David Crosby Was Working On New Album When He Died: ‘Shame People Didn’t Get To Hear It’

David Crosby passed away connected Jan. 18 astatine the property of 81, and from what instrumentalist Steve Postell told Variety, it sounds similar his decease came astatine a clip erstwhile the Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young founder was readying his adjacent your – and his adjacent album. “David didn’t deliberation helium was gonna past for years, which helium joked astir each the time. But determination was nary consciousness that we weren’t gonna beryllium capable to bash this amusement and these tours,” said Postell. “We were talking circuit buses and what benignant of venues, and the full squad was each backmost unneurotic again — the roadworthy manager and circuit manager and dependable guys — connected apical of this set we’d enactment together.”

Crosby’s household announced that David died pursuing “a agelong illness,” which Postell told Variety was a “very confusing thing” since “We were rehearsing. We were going retired to dinner.’ Postell said that determination “was not adjacent a distant consciousness that we weren’t astir acceptable to deed the world. And it’s a shame radical didn’t get to perceive it. This was thing else. This was arsenic adjacent to the archetypal happening [Crosby, Stills, and Nash] arsenic we were gonna get. It was precise powerful.”

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“I ne'er got to really beryllium successful the workplace with him erstwhile I was signaling those vocals,” Sarah Jarosz, 1 of the musicians who worked with Crosby connected the album, told Variety, “but helium and James [Raymond, Crosby’s son and chap subordinate of the band] had reached retired to maine astir a period agone saying they were moving connected this caller album, and helium truly wanted maine to sing connected a caller song, ‘Talk Till Dawn.’ It had conscionable been a fewer days since I sent the vocal disconnected [before Crosby died], but the mode James made it look to maine is that helium did get to perceive it earlier helium passed, which is evidently highly affectional for me.”

Jarosz recorded vocal and mandolin parts for Crosby’s adjacent album. “He conscionable wanted to make until the precise end, and that was ever my content of him successful our conversations,” she told Variety. “He was truthful afloat of music, and it ever struck maine because, arsenic a young instrumentalist myself, I deliberation it’s casual to sometimes look astatine idiosyncratic who’s had a agelong beingness and unthinkable vocation and think: How tin they inactive conscionable person that thrust and that occurrence wrong them?”

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Similarly, Jarosz was confused astir the “long illness” portion of Crosby’s decease announcement. But, she shared however David seemed to cognize his clip was coming to an end. “I mean, each clip we talked, helium would call, and I’d beryllium like, ‘How are you doing?’ And he’d beryllium like, ‘Well, I’m dying’ — but jokingly, with a laugh,” she told Variety. “I wasn’t alert if determination was a agelong illness. It was much conscionable similar the hard years of surviving and being 81. It surely came arsenic a shock.”

In May 2022, David told students astatine Golden High School successful Golden, Colorado, that his touring days were over. “I’m excessively aged to bash it anymore. I’m excessively aged to bash it anymore. I don’t person the stamina; I don’t person the strength,” helium said, per Variety. “Being connected a autobus circuit is simply a daunting task. It’s precise hard. It takes it retired of you.”

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