Reflections (2009)

Product Summary Label: Rhino Records UPC: 00081227993580 Release Date: 2/3/2009 Buy.com Sku: 210607086 Item#: M4K43W Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. On a Carousel - (with The Hollies) ~ Graham Nash 2. Carrie Anne - (with The Hollies) ~ Graham Nash 3. King Midas In Reverse - (with The Hollies) ~ Graham Nash 4. Marakesh Express - (with Crosby, Stills & Nash) ~ Graham Nash 5. Pre-Road Downs - (with Crosby, Stills & Nash) ~ Graham Nash 6. Lady of the Island - (with Crosby, Stills & Nash) ~ Graham Nash 7. Our House - (with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young) ~ Graham Nash 8. Teach Your Children - (with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young) ~ Graham Nash 9. Right Between the Eyes - (with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young) ~ Graham Nash 10. I Used To Be a King ~ Graham Nash 11. Simple Man ~ Graham Nash 12. Man In the Mirror ~ Graham Nash 13. Better Days ~ Graham Nash 14. Military Madness ~ Graham Nash 15. Sleep Song ~ Graham Nash 16. Medley: Chicago/We Can Change the World ~ Graham Nash 17. Southbound Tain - (with David Crosby) ~ Graham Nash 18. Immigration Man - (with David Crosby) ~ Graham Nash 19. Wild Tales ~ Graham Nash 20. Prison Song ~ Graham Nash 21. Oh ! Camil (the Winter Soldier) ~ Graham Nash 22. On the Line ~ Graham Nash 23. You'll Never Be the Same ~ Graham Nash 24. Another Sleep Song ~ Graham Nash Disc 2 Song Title Sample 1. To the Last Whale: Critical Mass/Wind On the Water - (with David Crosby) ~ Graham Nash 2. Fieldworker - (with David Crosby) ~ Graham Nash 3. Cowboy of Dreams - (with David Crosby) ~ Graham Nash 4. Love Work Out - (with David Crosby) ~ Graham Nash 5. Marguerita - (with David Crosby) ~ Graham Nash 6. Taken At All - (with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young) ~ Graham Nash 7. Mutiny - (with David Crosby) ~ Graham Nash 8. Just a Song Before I Go - (with Crosby, Stills & Nash) ~ Graham Nash 9. Cold Rain ~ Graham Nash 10. Cathedral - (with Crosby, Stills & Nash) ~ Graham Nash 11. Barrel of Pain (Half 4-Life) ~ Graham Nash 12. Magical Child ~ Graham Nash 13. Song For Susan - (with Crosby, Stills & Nash) ~ Graham Nash 14. Wasted On the Way - (with Crosby, Stills & Nash) ~ Graham Nash 15. Love is the Reason ~ Graham Nash 16. Raise a Voice - (with Crosby, Stills & Nash) ~ Graham Nash 17. Clear Blue Skies - (with Crosby, Stills & Nash) ~ Graham Nash 18. Lonely Man - (with Crosby, Stills & Nash) ~ Graham Nash 19. Sad Eyes ~ Graham Nash 20. Water From the Moon ~ Graham Nash 21. Soldiers of Peace - (with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young) ~ Graham Nash Disc 3 Song Title Sample 1. If Anybody Had a Heart - (with Crosby, Stills & Nash) ~ Graham Nash 2. Chippin' Away ~ Graham Nash 3. After the Dolphin - (with Crosby, Stills & Nash) ~ Graham Nash 4. House of Broken Dreams - (with Crosby, Stills & Nash) ~ Graham Nash 5. Unequal Love ~ Graham Nash 6. Liar's Nightmare ~ Graham Nash 7. Heartland - (with Crosby, Stills & Nash) ~ Graham Nash 8. These Empty Days - (with Crosby, Stills & Nash) ~ Graham Nash 9. Try To Find Me ~ Graham Nash 10. Two Hearts - (with Carole King) ~ Graham Nash 11. Behind the Shades ~ Graham Nash 12. Michael (Hedges Here) ~ Graham Nash 13. I Surrender - (with David Crosby) ~ Graham Nash 14. Live On (the Wall) - (with David Crosby) ~ Graham Nash 15. Dirty Little Secret ~ Graham Nash 16. We Breathe the Same Air ~ Graham Nash 17. Grace - (with David Crosby) ~ Graham Nash 18. Jesus of Rio - (with David Crosby) ~ Graham Nash 19. In Your Name ~ Graham Nash   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info Over the course of its three discs, REFLECTIONS chronicles the long, rich career of Graham Nash. The set moves pretty much chronologically, beginning with the pop hits Nash scored in the 1960s with British Invasion heroes the Hollies before moving on to his work with Crosby, Stills & Nash (and sometimes Young), as well as the Crosby & Nash side project, and of course, Nash's solo recordings. Nash brought an all-important pop sensibility to CSN, resulting in classic tracks like "Marrakesh Express" and "Our House," but his more intense side came out on such cuts as "Cathedral" and "Military Madness," and this set includes all those and more. Hardcore Nash fans will be especially attracted to the numerous alternate mixes and previously unreleased songs that dot the track listing. He's