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    DAVID CROSBY

    Jul 15, 2021 3 minutes
    By Terry Staunton

    For Free BMG

    8/10

    THE renewed and reinvigorated Crosby’s twilight productivity continues apace as he approaches his 80th birthday this August. For Free is his fifth album since Croz, 2014’s comeback after a 20-year absence from the studio, again with the guiding hand of his multi-instrumentalist and producer son James Raymond and the same core of musicians, now dubbed the Sky Trails Band.

    Yet, while the record’s 10 tracks are elegantly shaped by players plucked from a younger generation, there, stripped back here as an intimate piano ballad with Texan singer-songwriter Sarah Jarosz as duet partner.

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