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Album Review: Be Yourself – A Tribute to Graham Nash’s “Songs for Beginners”

Album Review: Be Yourself – A Tribute to Graham Nash’s “Songs for Beginners” In 1971, Joni Mitchell broke Graham Nash’s heart. The two had been an item since ’68, living an idyllic artists’ life that inspired Nash to write the song “Our House” — the blissful, two-cats-in-the-yard scenario was all about Joni. But the ever elusive and independent Mitchell couldn’t stick around, and she left Nash in the same year that Crosby, Stills, and Nash split up, however temporarily. These are the circumstances that led Nash to write his first solo album, Songs For Beginners . Heartbreakingly honest and revealing, the album was as [...]