Graham Nash – Over The Years… (2018) [FLAC 24bit/44,1kHz]

Rhino looks back at some of Graham Nash‘s best-known recordings from the past 50 years in a new anthology featuring more than a dozen unreleased demos and mixes…

Over The Years is a 30-track collection (curated by Nash and Joel Bernstein) which features highlights from the CSN debut album (Marrakesh Express), CSNY follow-up Deja Vu (Our House, Teach Your Children) and song selections from subsequent CSN albums. Four tracks from Nash’s 1971 solo album Songs For Beginners feature, with Better Days and I Used To Be King presented as unreleased mixes. The most recent recording on the compilation is Myself At Last from Nash’s 2016 solo album This Path Tonight.

The real interest for collectors will be the second disc in this set which features 15 demo recordings, 12 of which have never been released. Highlights include the 1968 London demo of Marrakesh Express (rejected by the Hollies) and early versions of CSN classics like Our House, Wasted On The Way, and Teach Your Children.
“It does my heart good to present my songs this way. I hope that listeners will enjoy hearing the demos of my songs – how my demos of ‘Our House,’ ‘Teach Your Children,’ and others turned into the records that have endured ‘Over The Years,’ how I started writing them, and how they became the now familiar recordings when they were released,” said Nash.

This two-CD set is also incredibly cheap in the UK right now, at just £7.21 which rather makes it hard *not* to purchase it! Update 8/5/18: It’s now £4.99!!

Over The Years will be issued on 29 June 2018. There will be a 2LP vinyl edition (with an etched fourth side) but this doesn’t feature any of the demos and isn’t due until 31 August

Tracklist:
CD 1
1. Marrakesh Express – Crosby, Stills & Nash
2. Military Madness – Graham Nash
3. Immigration Man – Crosby/Nash
4. Just A Song Before I Go – Crosby, Stills & Nash
5. I Used To Be King – Graham Nash *
6. Better Days – Graham Nash *
7. Simple Man – Graham Nash
8. Teach Your Children – Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
9. Lady Of The Island – Crosby, Stills & Nash
10. Wind On The Water – Crosby & Nash
11. Our House – Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
12. Cathedral – Crosby, Stills & Nash
13. Wasted On The Way – Crosby, Stills & Nash
14. Chicago/We Can Change The World – Graham Nash
15. Myself At Last – Graham Nash
CD 2: The Demos
1. Marrakesh Express – London, 1968
2. Horses Through A Rainstorm – London, 1968
3. Teach Your Children – Hollywood, 1969
4. Pre-Road Downs – Hollywood, 1969
5. Our House – San Francisco, 1969
6. Right Between The Eyes – San Francisco, 1969 *
7. Sleep Song – San Francisco, 1969 *
8. Chicago – Hollywood, 1970 *
9. Man In The Mirror – Hollywood, 1970
10. Simple Man – Hollywood, 1970
11. I Miss You – San Francisco, 1972
12. You’ll Never Be The Same – San Francisco, 1972
13. Wind On The Water – San Francisco, 1975
14. Just A Song Before I Go – San Francisco, 1976
15. Wasted On The Way – Oahu, 1980
* Previously unreleased mixes