michael League (born April 24, 1984) is an American composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. He

836-561: A variety of genres including Laura Mvula , Lalah Hathaway , Joe Walsh , Chris Thile , Michael McDonald , Terence Blanchard , Esperanza Spalding , Joshua Redman , Wayne Krantz , Chris Potter , Salif Keita , Eliades Ochoa , Fatoumata Diawara , Bassekou Kouyate , Susana Baca , and Kardeş Türküler . He served as musical director for David Crosby in his Lighthouse touring band, alongside Becca Stevens and Michelle Willis . In 2014, League won his first Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance with Snarky Puppy and Lalah Hathaway for

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912-516: A version of the song, featuring McGuinn's twelve-string guitar as well as McGuinn, Crosby, and Clark's vocal harmonies. The song was a massive hit, reaching No. 1 in the charts in the United States and the United Kingdom during 1965. While McGuinn originated the Byrds' trademark 12-string guitar sound, Crosby was responsible for the soaring harmonies and often unusual phrasing of their songs. While he did not sing lead vocals on either of

988-576: Is now a fully independent label. It has released albums by David Crosby , Snarky Puppy, Becca Stevens , Bokanté, Banda Magda, Alina Engibaryan, Charlie Hunter , Breastfist, Sirintip, Mark Lettieri, House of Waters, PRD Mais, Roosevelt Collier, Forq , Lucy Woodward , The Funky Knuckles, Michelle Willis , Cory Henry , Justin Stanton, Bill Laurance , and Maz. In 2017, the GroundUP Music Festival, also known as GUMFest, debuted within

1064-514: Is the bandleader of instrumental band Snarky Puppy and the international music ensemble Bokanté . He also founded the band Forq with keyboardist Henry Hey , and is also an owner and founder of the record label GroundUP Music. League has won five Grammy Awards . League was born in California on April 24, 1984. He had an attraction to music from an early age and began playing guitar at 13 years old. He started playing bass at age 17, when he

1140-568: The Beatles 's song, Michelle . With the help of producer Jim Dickson, Crosby recorded his first solo session in 1963, with a cover of a song by Ray Charles . Miriam Makeba was on tour and in Chicago at the time with her band, which included Jim McGuinn, a multi-instrumentalist who later dropped his first name and began to go by his middle name, Roger McGuinn . Callier introduced Crosby to McGuinn and Gene Clark , who were then performing by

1216-599: The Billboard magazine Heatseekers Chart, the Jazz Album chart, and the Contemporary Jazz Album chart. The album won the 2016 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album . The album Culcha Vulcha (2016) won the 2017 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album. Friday 26 April 2019, the band released the first bonus track from Immigrance. Immigrance is the latest evolution of

1292-762: The Grateful Dead , and Santana . Panned on release by Rolling Stone magazine, it has been reappraised amid the emergence of the freak folk and New Weird America movements and remains in print. In a 2010 list of the Best Albums published by the Vatican City newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano , If I Could Only Remember My Name came in second to the Beatles' Revolver . As a duo, Crosby & Nash (C&N) released four studio albums and two live albums, including Another Stoney Evening , which features

1368-612: The Lighthouse band. The band also toured from November to December of that same year. Crosby was the subject of the documentary film David Crosby: Remember My Name which premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival . Crosby mentioned that Cameron Crowe , who asked the interview questions for the film, knew "where the bones are buried." Following the premiere of the film, Crosby toured as David Crosby & Friends from May to September 2019. In July 2021, Crosby released what would become his final studio album, For Free . This

1444-596: The Potter's House . He was also a regular member of Erykah Badu 's backing band, the Gritz. League moved to Brooklyn, New York , in 2009. League formed Snarky Puppy in his freshman year of college at the University of North Texas, originally consisting of him and nine of his peers. He composed most of their original music, as well as produced all albums released by the band. He has performed or recorded with artists from

1520-499: The supergroup Crosby, Stills & Nash , who helped popularize the California sound of the 1970s. In addition to his music, Crosby was known for his outspoken personality, politics, and personal troubles; he was sometimes depicted as emblematic of the counterculture of the 1960s . After a short time performing in the folk music scene, Crosby co-founded the Byrds in 1964. They scored their first number-one hit in 1965 with

