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[FOLK] A consummate storyteller with a career spanning over 50 years, Graham Nash is best known as the high end of Crosby, Stills & Nash harmony-driven sound. Prior to his tenure there, he was in The Hollies; both acts have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. As has been pointed out many times, the initial grouping of Crosby, Stills & Nash lasted only twenty months, and that includes the Deja-Vu album with Neil Young. But the impact from the two studio records made during that time is remarkable, leaving an indelible stamp on our culture. The British-born Nash, now 75, took up with Crosby for a trio of 1970s albums, and the pair reunited with Stills for CSN in 1977 and Daylight Again in 1982. When Crosby was released from jail in the mid-1980s, a changed, sober man, the trio began a regular touring regimen that continued for nearly 30 more years. Alongside, Nash became an activist — something that’s always been reflected in his songwriting — working to spread awareness about non-nuclear energy sources, and has also been known to show his very intimate photographic portraits, now compiled in a book called Eye to Eye. His memoir, Wild Tales, was a New York Times best seller. Nash’s visit to the Asbury Hall on Sunday, October 1, is in support of last year’s This Path Tonight — written and released in the wake of the dissolution of his 38-year marriage and his very public split from ever again working with Crosby. It’s a dark record, a reflection of frightening times and a reluctant acceptance of growing old. NPR’s Jim Allen surmised it well: ” This Path Tonight is occupied with mortality, as a man in his mid-70s looks around and starts asking himself hard questions… [it’s] the sound of someone facing his place on the planet head-on, doing his best to figure it all out as he goes along.”