David Crosby joins Isbell on stage at Newport – Watch

RS Country reported over the weekend that David Crosby made a surprise appearance during Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit’s headlining set at the Newport Folk Festival on Friday to perform two Crosby, Stills & Nash classic songs. They report that “Crosby, who was not on the lineup for this year’s Newport Folk Festival, joined Isbell for “Wooden Ships” and the Neil Young-penned CSNY cut “Ohio.” Crosby and Isbell shared vocals on the former track as the two rockers tacked an extended guitar solo to the 1969 track.

Isbell has tackled “Ohio” in concert sans Crosby on a handful of occasions, beginning in December 2016. At Newport, Isbell and Crosby delivered a charged-up rendition of the protest song:

Crosby wasn’t the only unexpected guest on tap at the Newport Folk Festival: During Margo Price’s set, John Prine made an unannounced appearance to join the singer on “In Spite of Ourselves,” a reprisal of the song they performed together at the 2017 Newport Folk Festival.”

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Keith Hargreaves

What a gig that must have been!!