Earth & Sky (album)
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{{Infobox album
| name = Earth & Sky
| type = Studio album
| artist = Graham Nash
| cover = earthskiesgn.jpg
| alt =
| released = 15 February 1980
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio = Britannia Studios (Los Angeles, California); Sound Labs (Hollywood, California); Devonshire Studios (Burbank, California): Rudy Records and Wally Heider Studios (San Francisco, California).
| length = 35:24
| label = Capitol
| producer = Graham Nash, Stanley Johnston
| prev_title = Wild Tales
| prev_year = 1974
| next_title = Innocent Eyes
| next_year = 1986
}}
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r45338|first=Lindsay|last=Planer}}
| rev2 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide
| rev2Score = {{rating|2|5}}{{cite book |title=The Rolling Stone Album Guide |date=1992 |publisher=Random House |page=496}}
}}
Earth & Sky is the third solo studio album by British singer-songwriter Graham Nash. It was released in February 1980 on Capitol Records.
Track listing
All songs written by Graham Nash, except where noted.
{{Track listing|
| headline = Side one
| title1 = Earth & Sky
| length1 = 3:35
| title2 = Love Has Come
| length2 = 3:27
| title3 = Out on the Island
| length3 = 4:20
| title4 = Skychild
| length4 = 3:55
| title5 = Helicopter Song
| length5 = 2:47
}}
{{Track listing
| headline = Side two
| title1 = Barrel of Pain
| length1 = 5:16
| title2 = TV Guide
| writer2 = Nash, Joe Vitale
| length2 = 1:54
| title3 = It's All Right
| length3 = 3:14
| title4 = Magical Child
| length4 = 3:42
| title5 = In the 80's
| length5 = 3:04
}}
Personnel
= Additional Personnel =
- David Lindley – acoustic guitar (10); rhythm guitar (1); lead guitar (4, 6); Hawaiian guitar (3)
- Stephen Stills – rhythm guitar (5)
- Joe Walsh – rhythm guitar (1); lead guitar (1, 5)
- David Crosby – acoustic guitar (3); backing vocals (2, 5)
- Joel Bernstein – acoustic guitar (2, 8), backing vocals (3)
- Steve Lukather – lead guitar (2)
- Danny Kortchmar – acoustic guitar (8, 10); rhythm guitar (2, 5); guitar solo (6)
- John Brennan – rhythm guitar (2)
- Craig Doerge – piano (1, 5, 8–10), electric piano (2, 3, 7, 8), organ (6, 8, 10), string arrangements (5), string writing (9)
- Joe Vitale – piano (7); organ (4); synthesizers (7); drums (1, 5, 6, 10); flute (1); timpani (5); string arrangements (7)
- Tim Drummond – bass guitar (1–4, 6–8, 10), six-string bass guitar (1, 10)
- George Perry – bass guitar (5)
- Russ Kunkel – drums (2–4, 6–8); percussion (1 - 3)
- Joe Lala – percussion (5)
- Jackson Nash – harmonica (9)
- Cece Bullard – backing vocals (1)
- Jackson Browne – backing vocals (2)
- Armando Hurley – backing vocals (2)
- Nicolette Larson – backing vocals (2)
- Gloria Coleman – backing vocals (3, 4, 6, 8, 10)
- Brenda Eager – backing vocals (3, 4, 6, 8, 10)
- Cleo Kennedy – backing vocals (3, 4, 6, 8, 10)
- Leah Kunkel – backing vocals (5)
- Tim Barr – strings (5, 7)
- Debra Pearson – strings (5)
- Daniel Smith – strings (5, 7)
- Kevan Torfeh – strings (5, 7, 9)
- Deborah Yamak – strings (5, 7)
- Rhonni Hallman – strings (7)
- Jean Hugo – strings (7)
- Peter Kent – strings (7)
- Sid Page – strings (7, 9)
- Debra Price – strings (7)
- Julie Rosenfeld – strings (7)
- Carol Shive – strings (7)
- Vicki Sylvester – strings (7)
- Margaret Wooten – strings (7)
- Ruth Kahn – strings (9)
- Wayne Goodwin – string arrangements (5, 9), orchestration (7), conductor (5, 7), string writing (9), string director (9)
- Glen Rosecrans – music preparation (5, 7, 9)
= Production Personnel =
- Graham Nash – producer
- Stanley Johnston – producer, engineer
- Howard Albert – engineer
- Ron Albert – engineer
- Steve Gursky – engineer
- Jerry Hudgins – engineer
- Wally Traugott – mastering
- Joel Bernstein – art direction, photography
- Gary Burden – art direction
- Color Service, Inc. – artwork
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References
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