Crosby, Stills & Nash released Daylight Again

Daylight Again Crosby, Stills & Nash

Released: June 21, 1982 Peak: 8 US, -- UK, 30 CN, 46 AU Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): 1.85 US, 4.49 EAS Genre: folk rock/classic rock

Tracks: Click on a song title for more details. Turn Your Back on Love [4:51] Wasted on the Way [2:52] Southern Cross [4:41] Into the Darkness [3:23] Delta [4:15] Since I Met You [3:12] Too Much Love to Hide [3:58] Song for Susan [3:08] You Are Alive [3:04] Might As Well Have a Good Time [4:28] Daylight Again / Find the Cost of Freedom [2:36] Total Running Time: 39:50 The Players: David Crosby (vocals, guitar) Stephen Stills (vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards, organ, piano, percussion) Graham Nash (vocals, guitar)

Rating: 3.562 out of 5.00 (average of 13 ratings)

About the Album Although Crosby, Stills & Nash first worked together in 1968, this was only their fourth studio album. Like its predecessors, it was a top-10 platinum seller. It landed a top-10 hit (“Wasted on the Way”) and top-20 hit (“Southern Cross”) on the Billboard Hot 100. A third single, “Too Much Love to Hide,” stalled at #69. Stills-Nash In the early ‘80s, David Crosby “was descending into a self-induced state of perpetual drug dependency” AM so Stephen Stills and Graham Nash started making recordings in 1980 and 1981 for what was to be a Stills-Nash project. Atlantic Records executives, however, were only interested in a full-fledged reunion of Crosby, Stills & Nash. Eventually Stills & Nash relented and invited Crosby to participate, WK “although arguably in name only.” AM “Despite that obvious setback, the other two primary namesakes supply some genuine and uniformly excellent material to the proceedings.” AM Most of the recordings featured additional voices, including Art Garfunkel, WK Timothy B. Schmit of the Eagles and Mike Finnigan, who had worked with CSN before. AM Stills and Nash did add their vocals to two of Crosby’s songs – “Delta” and “Might As Well Have a Good Time.” WK Notes A 2006 reissue added four bonus tracks. The Songs Here’s a breakdown of each of the individual songs.

Turn Your Back on Love Crosby, Stills & Nash

Writer(s): Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, Michael Stergis Released: Daylight Again (1982) Peak: -- Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 1.82 streaming About the Song: “’Turn Your Back on Love,’ as well as ‘Too Much Love to Hide’ and ‘Since I Met You’ are all up-tempo, full-throttle rockers co-composed by Stills, and include some of the guitarist's most blistering fretwork under the CSN moniker.” AM

Wasted on the Way Crosby, Stills & Nash

Writer(s): Graham Nash Released: June 1982 (single), Daylight Again (1982), CSN (box set, 1991), Carry On (compilation, 1991), Greatest Hits (compilation, 2005) B-Side: “Delta” First Charted: June 25, 1982 Peak: 9 BB, 8 CB, 4 GR, 2 RR, 2 AC, 87 CW, 9 AR, 96 AU, 7 DW Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 20.55 streaming About the Song: “Wasted on the Way” was “about the time the group spent in squabbles and diversions rather than concentrating on their music.” WK Graham Nash said, “My point…is just that. We have wasted an enormous amount of time on petty issues that should never have kept us from making music.” LN

Southern Cross Crosby, Stills & Nash

Writer(s): Stephen Stills, Richard Curtis, Michael Curtis Released: September 1982 (single), Daylight Again (1982), CSN (box set, 1991), Carry On (compilation, 1991), Greatest Hits (compilation, 2005) B-Side: “Into the Darkness” First Charted: July 10, 1982 Peak: 18 BB, 18 CB, 4 GR, 7 RR, 6 AC, 39 AR, 5 DF Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): 1.0 radio, -- video, 138.64 streaming About the Song: “Southern Cross” was a “partial rewrite of a song by brothers Richard and Michael Curtis.” WK Stephen Stills said they “brought me a wonderful song called ‘Seven League Boots,’ but it drifted around too much. I re-wrote a new set of words and added a different chorus, a story about a long boat trip I took after my divorce. It’s about using the power of the universe to heal your wounds. Once again I was given somebody’s gem and cut and polished it.” LN As the band’s first album in the video age, they did a video for “Southern Cross” featuring “one of their favorite metaphors, a sailing vessel. It received a fair amount of rotation on MTV in 1982 and 1983, and helped to propel the album's sales.” WK

