David Crosby will release a new album,
For Free, on July 23. The singer-songwriter previewed the project with lead single River Rise, featuring Michael McDonald.
The Doobie Brothers singer adds his distinctive voice to the breezy folk-rock track, which gently builds to a climactic guitar solo. McDonald harmonizes with Crosby on the chorus, singing, Let the river rise, open up the skies / Not gonna wash away.
You can hear the song below.
Crosby s son James Raymond, a multi-instrumentalist who produced the record, cowrote the tune with Crosby and McDonald. In a statement, Raymond said that River Rise emerged from wanting to write something very evocative of California, but almost with a country-song perspective something that speaks to the empowerment of the everyman or everywoman.
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