Graham Nash - Club Quatro, Tokyo, Japan, 11-21-1990

Last week, I posted a solo album by Graham Nash of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (CSNY). I pointed out then that he tends to get overlooked when compared to the other musical heavyweights in CSNY, but he's definitely been a worthy member of that group. So here's another solo album by him. 

This time, it's a full concert. For many years, he didn't do solo concerts very often, because he was usually paired with David Crosby in Crosby-Nash when he wasn't part of CSN or CSNY. He did do a couple of brief tours in 1973 and 1986, but it wasn't until 2013 when he started to tour on his own more often. This appears to have been his only concert in the year 1990. Judging from his comments between songs in this concert, he was in Japan mainly to show off some of his photographs at a gallery (since he also has a passion about photography), and this concert was a bit of an afterthought. 

But it's a lucky thing it happened, because it's one of very few Nash solo concert bootlegs with excellent sound quality. This must be a soundboard. 

Of course, it's always nice to hear Nash's songs in the context of CN, CSN, or CSNY, with vocal harmonies and often a full band. But it's also nice to hear them like this, stripped way back to just one voice and one acoustic guitar.

The only flaw came in the song "America" (a cover of the Simon and Garfunkel classic). It wasn't a flaw with the recording. Instead, it seems Nash broke a guitar string during the song. He had to stop briefly to deal with it. I edited the song to remove the interruption. That's why there's "[Edit]" in the name for that one. Also, I did a little cutting of dead air between songs, such as guitar tuning. And I boosted the vocals of his banter.

Note that the last song, "Try to Find Me," isn't actually from this concert. It was performed during a Nash solo spot in a CSN concert in 1991. But I've had this bootleg in my music collection for ages with that song added at the end, so I'm keeping it that way. I think it's a very overlooked tune. Even Nash overlooked it and didn't put it on any album for many years after he wrote it.

This album is an hour and five minutes long, including the extra song at the end.

01 Wind on the Water (Graham Nash)
02 talk (Graham Nash)
03 Just a Song Before I Go (Graham Nash)
04 talk (Graham Nash)
05 Don't Say Goodbye (Graham Nash)
06 talk (Graham Nash)
07 Marrakesh Express (Graham Nash)
08 talk (Graham Nash)
09 Simple Man (Graham Nash)
10 talk (Graham Nash)
11 Lady on the Island (Graham Nash)
12 talk (Graham Nash)
13 Wasted on the Way (Graham Nash)
14 America [Edit] (Graham Nash)
15 talk (Graham Nash)
16 Cowboy of Dreams (Graham Nash)
17 talk (Graham Nash)
18 House of Broken Dreams (Graham Nash)
19 I Used to Be a King (Graham Nash)
20 talk (Graham Nash)
21 Military Madness (Graham Nash)
22 Cathedral (Graham Nash)
23 talk (Graham Nash)
24 Our House (Graham Nash)
25 talk (Graham Nash)
26 Teach Your Children (Graham Nash)
27 Try to Find Me (Graham Nash)

NOTE: I've removed the download link due to a copyright issue. Sorry about that.

The cover photo comes from a CSN concert in St. Paul, Minnesota, in June 1990. I couldn't resist using a Japanese styled font, since the concert took place in Japan.