Whistling Down the Wire

by Graham Nash, David Crosby, Crosby & Nash

Overview

Maybe it took more than nine months to come up with another batch of first-rate material, or maybe David Crosby and Graham Nash were saving their first-rate material for the next Crosby, Stills & Nash album, but Whistling Down the Wire, their third and final new studio album as a duo, was a distinctly second-rate effort. As usual, Crosby's loosely arranged jazz-blues tunes were offset by Nash's more pop-oriented songs, but this time around neither of them came up with anything memorable. Crosby seemed most comfortable on his "Dancer," an instrumental, while Nash expressed himself in poetic metaphors that were difficult to follow. In "J.B.'s [Jackson Browne's?] Blues," he seemed to have what be considered a potentially critical message to deliver to a friend, but to his wider audience it seemed merely cryptic. Happily, Crosby and Nash bounced back the following year when they reunited with Stephen Stills for CSN. ~ William Ruhlmann

Product Details

Release Date:	01/11/2000
Label:	Mca
UPC:	0008811203221
Rank:	30784

Tracks

1. Spotlight
2. Broken Bird
3. Time After Time
4. Dancer
5. Mutiny
6. J.B.'s Blues
7. Marguerita
8. Taken at All
9. Foolish Man
10. Out of the Darkness

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Crosby & Nash   Primary Artist
Graham Nash   Primary Artist,Guitar,Vocals,Harmonica,Keyboards,Guitar (Acoustic),Guitar (Electric)
David Crosby   Primary Artist,Guitar,Vocals,Guitar (Acoustic)
Laurie Allan   Zither
Ben Keith   Guitar
Carole King   Keyboards
Russ Kunkel   Drums,Percussion,Drums (Snare)
James Taylor   Vocals
David Lindley   Viola,Guitar,Violin,Pedal Steel,Slide Guitar,Guitar (Electric)
Leland Sklar   Bass
Joel Bernstein   Guitar
Tim Drummond   Bass
Danny Kortchmar   Bass,Dobro,Guitar,Guitar (Electric)
Craig Doerge   Organ,Piano,Keyboards,Piano (Electric),Harmonica (Glass)
Sid Sharp   Orchestra Leader
Laura Allen   Zither
Nancy Brown   Handwriting
Craig Kinlers   Guitar
Stan Szelest   Keyboards

Technical Credits

Graham Nash   Composer,Producer,Liner Notes
Erick Labson   Reissue Mastering
Lee Holdridge   String Arrangements
Joel Bernstein   Photography
Mike Ragogna   Reissue Producer
David Crosby   Composer,Producer
Danny Kortchmar   Composer
Stephen Barncard   Engineer,Reissue Producer
Craig Doerge   Composer
Barry Korkin   Editorial Assistant
Don Gooch   Engineer
Vartan   Art Direction
Gary Burden   Design,Art Direction
Junie Osaki   Reissue Design
Beth Stempel   Reissue Coordination
Lesley Foster Barncard   Photography
Steve Silberman   Liner Notes