1596-697: The 1996 remastered edition. The album also contained a rerecording of "Why" and "Everybody's Been Burned", a jazzy torch song from Crosby's pre-Byrds repertoire that was initially demoed in 1963. Friction between Crosby and the other Byrds came to a head in early to mid-1967. Tensions were high after the Monterey International Pop Festival in June when Crosby's onstage political diatribes and support of various John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories between songs outraged McGuinn. He further annoyed his bandmates when, at

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1672-429: The 1997 re-release of The Notorious Byrd Brothers . In 1973, Crosby reunited with the original Byrds for the album Byrds , with Crosby acting as the album's producer. The album charted well (at No. 20, their best album showing since their second album) but was generally not perceived to be a critical success. It marked the final artistic collaboration of the original band. Around the time of Crosby's departure from

1748-542: The 2021 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album. A second "live, in-concert" album, Live at GroundUP Music Festival , was released in the spring of 2022. The album consists of a single performance from each of the GroundUP Music Festival's first four seasons, none of which had been included in the Live at the Royal Albert Hall album. In March 2022, the band recorded their album Empire Central at

1824-781: The Byrds in 1968, he met Stephen Stills at Laurel Canyon in California through Cass Elliot (of the Mamas & the Papas ), and the two started meeting informally and jamming together. They were soon joined by Graham Nash , who would leave his commercially successful group the Hollies to play with Crosby and Stills. Their appearance at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in August 1969 constituted only their second live performance. Their first album, Crosby, Stills & Nash (1969),

1900-593: The Deep Ellum Art Company in Dallas , Texas. The album won the 2023 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album. With the release of the album GroundUP in 2012, Snarky Puppy started its own imprint, GroundUP Music, on Ropeadope Records. It was inspired by the idea of helping lesser-known artists capitalize on Snarky Puppy's growing fanbase. In 2016, GroundUP Music left Ropeadope and partnered with Universal Music for three years of releases and

1976-691: The Dorks", and making a live recording at The Matrix on December 15, 1970. CSNY reunited in the summer of 1973 for unsuccessful recording sessions in Maui and Los Angeles. Despite lingering acrimony, they reconvened at a Stills concert at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco in October. This served as a prelude to their highly successful stadium tour in the summer of 1974. Following

2052-540: The Flecktones , The Wood Brothers , Robert Glasper , Knower , Concha Buika , C4 Trio, Pedrito Martinez , Jojo Mayer + Nerve, Mark Guiliana 's Beat Music, John Medeski 's Mad Skillet, Charlie Hunter Trio , Laura Mvula , Eliades Ochoa, Esperanza Spalding , Lionel Loueke , Joshua Redman , Terence Blanchard , Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah , Maro , and Brian Blade and the Fellowship Band as well as

2128-593: The Hollywood Church of Religious Science in Los Angeles. His bandmate Stephen Stills gave away the bride. Crosby's brother Ethan, who taught him to play guitar and started his musical career with him, died by suicide in late 1997 or early 1998; the date is unknown because Ethan left a note not to search for his body but to let him return to the earth. His body was found months later in May 1998. In January 2000, Melissa Etheridge announced that Crosby

2204-854: The Metropole Orkest, was released on September 28, 2018, on Real World Records . In 2019, What Heat was nominated in the Grammy Award for Best World Music Album category. One number on David Crosby 's League-produced Lighthouse album featured Crosby, League, Becca Stevens, and Michelle Willis (with Bill Laurence on piano). The quartet became the Lighthouse Band on Crosby's 2018 Here If You Listen album. The band then toured for six weeks in November and December 2018. League relocated to Catalonia, Spain in 2020. In 2021, League released his debut solo album So Many Me on GroundUP Music. League himself performed every instrument on

2280-408: The Royal Albert Hall, recorded before a sold-out crowd at the historic London venue, won the 2021 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album . League formed the world/blues ensemble Bokanté in 2016, and has produced two albums for the band: Strange Circles , and What Heat . Strange Circles was released on GroundUP Music and What Heat , also a collaboration with Jules Buckley and

2356-539: The San Francisco milieu that had abetted so well on his solo album, Crosby sang backup vocals on several Paul Kantner and Grace Slick albums from 1971 through 1974 and the Hot Tuna album Burgers in 1972. He also participated in composer Ned Lagin 's proto- ambient project Seastones along with members of the Grateful Dead and of Jefferson Starship. Crosby worked with Phil Collins occasionally from

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2432-563: The U.S. and beyond and to also extend the brand to include CBD and hemp products. In 2018, Crosby was invited to join the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) advisory board. Having had a transformative sailing experience when he was eleven, in 1967 Crosby purchased a 59-foot (18 m) John Alden –designed schooner named Mayan with his Byrds settlement. On Twitter in 2019, Crosby said that

