CSNY: Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young Audiobook (Free)

“A must for CSNY enthusiasts.” —Kirkus Evaluations, starred review

The first ever biography focused on the formative and highly influential early years of “rock’s first supergroup” (Rolling Rock) Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young—if they were the most successful, influential, and politically potent music group in America—honoring the fiftieth anniversary of Woodstock and the formation of the band itself.

1969 to 1974 were true golden many years of rock n’ roll, bookmarking a time of arguably unparalleled about CSNY: Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young musical power and innovation. But a lot more than any of their eminent peers, David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, and Neil Youthful channeled and transmit all the radical anger, passionate idealism, and generational angst of their own time. Each of the members had already made their marks in huge bands (The Hollies, Buffalo Springfield, The Byrds), but collectively, their harmonies had been transcendent.

The vast emotional selection of their music, from sensitive acoustic confessionals to raucous counter-culture anthems, was mirrored in the turbulence of their personal lives. Their trademark may have been vocal tranquility, but few—if any—of their contemporaries could match the recklessness of their hedonistic and often combative lifestyles, when the four tenacious, volatile, and prodigal songwriters pursued chemical and sexual joy to life-threatening extremes.

CSNY chronicles these four iconic musicians and the movement they came to represent, focusing on their perfect as a collective unit and a cultural force: the years between 1969, when Woodstock telegraphed their introduction to the world, and 1974, when their arch-enemy Richard Nixon was driven from workplace, and the music group (to estimate Graham Nash himself) “shed it on the highway.”

Actually fifty years later, there are many stories left to be told about Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Little—and music historian Peter Doggett is here to bring these to light in the meticulously researched CSNY, a quintessential and illuminative account of rock and roll’s first supergroup within their fantastic hour for die-hard followers, nostalgic flower-children, and music history aficionados alike.