Stephen Stills, David Crosby, Neil Young and Graham Nash. Photo by Henry Diltz/Corbis. David Crosby lived to be 81, three decades into his second liver. That alone is worth celebrating. That he left us so much beautiful music is an incredible legacy. For those of us who are fans,…

The singular career of folksinger David Crosby is, by and large, defined by his hippie coterie. Coming up and partying with many of the biggest names in the West Coast folk scene—such as Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Grace Slick, and Jerry Garcia, to name a few—Crosby seemed to belong.…