Into the Darkness Crosby, Stills & Nash

Writer(s): Graham Nash Released: September 1982 (B-side of “Southern Cross”), Daylight Again (1982) Peak: -- Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 0.89 streaming

Delta Crosby, Stills & Nash

Writer(s): David Crosby Released: June 1982 (B-side of “Wasted on the Way”), Daylight Again (1982), CSN (box set, 1991), Greatest Hits (compilation, 2005) Peak: -- Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 2.52 streaming About the Song: Crosby’s “hauntingly lyrical ‘Delta’ stands as one of his finest contributions.” AM He said, “It was the last complete song I’d written until I kicked drugs in prison several years later and my songwriting came back to me. I was the child crazy for the deep. I had pieces of the tune in my head and one day I ran into Jackson Browne in Santa Barbara. He took me over to Warren Zevon’s place and got me to sit down at the piano and work at the song. I wanted to smoke the pipe, I kept saying, ‘Just gimme a minute, just gimme a minute,’ but Jackson kept insisting I stay at the piano and finish the song. Thanks, Jackson.” LN

Since I Met You Crosby, Stills & Nash

Writer(s): Stephen Stills, Michael Stergis Released: Daylight Again (1982) Peak: -- Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 0.48 streaming About the Song: “’Turn Your Back on Love,’ as well as ‘Too Much Love to Hide’ and ‘Since I Met You’ are all up-tempo, full-throttle rockers co-composed by Stills, and include some of the guitarist's most blistering fretwork under the CSN moniker.” AM

Too Much Love to Hide Crosby, Stills & Nash

Writer(s): Stephen Stills, Gerry Tolman Released: January 1983 (single), Daylight Again (1982) Peak: -- First Charted: 69 BB, 81 CB, 46 AR Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 1.08 streaming About the Song: “’Turn Your Back on Love,’ as well as ‘Too Much Love to Hide’ and ‘Since I Met You’ are all up-tempo, full-throttle rockers co-composed by Stills, and include some of the guitarist's most blistering fretwork under the CSN moniker.” AM

Song for Susan Crosby, Stills & Nash

Writer(s): Graham Nash Released: Daylight Again (1982) Peak: -- Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 0.91 streaming About the Song: One of the album’s “thoroughly affective ballads” AM was “Song for Susan,” which Nash wrote for his spouse. AM

You Are Alive Crosby, Stills & Nash

Writer(s): Stephen Stills, Michael Stergis Released: Daylight Again (1982) Peak: -- Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 0.51 streaming About the Song: “Song for Susan” and “the equally emotive ‘You Are Alive’” AMG were two of the “thoroughly affective ballads” AM from Daylight Again.

Might As Well Have a Good Time Crosby, Stills & Nash

Writer(s): Judy Henske, Craig Doerge Released: Daylight Again (1982) Peak: 11 DF Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 0.54 streaming

Daylight Again/ Find the Cost of Freedom Crosby, Stills & Nash

Writer(s): Stephen Stills Released: Daylight Again (1982), CSN (box set, 1991), Greatest Hits (compilation, 2005) Peak: -- Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, -- streaming About the Song: The title cut “evolved out of Stills’ guitar-picking to accompany on-stage stories regarding the South in the Civil War,” WK segueing into ‘Find the Cost of Freedom,’ which was first released in 1970 as the B-side of “Ohio.” According to Stills, “‘Daylight Again’ was actually a precursor to ‘Find the Cost of Freedom,’ but for years all I had was the tune and the first line ‘Daylight again / Following me to bed ...’ I was out on tour and we’d done four nights running. I was in Williamsburg, Virginia, and burnt out and dead tired. At the end of the concert I began to play the song. I didn’t have any words, but I continued to play. I closed my eyes and went into a trance and saw a movie. It was a talking dream where I went back 112 years, to the Civil War. The lyrics just flowed through me like an automatic poem. I sang them as they came into my head and a whole story unfolded. When the concert was over I rushed backstage and madly tried to reconstruct the lyrics. It’s a war song, not just a civil war song. We lost that war, too: we still have racism, don’t we?” LN

Resources/References: AM AllMusic.com review by Lindsay Planer LN liner notes from CSN box set WK Wikipedia Related DMDB Pages: First posted 3/21/2026.