Vinegar Thrill

Graham Nash knows the war’s not over yet.

INTERVIEW BY COLIN W. SARGENT

W I don’t believe so, or I’d have tried to check out the Bush Mansion. ey aren’t just from Texas, you know!

I did hear from Abbie Ho man, but not Bobby Seale. ere’s a possibility he’s never connected himself with the song.

Fantastic. I’m glad my music seems to have lasted long enough to surface so many times, but it pisses me o that the problems I was hoping to solve keep reappearing.

I’m writing a brand-new studio record that’s all ready to go next year: Golden Idol. It’s about all the Republicans who are falling for the big lie and embracing Trump with all their arms wrapped around him.

Yes, it’s a beautiful melody called “Follow Your Heart.” I lost track of it 15 years ago, picked it up a month and a half ago, and wrote new words for it.

It’s a new single called “Love of Mine.” I don’t know what I’m going to call the album yet.

at was the genius of Stephen Stills—a great rock and roll talent.

Stephen has a Portland connection. Every time we’re in the area, his wife, [the former] Kristen [Hathaway], has the family come over. She makes a fantastic lobster soup.

I’m not so sure that’s about me. at’s about Leonard Cohen. [pause] Stills.

I still believe in what the hippies stood for.

—Graham Nash It’s much more personal. Because I’m now 80, I’m looking back at my life. e opening line to my new record is “I used to think that I could never love again.”

I don’t remember Stephen doing that.

No, Blackpool is very, very di erent. It has a Coney Island vibe. Tourists, lots of hotels, stands selling T-shirts. I was born in the Kimberley Hotel, which is on the Front.

Brighton Rock Worse!

No, it was pretty immediate. Joni didn’t get to play at Woodstock because she was supposed to be on e Dick Cavett Show, one of her rst big opportunities. When we got back from Woodstock, she said she was watching the concert on all three news channels and had written 99 percent of the song. Her version was more purple than ours. Stephen Stills asked her right away if we could record it. “Of course you can do it!”

Who the hell doesn’t like a good lobster sandwich? Come on!

[pause] I believe we did.

pol & Spoon, Aug. 27; Brandi Carlile, Aug. 31; Ghostland, Sep. 3. 956-6000. Vinegar Hill Music Theatre, 53 Old Post Rd., Arundel. Annie Royer, Aug. 7; Wake Up Mama, Aug. 8; The THE BAND Band, Aug. 11; Naturally 7, Aug. 12; Sauce Boss, Aug. 14; The Texas Tenors, Aug. 20. 985-5552.

DANCE

Bates Dance Festival, multiple locations in Lewiston. Virtual & live performances including concerts, an interactive video installation, & experimental screendance, through Aug. 6. Batesdancefestival.org. Maine State Ballet, 348 U.S. Route One, Falmouth. Coppélia, through Aug. 6. 781-3587.

ART

Bayview Gallery, 58 Maine St., Brunswick. Marsha Donahue, through Jul. 30. (800) 244-3007. Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 245 Maine St., Brunswick. Powdered Pigments: Three Centuries of Pastel Drawings, through Aug. 21; Innovation and Resilience Across Three Generations of Wabanaki Basket-Making, through Sep. 18; At First Light: Two Centuries of Artists in Maine, through Nov. 6; Antiquity & America: The Ancient Mediterranean in the United States, through Feb. 5, 2023. 725-3275. Castine Historical Society, 17 School St. Abbott School Exhibition Gallery, through Oct. 10; Clark Fitz-Gerald: Castine’s Celebrated Sculptorin-Residence, through Oct. 10. 326-4118. Colby College Museum of Art, 5600 May Act of Sight: The Tsiaras Family Photography Collection, through Aug. 14; Andrew Wyeth: Life and Death, through Oct. 16; Sarah Cain: hand in hand, through Dec. 11; Alex Katz: Theater and Dance, Aug. 14–Feb. 19, 2023. 859-5600. Courthouse Gallery, 6 Court St., Ellsworth. Jon Imber: The Freedom of Abstraction; Tom Curry, Aug. 8-Sept. 2. 667-6611. Farnsworth Art Museum, 16 Museum St., Rockland. Andrew Wyeth: Early Temperas, through Oct. 16; Andrew Wyeth: Islands in Maine, through Oct. 16; Farnsworth Forward: The Farnsworth Collection, through Dec. 31; Ashley Bryan: Beauty in Return, through Dec. 31; Betsy’s Gift: Works By N.C. and Jamie Wyeth, through Dec. 31; The Geography of Ideas: Wyeth Perspectives of Maine, through Dec. 31; Leonard Baskin: I Hold the Cracked Mirror Up to Man, through Jan. 15, 2023. 596-6457. First Friday Art Walks, Creative Portland, 84 Free St. Aug. 5; Sept. 2. 370-4784. Greenhut Galleries, 146 Middle St. Thomas Connolly, through Jul. 30; John Whalley, Aug. 4–27; Joel Babb, Sep. 1–Oct. 1. 772-2693. Maine Maritime Museum, 243 Washington St., Bath. Uncharted: Maine Artists: Maine Waters, through Sep. 18; Looking for Winslow Homer, through Nov. 27; Sustaining Maine’s Waters: Understanding the Changing Gulf of Maine, through Dec. 31; Shipwrecks & Salvage, through Dec. 31. 443-1316. Ogunquit Museum of American Art, 543 Shore Rd., Jim Morin, Drawing and Painting, through Oct. 31; Virginia Overton: Untitled (Cardinal C-80), through Oct. 31; The View from Narrow Cove, through Oct. 31; I’ll Bring the Luck with Me: Hunting and Fishing with Henry Strater, through Oct. 31; Robert Laurent: Open Studio, through Oct. 31; Hopeful: A Project by Charlie Hewitt, through Oct. 31; Sue Miller: Personal Voyage, Aug. 1–Oct. 31; John Walker: From Low Tide to High Tide, Aug. 1–Oct. 31. 646-4909. Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress Sq. Flying Woman: The Paintings of Katherine Bradford, through Sept. 11; Surrealist Play Gone Astray, through Oct. 23; The Draftsman in Society: German Expressionist Prints, through Dec. 11. 775-6148. Seal Cove Auto Museum, 1414 Tremont Rd. Selling Lifestyle and Leisure: Art, Advertising, and the Automobile. 244-9242.