Credit: Amy GranthamGraham Nash‘s most recent studio album, This Path Tonight, was released in April 2016, and the folk-rock legend tells ABC Radio that he expects to be finished with a follow-up to the record in the not-too-distant future.
Nash tells ABC Radio that his next album will likely feature a number of songs written at the same time as the material on This Path Tonight. That project came together while he was divorcing his wife of 38 years and starting a romance with a much younger woman, photographer Amy Grantham.
“[My guitarist] Shane [Fontayne] and I, in that emotional time in the back of the bus…on tour, wrote 20 songs,” Graham explains. “We recorded the 20 songs in eight days, we used 13 of the 20 [on This Path Tonight]…So we have seven left that we really like.”
The 76-year-old Rock & Roll Hall of Famer adds that he’s “continuing to write” new tunes, revealing that one of his recent songs is one he penned for Grantham “that I think people are gonna love.”
Nash also says Fontayne, who produced This Path Tonight, and possibly his touring keyboardist, Todd Caldwell, may contribute some ideas to the new album.
Reflecting on how he’s been able to his memorable catalog of songs, Nash admits, “I don’t have a clue. I know that I have to feel something in my heart and soul before I start to write about something, but once I get a feeling — and once I get a title maybe — I’m off and running writing.”
Graham kicks off a 2019 U.S. solo trek on March 6 in Red Bank, New Jersey.
Here are the confirmed tour dates:
3/6 — Red Bank, NJ, Count Basie Theatre
3/8 — Collingswood, NJ, Scottish Rite Auditorium
3/9 — Newport News, VA, Ferguson Concert Hall
3/10 — Easton, MD, Avalon Theatre
3/12 — Owings Mills, MD, Gordon Center for Performing Arts
3/13 — Harrisburg, PA, Whitaker Center
3/15 — Munhall, PA, Carnegie of Homestead Music Hall
3/16 — Akron, OH, Akron Civic Theatre
3/17 — Chicago, IL, Athenaeum Theatre
3/20 — Royal Oak, MI, Royal Oak Music Theatre
3/22 — Carmel, IN, The Palladium at the Center for the Performing Arts
3/23 — Chattanooga, TN, Walker Theatre
3/25 — Vienna, VA, The Barns at Wolf Trap
3/27 — Vienna, VA, The Barns at Wolf Trap
3/28 — Vienna, VA, The Barns at Wolf Trap
3/29 — Morgantown, WV, West Virginia University Creative Arts Center
3/31 — Wilmington, DE, The Queen
4/2 — Hopewell, VA, Beacon Theatre
4/3 — Raleigh, NC, Fletcher Opera Theatre
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