David Crosby, courtesy Anna Webber. Iconic ’60s singer-songwriter and guitarist David Crosby has died, his family announced Thursday. The cofounder of The Byrds and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young was 81. A cause of death was not announced. “It is with great sadness after a long illness, that our…

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.…