Songs For Beginners
1971
Enregistrament: 1970-1971 (Wally Heiders Studio
III, Los Angeles i Studio "C", San Francisco)
Publicació: 28 de maig de 1971 (23 de setembre
de 2008 (CD+DVD))
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01-Military Madness 02-Better Days 03-Wounded Bird 04-I Used to Be a King 05-Be Yourself 06-Simple Man 07-Man in the Mirror 08-There's Only One 09-Sleep Song 10-Chicago 11-We Can Change the World |
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Songs for
Beginners és el primer àlbum d'estudi en solitari del cantant i compositor
britànic Graham Nash. Llançat el maig de 1971, va ser un dels quatre àlbums
d'alt perfil (tots entre els quinze primers) publicats per cada soci de Crosby,
Stills, Nash & Young arran del seu àlbum Déjà Vu de 1970, juntament amb
After the Gold Rush (Neil Young, setembre de 1970), Stephen Stills (Stephen
Stills, novembre de 1970) i If I Could Only Remember My Name (David Crosby, febrer
de 1971). Va arribar al número 15 de la llista Billboard Top Pop Albums, i el
senzill "Chicago" va arribar al número 35 del Billboard Hot 100. Ha
estat certificat com a disc d'or per la RIAA.
Músics
Graham Nash: veu;
guitarra totes les cançons excepte "Better Days" i "Simple
Man"; piano a "Better Days", "Simple Man",
"Chicago" i "We Can Change the World"; orgue a "Better
Days", "There's Only One", "Chicago" i "We Can
Change the World"; paper i pinta a "Sleep Song"; tamborí a
"Chicago" i " We Can Change the World"
Rita Coolidge: piano
a "Be Yourself" i "There's Only One"; piano elèctric a
"Be Yourself"; cors de suport a "Military Madness",
"Better Days", "Simple Man", "There's Only One",
"Chicago" i "We Can Change the World"
Jerry Garcia: guitarra
d'acer de pedal a "I Used to Be a King" i "Man in the
Mirror"
Neil Young: piano a
"Better Days", "Man in the Mirror" i "I Used to Be a
King"
Dorian
Rudnytsky: violoncel a "Simple Man" i "Sleep Song"
Dave Mason: guitarra
elèctrica a "Military Madness"
David Crosby: guitarra
elèctrica a "I Used to Be a King"
Joel Bernstein:
piano a "Military Madness"
Bobby Keys: saxo a
"There's Only One"
David Lindley: violí
a "Simple Man"
Sermon
Posthumas: clarinet baix a "Better Days"
Chris Ethridge:
baix a "Man in the Mirror", "There's Only One",
"Chicago" i "We Can Change the World"
Calvin
"Fuzzy" Samuels: baix a "Military Madness",
"Better Days" i "Be Yourself"
Phil Lesh: baix a
"I Used to Be a King"
John Barbata: bateria
a "Military Madness", "I Used to Be a King", "Be
Yourself", "Man in the Mirror", "There's Only One",
"Chicago" i "We Can Change the World"; tamborí a
"Chicago"
Dallas Taylor: bateria
a "Better Days"
P.P. Arnold: cors a
"Military Madness"
Venetta Fields,
Sherlie Matthews,
Clydie King, Dorothy
Morrison: cors a "There's Only One", "Chicago" i
"We Can Change the World"