"Our House" by singer-songwriter Graham Nash, "an ode to counterculture domestic bliss", was written while Nash was living with Joni Mitchell (and her two cats). In October 2013, in an interview with Terry Gross Nash elaborated;
"Well it's an ordinary moment. What happened is that Joni and I, I don't know whether you know anything about Los Angeles, but on Ventura Boulevard in the valley, there's a very famous deli called Art's Deli. And we'd been there for breakfast. We're going to get Joan's car, and we pass an antique store. We're looking in the window, and she saw a very beautiful vase that she wanted to buy..... I persuaded her to buy the vase. It wasn't expensive, and we took it home. It was a very grey, kind of sleety, drizzly L.A. morning. We got to the house in Laurel Canyon, got through the door and I said, you know what? I'll light a fire. Why don't you put some flowers in the vase you just bought? Well, she was in the garden getting some flowers. That meant she was not at the piano, but I was.... and one hour later "Our House" was born, out of an incredibly ordinary moment that many, many people have experienced"
In the same interview, Nash was asked about the harmonies in the song, "It's me and Dave and Steven, doing our best. That's all we ever do. You know, we're lucky enough to be able to do, you know, anything that we want to do, musically. And, you know, these guys are incredible musicians. Crosby is one of the most unique musician I know, and Steven Stills has a blues-based, South American kind of feeling to his music. And I'm, you know, Henry VIII guy from England.... You know it's not supposed to work, but it does, somehow"
"0ur House" reached No:30 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and No:20 on the Cash Box Top 100.
In 1997 Crosby, Stills & Nash were inducted into The Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame.
Each band member have been inducted twice, Crosby also with The Byrds (1991), Stills with Buffalo Springfield (1997) and Nash with The Hollies (2010).
In 1997 Joni Mitchell was also inducted into The Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame
So far Mitchell albums inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame are 'Blue' in 1971 and 'Court And Spark' in 1974.
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