In an exclusive interview with us, Graham Nash has revealed that following Crosby, Stills & Nash's upcoming covers album, the trio is set to record their first-ever Christmas album. CSN has signed a two-record deal with Columbia for the covers set along with the holiday collection.

Graham Nash

Nash explains that after decades of trying to convince David Crosby and Stephen Stills to dip their toes into the Yuletide waters, a CSN Christmas set will finally be recorded: "For the last 30 years, I've wanted Crosby, Stills & Nash to consider doing a Christmas record. I think that with our harmonic structure, and our sense of rhythm and our sense of melody -- we could do a fabulous Christmas record. And it won't be something that you do at the end of your career; it's something that's vibrant and necessary right now! Bob Dylan's Christmas album, y'know James (Taylor's) Christmas album! It's not... It doesn't have the stigma that it used to have. It used to be, well, Perry Como. It's something that if you do it beautifully, it could sell for years."

CSN will open tomorrow night's (October 29th) Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame 25th Anniversary Concerts at New York's Madison Square Garden with an extended set featuring Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, and James Taylor.

Also appearing are Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, Stevie Wonder, B.B. King, Sting, Simon & Garfunkel, Paul Simon, Little Anthony & the Imperials, Dion, Tom Morello, John Fogerty, Smokey Robinson, Chuck Berry, and Little Richard.