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Just A Minute With: singer-songwriter Graham Nash
Wed Feb 11, 2009 1:45pm EST
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Graham Nash, the English guy in the rock supergroup Crosby, Stills & Nash, is back in the studio working on the first CSN album in a decade and has just released a three-disc box-set of his work.
The writer of rock classics such as "Teach Your Children" and "Our House," grew up in Manchester, in post-war England. Inspired by rock 'n roll stars like Buddy Holly and the Everly Brothers, he formed The Hollies, which had several hits and was a part of the "British Invasion" of America.
But he found his true calling when he teamed with David Crosby and Stephen Stills in Los Angeles to write and perform some of the songs that defined the Woodstock era of social upheaval of the late 1960's and 70's.
Rhino Records just released a box-set of the work of Nash who is now 67. Nash spoke to Reuters about music, his mother, Woodstock and President Barack Obama.
Q. Did your parents approve of your musical career?
A. "My parents encouraged me, when everyone else was getting hit upside the head and told 'get a real job.' Before my mother died I asked her why they didn't put me off and she said, 'Because I wanted to be a singer on the stage. But then World War Two came and I married your dad and (had) three kids, and my dreams were gone.' But she said 'I'm living my dreams through your life.'
"That's why at Carnegie Hall ... I put my hand in my pocket and pulled out some ashes of my mother and spread them on the stage. She always wanted to play and I took her there."
Q. You have three kids, have we taught our children well?
A. "My kids have always known that as long as they have passion for what they are doing, I will be proud of them.
"As a generation, everything gets better. Politically, we're a lot better off. Eight years of the Bush administration's abysmal record ... fooling around with the constitution and messing with individual rights. Bush was a nightmare, we've come out of the nightmare."
Q. Will you write about that?
A. "I don't know yet, it's a difficult subject to write about but I'm constantly thinking about how much hope Obama has brought to the world."
Q. You live in Hawaii, have you met Obama.
A. "I met him in San Francisco when Jackson Browne and I did a benefit for him. I checked his body language out ... his eye contact, because I wanted to know who is this man?
"You can find out more about a person by how he treats other people ... My conclusion is that this is a brilliant man, he can certainly think, he can put a sentence together. He has a vision for this country that I believe we should follow." Continued...
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