Just A Song Before I Go – Crosby, Stills & Nash – FRANKS BASS COVERS #shorts

Just A Song Before I Go – Crosby, Stills & Nash – FRANKS BASS COVERS #shorts

Released: June ‘77 from the album CSN

The Song
#grahamnash ash wrote this song on a bet.

#davidcrosby explained in the liner notes to their 1991 boxed set: “Graham was a home in Hawaii, about to go off on tour. The guy who was going to take him to the airport said, ‘We’ve got 15 minutes, I’ll bet you can’t write a song in that amount of time.’ Well, you don’t smart off to Nash like that, he’ll do it. This is the result.”

Going to the airport and his day of travel were on Nash’s mind, so that’s what he wrote about: “driving me to the airport and to the friendly skies.” The “song before I go” was for his friend who made him the bet.

This was the first single released from the re-formed Crosby, Stills & Nash

In the US it was the highest-charting song of any iteration of the group.

The group’s first album came in 1969, and they won the Best New Artist Grammy Award for that year. In 1970, they added Neil Young

Bass Player: Tim Drummond
Toured and recorded with many notable artists, Conway Twitty, Bob Dylan, James Brown, Eric Clapton, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Miles Davis, B.B. King, Joe Cocker, Albert Collins, Jewel, and many others.

The Band
David Crosby – vocals, acoustic guitar
#stephenstills – vocals, electric guitar
Graham Nash – vocals, piano
Additional musicians
Joe Vitale – electric piano
Tim Drummond – bass (20 April 1940 – 10 January 2015
Russ Kunkel – drums, percussion