2508-898: The University Elementary School in Los Angeles, the Crane Country Day School in Montecito , and Laguna Blanca School in Santa Barbara for the rest of his elementary school and junior high years. At Crane, he starred in H.M.S. Pinafore and other musicals but he flunked out. Crosby finished high school via correspondence courses from the Cate School in Carpinteria . He briefly attended Carpinteria Union High School in 1958. Ethan ('Chip') had been at CUHS before David. At CUHS David

2584-571: The album's title track. After the release of the double live album 4 Way Street , the group went on a four-year hiatus to focus on their respective solo careers. In December 1969, Crosby appeared with CSNY at the Altamont Free Concert , increasing his visibility after also having performed at the Monterey International Pop Festival and Woodstock . At the beginning of 1970, he briefly joined with Jerry Garcia , Phil Lesh , and Mickey Hart from Grateful Dead , billed as "David and

2660-555: The album, including vocals, synthesizer, and various Turkish, Moroccan, and Kurdish percussion instruments. The album received critical acclaim. Michael League has worked as producer or co-producer on 42 albums for artists including: In 2017, the GroundUP Music Festival, also known as GUMFest, debuted within the grounds of the North Beach Band Shell in North Beach, Miami . The first GroundUP Music Festival

2736-501: The band as League noted to David Browne in Rolling Stone : "We’re more into setting up nice grooves that we like and sitting with things a bit longer." Although the band had recorded several albums with a small audience of friends, family, and guests in the studio with them, its first true "live, in-concert" album was Live at the Royal Albert Hall , recorded before a sold-out crowd at the historic London venue . The album won

2812-540: The band has given clinics, workshops, and master classes in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Most members either lead or are primary players in other working recording bands. In 2005, League self-released the band's unofficial first album, Live at Uncommon Ground . Snarky Puppy's next three albums were released independently, after which Tell Your Friends , groundUP , Family Dinner – Volume 1 , and We Like It Here were released on

2888-475: The band should record only original material despite the recent commercial failure of " Lady Friend ", a Crosby-penned single that stalled at No.   82 on the American charts following its release. McGuinn and Hillman dismissed Crosby in October after he refused to countenance the recording of a cover of Goffin and King 's " Goin' Back ". While Crosby contributed to three compositions and five recordings on

2964-549: The band's GroundUP imprint on Ropeadope . The album We Like It Here was performed and recorded live in October 2013 at the artistic compound Kytopia in Utrecht , Netherlands. On January 26, 2014, Snarky Puppy and vocalist Lalah Hathaway won a Grammy Award in the Best R&;B Performance category for their rendition of the Brenda Russell song "Something" from Family Dinner – Volume 1 . Sylva debuted at number one on

3040-583: The band's tour, Live at the Capitol Theatre, released October 4, 2022. In 1996, Crosby formed CPR or Crosby, Pevar & Raymond with session guitarist Jeff Pevar , and pianist James Raymond, Crosby's son. The group released two studio albums and two live albums before disbanding in 2004. The first song that Crosby and Raymond co-wrote, "Morrison", was performed live for the first time in January 1997. The song recalled Crosby's feelings about

3116-510: The duo in a 1971 acoustic performance with no supporting band. Crosby songs recorded by C&N in the 1970s include "Whole Cloth", "Where Will I Be?", "Page 43", "Games", "The Wall Song", "Carry Me", "Bittersweet", "Naked in the Rain" (co-written with Nash), "Low Down Payment", "Homeward Through the Haze", "Time After Time", "Dancer", "Taken at All" (also co-written with Nash), and "Foolish Man". During

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3192-411: The duo of Crosby & Nash also recorded three gold albums in the 1970s. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (CSNY) reunions were held in each decade from the 1970s through the 2000s. Crosby released eight solo albums, albeit sporadically, over the course of his career. His solo debut was 1971's If I Could Only Remember My Name . The last five of his solo albums, beginning with Croz (2014), came in

3268-465: The early days of the original 10-piece band, if someone got an opportunity to earn more money than for the band's gig, "...we'd get a substitute and if the substitute played well, then it felt like, 'Well, they learned the music and played great, what a waste for them to learn all that for one gig...' so we would kind of just keep them in the Rolodex, so to speak, and rotate them in and out. Then it became

