David Crosby - Definition and Overview

David Van Cortland Crosby (born August 14, 1941 in Los Angeles, California) is a guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He is the son of Floyd Crosby, an Academy Award winning cinematographer.

He was an original member of The Byrds and Crosby Stills & Nash (later Crosby Stills Nash & Young). He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for his work in the Byrds and Crosby Stills and Nash.

In 1985, he served a year in jail in Texas after having been convicted for a drug-related offence a few years earlier. He was set free after a higher court overturned his conviction on appeal. Later, he was the recipient of a highly publicized liver transplant. On March 6, 2004 he was arrested for drug possession and weapons offences in New York City.

In 2004, Crosby left behind a piece of luggage when checking out of a New York hotel room. A hotel employee searched the bag to try to find some identification, and found a quantity of marijuana, a 45-caliber handgun and a knife. Crosby was arrested when he went back to the hotel to pick up his property. He was charged with illegal possession of a hunting knife, illegal possession of a handgun and ammunition, and possession of marijuana.

He donated sperm to fellow musician Melissa Etheridge so that she and her lesbian partner could have a baby.

Solo discography of David Crosby:

• 1971 If I Could Only Remember My Name
• 1989 Oh Yes I Can
• 1993 Thousand Roads
• 1995 It's All Coming Back To Me Now... (live)
• 1996 King Biscuit Flower Hour (live)
• 2000 Live

With Graham Nash

1972 Graham Nash/David Crosby (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=10:4knsa9ygb23a)

1975 Crosby-Nash live (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=10:kud0yl3jxpzb)

1975 Wind on the Water (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=10:25rz28oc051a)

1976 Whistling Down the Wire (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=10:9wc8b5p4tsqh)

1977 Live (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=10:zw5h8q9tbtc4)

1998 Another Stoney Evening (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=10:uk9ks32ia3vg)

2001 Bittersweet (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=10:4fjx7ia3g7or)

2001 Carry Me (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=10:q9r9keztsq7b)

2004 Crosby Nash (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=10:8tkcu3xsanxk)