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James Raymond was adopted at birth and never knew his famous father, David Crosby of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, until a hospital bedside led to a father-son bond and a band with his Rock & Roll Hall of Fame dad. James takes us from his musical childhood in Southern California’s Inland Empire to the day he learned who his birth parents were, and what happened when he finally met them. But James had music in his blood long before he met Crosby and he developed a successful music career of his own.
That story is just as good.
James started his touring career with jazz saxophonist Ronnie Laws a connection that led to a career journey in television, Nickelodeon, a CBS show and eventually led to meeting his wife, Stacia. Find out how the paths converged to his own successful career as a pianist.
Then came David Crosby and a band, CPR (Crosby, Pevar & Raymond) plus several albums. What happens when a father and son reconnect and discover they can really make music together? We get into the touring, the recording, and all the new music they wrote.
We also talk about James’s musical hero, Michael McDonald. Find out what it was like when James finally got to work with him.
There’s another fun Relatively Famous connection: James Raymond and Kiki Ebsen, daughter of Buddy Ebsen. How did those two musical paths cross?
And if music hadn’t been the calling, what else might James have done? A meter reader? A forestry firefighter? A race car driver? You’ll have to listen to James tell that story.
It’s a great conversation about music, family, identity, finding your own path, and discovering a connection that would ultimately become one of the most important creative relationships of his life.
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