includes several straightforward love songs amidst hard topical jabs such as “Golden Idols” and “Stars and Stripes.” “I’m still here, writing,” says Nash, 81, who co-producedwith his touring keyboardist Todd Caldwell. “I’m still trying to figure out what the world is about, what the climate change is about, what the political scene is about throughout the world, and the rise of the right wing. I’m just gonna keep doing what I do. I write. I make records. It’s simple.
“Basically, it’s about my delight with the music that we made all these years and dissatisfaction because we could’ve done more,” Nash explains. How so? “More songs — more great songs,” he notes. Nash, of course, was famously estranged from Crosby, his closest musical compatriot in recent years, at odds over myriad personal and some business issues.
“We were getting together toward the end of his life,” Nash says. “We were emailing each other, and he left me a great voicemail about that he wanted to apologize for stuff that he’d said about me and stuff he’d said about Neil and Daryl . And I set up a time we could FaceTime, so we could see each other, for two o’clock my time on the east coast, so it was 11 o’clock his time in California and he never called, and then he was gone.
“It’s all sad, but I choose to only try to remember the good stuff, the good times we had, the good music that we made, ’cause the rest is just sh-tty, silly teenage stuff.” He’ll pay tribute to Crosby with two planned archival releases, one a compilation of others’ songs on which the two of them were guests and the other a recording from a 2011 concert in Padua, Italy that Nash says “knocks me on my ass.”has other vestiges of Nash’s past as well as his present.