3344-410: The final album, his controversial ménage à trois ode " Triad " was omitted. Jefferson Airplane released a Grace Slick -sung cover on Crown of Creation (1968), and three years later, Crosby released a solo acoustic version on Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's double live album 4 Way Street (1971). The Byrds' version appeared decades later on the 1987 Never Before release and later on

3420-430: The first two albums, he sang lead on the bridge in their second single " All I Really Want to Do ". In 1966, Clark, who then was the band's primary songwriter, left the group because of stress and this placed all the group's songwriting responsibilities in the hands of McGuinn, Crosby, and Hillman. Crosby took the opportunity to hone his craft and soon became a relatively prolific songwriter, collaborating with McGuinn on

3496-418: The full GroundUP Music roster, among others. GroundUP Music Festival, Miami, is now planned as an annual event. David Crosby David Van Cortlandt Crosby (August 14, 1941 – January 18, 2023) was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He first found fame as a member of the Byrds , with whom he helped pioneer the genres of folk rock and psychedelia in the mid-1960s, and later as part of

3572-487: The full GroundUP Music roster, among others. Through February 2020 (and prior to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic ), GroundUP Music Festival, Miami, had become an annual event. Snarky Puppy is sometimes referred to as a "collective." The band's current roster boasts about 19 members, and well over 40 musicians have performed with the group over the years and through the group's 14 albums. Michael League explains that, in

3648-454: The grounds of the North Beach Band Shell in North Beach, Miami . The first GroundUP Music Festival was initiated by Andy Hurwitz, directed by Paul Lehr, and artistically directed by Michael League . The festival features performances by Snarky Puppy all three nights, with a line-up curated by League that has featured Michael McDonald , Cecile McLorin Salvant , David Crosby , Béla Fleck and

3724-689: The group, and with him, they recorded the album Déjà Vu , which peaked at No.   1 on the Billboard 200 and the ARIA Charts . On September 30, 1969, Crosby's longtime girlfriend Christine Hinton was killed in a car accident only days after Hinton, Crosby, and Debbie Donovan moved from Los Angeles to the San Francisco Bay Area . Crosby was devastated, and he began abusing drugs more severely than he had before. Nevertheless, he still managed to contribute " Almost Cut My Hair " and

3800-408: The invitation of Stephen Stills, he sat in with Buffalo Springfield 's set the following night, after Young had quit the band and was replaced by guitarist Doug Hastings. The internal conflict boiled over during the initial recording sessions for The Notorious Byrd Brothers (1968) that summer, where differences over song selections led to intra-band arguments. In particular, Crosby was adamant that

3876-452: The last decade of his life. Additionally, he formed a jazz -influenced trio with his son James Raymond and guitarist Jeff Pevar in CPR . He also appeared frequently on recordings by other artists, including Joni Mitchell , Jefferson Airplane , Jackson Browne , James Taylor , Elton John and David Gilmour . Crosby's combined work with the Byrds and CSNY has sold over 35 million albums. He

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3952-681: The late 1980s to the early 1990s. He sang backup to Collins in " That's Just the Way It Is " and " Another Day in Paradise ", and, on his own 1993 song, " Hero ", from his album Thousand Roads , Collins sang backup. In 1992, Crosby sang backup on the album Rites of Passage with the Indigo Girls on the tracks Galileo and Let it Be Me . In 1999, he appeared on Return of the Grievous Angel: A Tribute to Gram Parsons , singing

4028-526: The late 1980s, toured regularly year after year. The group continued to perform live, and since 1982 released four albums of new material: American Dream (1988, with Young), Live It Up (1990), After the Storm (1994), and Looking Forward (1999, with Young). In addition, Crosby & Nash released the self-titled album Crosby & Nash in 2004. Full-scale CSNY tours took place in 2000, 2002, and 2006. Crosby, Stills, and Nash appeared together on

4104-508: The latter's presidential campaign. In September 2017, Crosby announced a solo album (his third one of original material in four years and his sixth in total) entitled Sky Trails , again with Raymond, to be released on September 29, 2017, on BMG . In April 2018, Crosby appeared on NPR 's Live from Here , playing duets with host Chris Thile . On October 26, 2018, Crosby released Here If You Listen on BMG, his first collaborative album with League, Stevens, and Willis, all members of

4180-417: The mid-1970s, Crosby and Nash enjoyed careers as session musicians, contributing harmonies and background vocals to albums by Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne (whom Crosby had initially championed as an emerging songwriter), Dave Mason , Rick Roberts , James Taylor (most notably "Lighthouse" and " Mexico "), Art Garfunkel , Carole King , Elton John , JD Souther , and Gary Wright . Renewing his ties to

