Star Songs: Dark Star (#6)

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Halfway through this countdown of favorites with “star” in the title, and I must give a shoutout to @RasmaSandra for suggesting the theme! Just to prove this is really me and not a hack, here’s today’s song, which doesn’t go with yesterday’s song at all. #6: Dark Star - Crosby, Stills, and Nash No relation to the Grateful Dead “Dark Star” (except in sharing a title). While their first album is considered a staple of classic rock, it is the second Crosby, Stills, and Nash album that holds that special place in my heart. Maybe because I had a lot of time to listen to music at the time, and it was so prevalent on FM rock radio with all the other “sensitive singer/songwriters” that I loved back then. You see, kiddies, back then in the old days, when the DJ said, “Coming up, we have a set with Jackson Browne, Led Zeppelin, Leon Redbone, Joan Armatrading, Little Feat, and CSN,” you couldn’t automatically guess what songs they were going to play. (And yes, Redbone, Armatrading, and Little Feat used to get played on FM rock stations.) The CSN song could have as easily been this one or “Cathedral” (which Graham Nash described as “about my favorite acid trip”) as “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes.” Now? They say CSN and you know what’s coming. But I digress. This song takes me back to a lot of good memories of living in Daytona Beach, and the music was a significant part of those good memories. So enjoy this good memory of mine. Dark Star Written by Stephen Stills Recorded by Crosby, Stills, and Nash From CSN, 1977 Ain’t this song a bust: