David Crosby

David Crosby belongs to a generation of musicians for whom rock & roll was of the youth, by
the youth and for the youth. Today, as rock enters its fifth decade and many of its most
celebrated voices do the same, the notion that an artist should blaze briefly and then quit
before the gray sets in has been dismissed as the specious myth it always was. Sadly,
though, fantasies don't die as easily. For all the heartening stories of rockers wh... More >

Crosby adds new meaning to the word "survivor"--something on the order of "If you can't kill the motherf*cker, at least make sure he doesn't breed"--and until VH-1 got on the revolting "Heroes" video, I'd hoped never to sample this make-work project for his rich, underemployed friends. Oh well. The only thing that could render it more self-congratulatory would be a CD bonus cover of Jefferson Black Hole's "We Built This City." (Grade: C-)