In an interview with The Wall Street journal, legendary singer-songwriter David Crosby revealed plans for the release of his fifth studio album, titled Lighthouse, due out October 21st. In anticipation of the album, the Crosby, Stills, & Nash member has shared the track “Things We Do For Love” (listen below). Crosby co-wrote much of the material with Snarky Puppy bassist Michael League.
Crosby had this to say about the talented musician, “He’s an immensely talented musician. He was very sneaky, too. He didn’t tell me he could play lead guitar. He didn’t tell me he could sing. And he never told me he could write words. But when we sat down at my house, we wrote three songs in three days. I think the only person in my life that has been that good at writing and co-working with [me] is my son James. I love writing with someone else because the other guy always thinks of something you didn’t.”
Lighthouse comes 45 years after his first solo album If I Could Only Remember My Name. The singer laments about that time period, and how some of his best friends and incredible musicians helped create that album:
“I had a bunch of songs and I had only used two of them on [Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young’s] “Deja Vu,” because there were four writers. The joy of it was, I was having a very hard time emotionally. My girlfriend had gotten killed in a car wreck. I was pretty damaged from it. So I stayed in the studio. It was the only safe place I had. And my friends came. Notably, [Jerry] Garcia came just about every night. And [Phil]Lesh, and [Bill]Kreutzmann and other guys from the Dead, and Grace [Slick] and Paul [Kanter] from Jefferson Airplane, some guys from Santana and Quicksilver [Messenger Service] and other San Francisco bands. Of course Gram [Parsons] and Joni [Mitchell] and other friends of mine. They gathered around and helped me make that record in the most organic and loving way. It pretty much saved my sanity. I had something to do and somebody to do it with. It was a lifting force in a pretty tough spot.”
Take a listen to “Things We Do For Love”:
Lighthouse Tracklisting:
1. “Things We Do For Love”
2. “The Us Below”
3. “Drive Out to the Desert”
4. “Look in Their Eyes”
5. “Somebody Other Than You”
6. “The City”
7. “Paint You a Picture”
8. “What Makes It So”
9. “By the Light of Common Day”