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))

 

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

 

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"