“Our House” by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young

"Our House" is Graham Nash's cozy valentine to domestic life, tucked onto Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young's Déjà vu in 1970. He wrote it while living with Joni Mitchell in Laurel Canyon, back when he was recording both the Crosby, Stills & Nash album and this one. The spark was nothing grander than breakfast out and a cheap vase from a Ventura Boulevard antiques shop; Nash turned small scenes like that, Mitchell bringing in flowers from the yard, into a song at her piano inside an hour.

That ordinariness is the whole charm. Nash plays piano and harpsichord, Greg Reeves and Dallas Taylor hold down bass and drums, and Crosby, Stills and Nash wrap their voices together like a warm blanket. All four members share the production credit, and the single climbed to No. 30 on the Hot 100.

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