Artist: Graham Nash
Album: Now (BMG)
At the grand old age of 81, and with seven years passed since his last studio album, it was hard to shake the impression that Graham Nash had withdrawn to the creative hinterland where rock legends go to wind down, play the hits and tend to their back catalogues.
We should have known better. Half a century since he mobilised the Woodstock generation with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, the songwriter is brimming with new material on this year’s, squaring up to a modern world that didn’t get the ‘peace and love’ memo, and still in possession of an underrated acoustic touch that weaves among his ageless vocal. We called Nash at his home in California to find out