4256-670: The more than 17 years since its founding, approximately 40 players have performed in "The Fam" on guitar, bass, keyboards, woodwinds, brass, strings, drums, and percussion, but six of the 10 members on the first studio album, The Only Constant , remain on the regular roster. Many past and present band members were students at the University of North Texas . Members have performed with Erykah Badu , Marcus Miller , Justin Timberlake , Stanley Clarke , Kirk Franklin , Ari Hoenig , Roy Hargrove , David Crosby , Michael McDonald , Snoop Dogg , The 1975 and many other artists. While touring,

4332-516: The name the Jet Set. Crosby joined them, and they were augmented by drummer Michael Clarke , at which point Crosby attempted, unsuccessfully, to play bass. Late in 1964, Chris Hillman joined the band as bassist, and Crosby relieved Gene Clark of rhythm guitar duties. Through connections that Jim Dickson (The Byrds' manager) had with Bob Dylan 's music publisher , the band obtained a demo acetate disc of Dylan's " Mr. Tambourine Man " and recorded

4408-549: The other two members of CPR in 2018 as David Crosby & Friends, performing a series of shows in support of Crosby's new album Skytrails . During the global pandemic, Crosby also hosted a podcast for the Osiris music network with his friend, journalist Steve Silberman . Crosby and Celia Crawford Ferguson had a son, James Raymond, in 1962. James was placed for adoption and later reunited with Crosby as an adult. Beginning in 1997, Raymond performed with Crosby on stage and in

4484-495: The personalities of the new people that would come in, brick by brick. ...in general, the guys understand what the band is – a rotating cast... But I don't really think of Snarky Puppy as a collective. It's just a large band and sometimes people aren't there. It doesn't feel like a revolving door, it doesn't feel anonymous at all. The guys who have played gigs with us the least have still played several hundred gigs. That's more than most people play with their own bands. So it's very much

4560-575: The portrayal of Jim Morrison in the movie The Doors . The success of the 1997 tour spawned a record project, Live at Cuesta College , released in March 1998. There is a second CPR studio record, Just Like Gravity , and another live recording, Live at the Wiltern , recorded at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles, which also features Phil Collins and Graham Nash. After the group split, Raymond continued to perform with Crosby as part of

4636-652: The prominent Van Cortlandt family ; they "regularly inhabited the New York society pages before their wedding". Crosby’s older brother was musician Ethan Crosby. His brother inspired his early love of jazz , particularly John Coltrane and Miles Davis ; the latter would later recommend that Columbia Records sign the Byrds , and then cover the Crosby composition " Guinnevere ." Their parents divorced in 1960, and his father then married Betty Cormack Andrews. Growing up in California, he attended several schools, including

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4712-407: The song " Hey Joe ", he persuaded the other members of the Byrds to record it on Fifth Dimension . By Younger Than Yesterday , the Byrds' 1967 album, Crosby began to find his trademark style on songs such as "Renaissance Fair" (co-written with McGuinn), "Mind Gardens", and "It Happens Each Day"; however, the latter song was omitted from the final album and ultimately restored as a bonus track on

4788-442: The studio, as a member of CPR , and as part of the touring bands Crosby & Nash and Crosby, plus Stills & Nash. Crosby had three other children: daughter Erika, with Jackie Guthrie, daughter Donovan Crosby, with former girlfriend Debbie Donovan, and son Django Crosby, conceived with wife Jan Dance after extensive fertility treatments while Crosby's liver was failing. Crosby, then 45, married Jan Dance, then 35, in May 1987 at

4864-491: The title track of John Mayer 's 2012 album Born and Raised . In January 2014, Crosby released his first solo album in 20 years, Croz , recorded in close collaboration with his son James Raymond (of the CPR band) at the latter's home studio. On July 14, 2016, Crosby announced a new solo album named Lighthouse , which was released on October 21, 2016, and shared a new track from it titled "Things We Do for Love". The album

4940-520: The tour, the foursome attempted once again to record a new album, provisionally entitled Human Highway . The recording sessions, which took place at the Record Plant in Sausalito , were very unpleasant, marked by constant bickering. The acrimonious atmosphere was too much for Neil Young, who deserted the sessions and the album was never completed. In rehearsals for the 1974 tour, CSNY recorded

