No Innocent Deed goes unpunished
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By ottawa's hero
You could very effectively make the case, based on this CD and a couple of simply awful Stills Cds of the period, that the victims of Crosby's drug abuse were his friends (well, that's as categorical a conclusion as you'll ever find). In Nash's case, he has never been a stand alone artist. Yes, the first record was very good, but look who played on it. He's a bit light. Paired with dubious aesthetic choices on this record, and all you get are his weaknesses: a lack of gravitas, a Hallmark card set of lyrics, his Mancunian intonation underscoring wheezing synths and drum programs. This is a mess. He is not a musician's musician and he is even less a singer's singer. His harmonies are indeed celestial, but harmonizing and soloing are a gap he rarely bridged without the sonorities of Stills and the mellifluous tones of crackhead. Naked on the stage, he's not a pretty sight. He should have marched into the Texas Prison and demanded from the warden that Crosby become everyone's shower toy. Better days would come, but avoid this.
