


Rounding out the live band are two longtime musical associates of Raymond from San Bernardino, bassist Adam Ford and drummer Steve DiStanislao. His wife, Jan Dance, provided Variety with a statement confirming the information. As a musician in the 1960s, he was among the most significant. Ethan had been an early musical influence on his younger brother Crosby had little to say about the loss.Ĭrosby’s plans call for several months of touring with C.P.R., starting with the two Orange County shows. David Crosby, an 81-year-old singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known for his work with The Byrds and the supergroup Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, has died. Gottlieb said Crosby seems to have taken in stride some countervailing sad news: last November, Crosby’s older brother, Ethan, left a suicide note in his rural cabin in Siskiyou County in Northern California and apparently walked off into a wintry wilderness to die his remains were identified last week.
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“It was this escalating joy of discovery.” David Crosby’s 10 Best Songs, With Crosby, Stills & Nash, The Byrds, Solo & Beyond. David Crosby: 20 Essential Songs by the Folk-Rock Legend The golden-voiced pioneer and true American original leaves behind a singular catalog full of gorgeous music By Jonathan Bernstein. Carl Gottlieb, a friend of Crosby since 1964 and co-author of his 1988 memoir, “Long Time Gone,” said the amazing string of experiences Crosby has had in recent years-being saved by a liver transplant, fathering a child, befriending and playing music with a previously missing grown one and getting to be a grandfather-was like winning the lottery.