5016-537: The touring bands for C&N and CSN, as well as on solo Crosby projects, including 2014's Croz and the subsequent tour. Pevar has toured with many artists over his productive career, including CSN, Ray Charles, Rickie Lee Jones, and Marc Cohn. Pevar has a solo record, From the Core , which was improvised and recorded in the Oregon Caves and features the vocalist from Yes , Jon Anderson . Crosby reunited with

5092-413: The up-tempo "I See You" (covered by Yes on their 1969 debut ) and penning the ruminative "What's Happening". His early Byrds efforts also included the 1966 hit " Eight Miles High " (to which he contributed one line, according to Clark, while Clark and McGuinn wrote the rest), and its flip side " Why ", co-written with McGuinn. Because Crosby felt responsible for and was widely credited with popularizing

5168-459: Was an immediate hit, spawning two Top 40 hit singles and receiving key airplay on the new FM radio format, in its early days populated by unfettered disc jockeys who then had the option of playing entire albums at once. The songs Crosby wrote while in CSN include " Guinnevere ", "Almost Cut My Hair", "Long Time Gone", and "Delta". He also co-wrote " Wooden Ships " with Paul Kantner of Jefferson Airplane and Stills. In 1969, Neil Young joined

5244-401: Was born on August 14, 1941, in Los Angeles, California, the second son of Academy Award -winning cinematographer Floyd Crosby , who formerly worked on Wall Street , and Aliph Van Cortlandt Whitehead, a salesperson at Macy's department store. His father was a relative of the Van Rensselaer family , and his mother—granddaughter of Bishop of Pittsburgh Cortlandt Whitehead —descended from

5320-409: Was followed by the release of the 50th-anniversary expanded version of If I Could Only Remember My Name on October 15. It contains remastered songs as well as demos from the original recording sessions. During promotion for the rerelease, Crosby said that his second collaborative album with League, Stevens, and Willis was in the works. The result, Crosby's final release, was a live album recorded during

5396-406: Was given the lead in the Junior Class Play. Crosby briefly studied drama at Santa Barbara City College before dropping out to pursue a career in music. He performed with singer Terry Callier in Chicago and Greenwich Village , but the duo failed to obtain a recording contract. He also performed with Les Baxter's Balladeers in 1964/1965 and published four singles in 1965, including a cover of

5472-637: Was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice: once for his work in the Byrds and again for his work with CSN. Five albums to which he contributed are included in Rolling Stone ' s list of " The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time ", three with the Byrds and two with CSN(Y). He was also an occasional actor, appearing as a member of Captain Hook's pirate crew in Hook (1991). David Van Cortlandt Crosby

5548-588: Was initiated by Andy Hurwitz, directed by Paul Lehr, and artistically directed by Michael League. The festival features performances by Snarky Puppy all three nights, with a line-up curated by League that has featured David Crosby , Béla Fleck and the Flecktones , The Wood Brothers , Robert Glasper , Knower , Concha Buika , C4 Trio, Pedrito Martinez , Jojo Mayer + Nerve, Mark Guiliana 's Beat Music, John Medeski 's Mad Skillet, Charlie Hunter Trio , Laura Mvula , Eliades Ochoa, Esperanza Spalding , Lionel Loueke , Joshua Redman and Terence Blanchard , as well as

5624-524: Was produced by Michael League of the big band Snarky Puppy , whom he met on Twitter, and also featured contributions by future collaborators Becca Stevens and Michelle Willis . On August 26, 2016, Crosby announced a U.S. tour, an 18-date trek to launch on November 18, 2016, in Atlanta , Georgia, and to conclude on December 16, 2016, in Ithaca, New York . He also spoke out against Donald Trump during

5700-565: Was requested to do so in his senior high school jazz band. He was raised Catholic . League went on to study jazz at the University of North Texas , then spent three years playing in Dallas's Gospel and R&B scene under the unofficial mentorship of keyboardist Bernard Wright . There he performed with gospel artists like Walter Hawkins , Kirk Franklin , Marvin Sapp , Myron Butler & Levi , and Israel Houghton , and frequently performed at

5776-423: Was the biological father of two children with her partner Julie Cypher by means of artificial insemination . On May 13, 2020, Etheridge announced on her Twitter account that her and Cypher's son Beckett had died of causes related to opioid addiction at the age of 21. Crosby, in partnership with longtime friend and entrepreneur Steven Sponder, developed a craft cannabis brand called "MIGHTY CROZ". Crosby,

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