CSN Part Company With Label / Producer
Band get frustrated at lack of progress
Crosby, Stills & Nash have parted company with Rick Rubin and their label Columbia.
The Daily Express reports that the trio have decided to move on from their producer, nearly two years after they announced their long awaited covers album.
A statement from CSN reads, "We have amicably parted ways with both Rick Rubin and Columbia."
No details about the split have been given, although insiders suggest Nash, David Crosby and Stephen Stills were growing tired of waiting for Rubin to complete other projects, like Kid Rock's new album, and concentrate on them.
Perhaps the move to look for pastures new isn’t that surprising, though, after Graham Nash’s hinted last summer that all wasn’t well with the recording sessions. "We've recorded about four things and we're still not 100 percent happy with them, so we'll try and re-record them when we get into the studio."
"We did about three days with Rick Rubin to try and feel each other out and see if we enjoyed working with each other. We cut four things. . . CSN and I don't think Rick thinks that we have the take of any one of them. So it was three days in Shangri-La studios and another studio in Hollywood to try and feel out what was going on. Y'know, whether we liked this guy, or whether he likes us, or whether we can fit together musically and stuff. But we're seriously going to start on Monday".
The covers project was first mooted in 2008 and is likely to feature songs by the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Jackson Browne and the Grateful Dead.