been part of two huge-selling international superstar rock groups, and recorded some very popular albums on his own and with David Crosby. Yet Graham Nash has never been thought of as a talent in his own right the way that, to varying degrees, either of his three bandmates in Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young have. This three-CD, 64-track box set can be seen as both a way of focusing the spotlight on Nash's work both within and outside of his famous bands, and also as a career retrospective of sorts, spanning as it does about 40 years of recordings. Like almost all such box sets, however, it won't be as balanced as everyone would like between his various career phases and contexts, or contain as much in the way of revelatory rarities as some would hope. To start with the set's strengths, certainly it includes virtually all of the material for which Nash is most known as a songwriter, and to some degree as a lead singer. All of the major songs he wrote as part of CSN (or CSNY) are here in their celebrated official versions, prominent among them "Marrakesh Express," "Pre-Road Downs," "Our House," and "Teach Your Children." So is his sole Top 40 hit single, "Chicago"; highlights from his first/best/most commercially successful solo album, Songs for Beginners; and numerous tracks from his collaborative efforts with Crosby. The 150-page booklet has lots of photos and insightful comments on each track by Nash himself. It should be noted, however, that although half of cuts are previously unreleased, about two-thirds of these are alternate mixes of officially issued tracks, not actual alternate versions or recordings previously unavailable in any form. Among the genuinely alternate versions/previously unreleased recordings, only a 1969 solo acoustic demo of "Right Between the Eyes" rates as a notable find, though a live 1993 version of "Liar's Nightmare" (with Nils Lofgren on guitar) and the Fast Times at Ridgemont High soundtrack contribution "Love Is the Reason" count as interesting rarities. Even considering that he didn't have sole songwriting credits until joining CSN, the Hollies period seems underrepresented, with just three tracks by that group finding inclusion (all 1967 hits, including the one on which Nash's songwriting ambitions were most evident, "King Midas in Reverse"). And there's no denying that disc one, with the highlights of his late-'60s/early-'70s work, is by far the best of the three CDs, much of the rest coming off as undistinguished in comparison. It's the music on the first disc for which Nash will mostly be remembered. His subsequent output, as documented on the remainder of the set, was too often ordinary soft rock that, unlike his earlier work, did not capture either the musical or cultural Zeitgeist. It's also true that, for CSN fans in particular, it can seem odd hearing so much Nash-dominated material at once when it works so much better interspersed with the compositions and lead singing of his famous bandmates. Nevertheless, as a songwriter he remained consistently devoted to themes of peace, progressive politics, and adult romance, even when those weren't fashionable to promote as idealistically as Nash has. For all its ups and downs, this is the release likely to most effectively spotlight and summarize the contributions to rock music that he's made as a singer/songwriter. ~ Richie Unterberger   Compilation Appearances Gorilla Parkinsong Vol 1: 38 Songs Of Hope Mary Had A Little Amp Man Alive Headin Home Neil Young Archives Volume I (63-72) Demos Up In The Air (Ost)   Associated Artists and Works Crosby, David Crosby, David Wind On The Water [Remaster] ~ Crosby, David Crosby, David Crosby, David Crosby, David Crosby * Nash ~ Crosby, David Crosby, David Crosby, David Crosby, David Crosby, David Crosby, David Crosby, David   Technical Info Release Date : 02/03/2009 Original Release Date : 2009 Catalog ID : 446076 Label : Atlantic (USA) Number of Discs : 3 Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00081227993580   Professional Reviews Mojo (Publisher) (p.122) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Several of its most exhilarating moments are found in his recent work, such as a tribute to Roy Orbison, and 'Dirty Little Secret,' a stirring recreation of a shameful episode in US history."    Related Videos In Search of Solid Ground... 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