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David Crosby Call Him Croz By Bruce Pilato T FEBRUARY 2014 Jan 31 Weber Grill Lombard 6-9pm www.webergrillrestaurant.com 1 Tap House Grill Highwood 9-11pm www.taphousegrills.com 8 McGonigal's Barrington 9pm www.mcgonigalspub.com 14 Scapa Clarendon Hills 7:30-11:30pm www.scapaitaliankitchen.com Cirrus Falcon voted Chicagoland's "Best Acoustic Band" www.cirrusfalcon.com www.facebook.com/cirrusfalcon Cirrus Falcon CDs are available at all shows and selected record stores. Call for booking info - 847- 401- 8126 or [email protected] 15 Twin Rails Pub Minooka 7pm 21 Quigley's Oak Lawn 10pm-1am www.quigleys-irish-pub-southside-nearchicago-oak-lawn-sports-bar.com/ 22 West Suburban Irish Emerald Dinner White Eagle Country Club Naperville 5pm www.wsirish.org/emerald_dinner.htm 28 Winberie's Buffalo Grove 6:30-9:30pm www.selectrestaurants.com he photograph of David Crosby's face that graces the cover of his new solo album, Croz, doesn't lie. It features the legendary rock icon peering off to what appears to be an unknown future, peppered with equal levels of wonderment and apprehension. For David Crosby, it has been a long time gone. Twenty years after the release of his last solo studio album (1993's Thousand Roads), Crosby rebounds with what is arguably his strongest effort outside of the CSNY family of recordings. Mostly co-written and produced by James Raymond (Crosby's long lost son who he re-connected with in the 1990s), Croz serves up a more experimental, jazzier side of David Crosby, effectively blending haunting acoustic ballads with meatier band-driven rock tracks. Croz, with all its different musical sides, is both ethereal and in your face. Now, with a short window of time available before he returns to the road with Stephen Stills and Graham Nash, David Crosby is taking the music of Croz, and a musical retrospective of his entire career, on the road. He stops in Chicago for two nights at City Winery, February 8th and 9th. Accompanying Crosby on the road are James Raymond (keyboards), Shane Fontayne (guitar), Kevin McCormick (bass), Steve DiStanislao (drums, percussion), and Marcus Eaton (guitar). They all appear on Croz, along with guests Wynton Marsalis ("Holding On To Nothing"), Mark Knopfler ("What's Broken"), Leland Sklar ("Find A Heart") and Steve Tavaglione ("Morning Falling," "Find A Heart"). David Crosby sat down recently to talk about the new album and tour, and the five decades that shaped the life and times of this music legend. As he sang in the 1965 Byrds classic: "So you want to be a rock'n'roll star; now listen then, to what I say..." IE: Croz is undeniabl HH]