Hear “If You Listen”: David Crosby's new collaborative album released today

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BMGDavid Crosby has just released his latest studio album, Here If You Listen, a collaboration with Michael League of the Grammy-winning jazz collective Snarky Puppy and singers Becca Stevens and Michelle Willis.

The folk-rock legend previously worked with League, Stevens and Willis on his 2016 solo effort, Lighthouse, but all four musicians receive billing on the new record.

Crosby, who split from longtime band mates Graham Nash and Stephen Stills a couple years back after a falling out with Nash, tells Billboard he feels energized working with his new collaborators.

“Michael League is one of the most talented people I’ve ever run into in my life,” says the 77-year-old Rock & Roll Hall of Famer. “Becca [and Michelle] are completely different from each other and both are stunner writers and players…The chemistry was explosive. I have never seen such a creative flow, ever, anywhere.”

He adds, “We wrote a whole record and recorded it in eight days! It was crazy!”

In addition to the new material, Here If You Listen includes a cover of Joni Mitchell‘s “Woodstock,” which David also famously recorded in 1970 with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.

Crosby explains that he, League, Willis and Stevens began performing the song live after he’d come up with a different set of chord changes for the tune; he says audiences loved it.

David notes that they decided to put their “Woodstock” cover on the album even though it “doesn’t really fit with the rest of the new stuff,” because “it just sounds fun.”

The record also features two songs — “1967” and “1974” — that were built around old demos that Crosby recorded in those respective years.

Crosby and his Here If You Listen collaborators kick off a North American tour on November 2 in Seattle.

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