Daylight Again

The album began as a Stills and Nash project, recorded in 1980 and 1981 with Art Garfunkel, Timothy B. Schmit and Mike Finnigan singing where Crosby might have been. Atlantic held out for a Crosby, Stills & Nash record, so Stills and Nash paid for the sessions themselves until Crosby was invited at the last minute. He brought two tracks, Delta and Might as Well Have a Good Time. Nash wrote the biggest hit, Wasted on the Way, about the time the group had spent in squabbles and diversions instead of on their music. Southern Cross was Stills's partial rewrite of a song by brothers Richard and Michael Curtis. The title track grew out of Stills's guitar picking under stage stories about the South in the Civil War, and runs into Find the Cost of Freedom.

It was the band's first album in the video age, and the Southern Cross video, with its sailing vessel, received a fair amount of rotation on MTV in 1982 and 1983. The album peaked at number eight on the Billboard 200 and was certified platinum. Wasted on the Way reached number nine, Southern Cross 18 and Too Much Love to Hide 69.