Graham Nash - Songs For Beginners / 45RPM 2LP Analogue Productions

After rising to fame with the Hollies and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, expatriate Englishman and West Coast rock icon Graham Nash made his promising solo debut in 1971 with “Songs For Beginners.”

The album is an exemplary singer-songwriter work that strikes an important balance between graceful introspection and political passion. And although it is very personal, it still carries the harmonies, heart,

and messages that made CSN(Y) so unique. “Songs For Beginners” reached high chart positions worldwide immediately after its release and was certified Gold.

With support from David Crosby, Jerry Garcia (The Grateful Dead) and Dave Mason (Traffic), the sensitive self-reflections “I Used To Be A King” and “Man In The Mirror” and the passionate protest anthems

‘Chicago’ and “Military Madness” are among the album's best-known songs. If CSNY's “Déjà Vu” was a wild canyon party with four competing egos, then “Songs For Beginners” is Nash's introspective morning

after – a mixture of heartbreak, hope and rebellion. Nash recorded the album while still reeling from his break-up with Joni Mitchell, and that melancholy is evident in every note. But “Songs For Beginners” doesn't

dwell on the pain of separation: it's also a call to action, packed with the folk-rock anthems that made Nash an indispensable voice of his time.

As part of the “Atlantic 75 Series,” Analogue Productions is now honoring this masterful album with a sonically outstanding reissue, lovingly mastered by Bernie Grundman: The double LP, pressed on 180-gram vinyl

by industry leader Quality Record Pressings (QRP) and cut at 45 RPM, comes in a luxurious old-style tip-on gatefold double pocket jacket by Stoughton Printing.

Title

LP 1

Side A
1.    Military Madness
2.    Better Days
3.    Wounded Bird

Side B
4.    I Used To Be A King
5.    Be Yourself

LP 2

Side C
6.    Simple Man
7.    Man In The Mirror
8.    There's Only One

Side D
9.    Sleep Song
10.    Chicago
11.    We Can Change The World