{"id":690248,"date":"2026-01-12T03:46:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T03:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/690248\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T03:46:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T03:46:18","slug":"the-musician-graham-nash-called-the-greatest-singer-we-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/690248\/","title":{"rendered":"The musician Graham Nash called the greatest singer we have"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img width=\"1140\" height=\"855\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Graham-Nash-Singer-2014-Far-Out-Magazine-1140x855.jpg\" class=\"attachment-single-feature size-single-feature wp-post-image\" alt=\"Graham Nash - Singer - 2014\" layout=\"fill\"  style=\"object-position: 50% 50%\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Credits: Far Out \/ Marsha Miller \/ LBJ Library)<\/p>\n<p> Sun 11 January 2026 15:00, UK <\/p>\n<p>As quality cameras became increasingly affordable and 24-hour film processing shops popped up in every town, the age of candid <a href=\"http:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/tags\/photography\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">photography<\/a> really took off in the 1960s and \u201870s. <\/p>\n<p>For most people, the thousands of pictures they took of their pals and coworkers in that era gradually ended up stuffed into shoeboxes or dusty photo albums, but for Graham Nash, they became a widely published coffee table book.<\/p>\n<p>Call it celebrity privilege if you will, but no matter how you feel about Nash\u2019s skills behind the lens, there\u2019s no denying that the subject matter of his candid photography was a tad more interesting than your average dark room enthusiast for his circle of friends and co-workers, after all, included many of the all-time legends of rock n\u2019 roll: Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Mama Cass, Bob Dylan, David Crosby, Stephen Stills, so on. Thus, his collection of unposed portraits of these artists, in their primes, as seen with their guards down, makes for quite a unique project.<\/p>\n<p>Nash was promoting his photo book, titled A Life in Focus: The Photography of Graham Nash, throughout 2021, and chatted with<a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/graham-nash-interview-2021-photo-book\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"> Ultimate Classic Rock<\/a> about some of the images therein, which included an interesting insight into the effort required to capture a shot of Neil Young versus the other members of CSNY.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s more difficult shooting pictures of Neil than it is David or Stephen,\u201d Nash said, \u201cbecause David and Stephen are my friends. <a href=\"https:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/crosby-stills-nash-and-young-album-graham-nash-neil-young-ruined\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Neil is my friend, obviously<\/a>\u2014I\u2019ve been making music with him for about 50 years. But he\u2019s less approachable than David or Stephen. He\u2019s in his own world, and I love the fact that he\u2019s completely dedicated to the muse of music\u2026\u00a0I felt that Neil knew that I\u2019d taken interesting shots of him, and he was hemming and hawing, so I stopped taking pictures, but I\u2019d already shot four or five that I knew would be alright.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Talking about another shot of his former girlfriend, Joni Mitchell, Nash rather brashly recalled how \u201cwe used to light up the room when we walked in, all those great things about a blooming romance\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>One of the standout photos from his book was actually one that hadn\u2019t survived in pristine condition, which was a photo of Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash together on stage in 1969, salvaged from a damaged negative.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder normal circumstances, you wouldn\u2019t show a damaged negative,\u201d Nash explained, \u201cBut in this case, the damage to the negative added to the mystery of the moment, I believe. And those two guys really liked each other. It\u2019s Bob Dylan, for fuck\u2019s sake! To me, the greatest writer and singer of songs that we have in this country. To see his appreciation of Johnny Cash, they really liked each other. I\u2019ve seen a couple of letters between them that are incredibly, beautifully friendly. It wasn\u2019t like, \u2018That\u2019s Bob Dylan and that\u2019s Johnny Cash\u2019. No. They were in the same business, the same line of work. They loved each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nash is hardly the first musician to bow to Dylan as his <a href=\"https:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/one-songwriter-graham-nash-thinks-no-one-comes-close-to\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">generation\u2019s finest songwriter<\/a>, but including the \u201csinger of songs\u201d bit is maybe a little surprising, especially when you factor in the former\u2019s own healthy ego about CSN\u2019s magical voices. Still, it\u2019s a safe assumption that without Bob, the musical directions of Nash, Crosby, Stills, Young, and Mitchell would have been dramatically different, and so, credit is given where it\u2019s due; through Graham Nash\u2019s lens, the Laurel Canyon sound owed a great deal to Bob Dylan.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Related Topics<\/p>\n<p>The Far Out Bob Dylan Newsletter<\/p>\n<p>All the latest stories about Bob Dylan from the independent voice of culture.<br \/>Straight to your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Credits: Far Out \/ Marsha Miller \/ LBJ Library) Sun 11 January 2026 15:00, UK As quality cameras&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3936],"tags":[39538,40356,77,40357,269,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-690248","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-bob-dylan","9":"tag-csny","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-graham-nash","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115880079074959493","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}