After the live re-reading of the early solo work, Graham Nash presents himself with new songs seven years after “This Path Tonight” and a mere sixty after “(Ain’t That) Just Like Me”. There are twelve, plus a short “Theme From Pastoral”, all arranged to the point, the gratefully jubilant title track, the undisguised remorse of “Love Of Mine”, alone at the piano “In A Dream”. Nash is helpless before the unbroken dance around the “Golden Idols”, he still worries straight-country about the “Stars & Stripes”, before burying rock’n’roll to string staccato (“I Watched It All Come Down”) and Buddy Holly pays homage.
Some end up at 81 where they started in their late 20s
And of course, sometimes it gets very flat (“Stand Up”). But there is something touching, comforting, albeit disturbingly naïve, when, for example, in “It Feels Like Home” the Graham Nash who once sang “Our House” and all the other songs that convey the belief in the better can still be recognized so well in people never wanted to give up. “A Better Life” was called “Better Days” on the ’71 solo debut. Some end up at 81 where they started in their late 20s.
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