No, seriously. You don't really need David Crosby's resume, do you?

What's that? It's not that you need it — you just like to reflect on his greatness.

Fair enough.

Crosby is a two-time inductee into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame who came to stardom in 1964 when he co-founded the Byrds and who has since gained music immorality through his various intertwined work with Graham Nash, Stephen Stills and/or Neil Young. Other collaborative projects have included the likes of Grace Slick and Paul Kantner, Phil Collins, David Gilmour and the Indigo Girls, and in later years Crosby formed the band CPR with his son James Raymond and session guitarist Jeff Pevar.

And though they never seemed priorities, Crosby would sporadically release solo albums like "If I Could Only Remember My Name" (1971), "Oh Yes I Can" (1989) and "Thousand Roads" (1991).

Now 75, amazingly enough, Crosby is on an astonishing roll of solo creativity that's resulted over the last two years in some of his strongest albums ever: "Croz," "Lighthouse" and the impending "Sky Trails."

With his distinctive waterfall tenor of a voice, adept lyrical skills that address topics from political to poignant romanticism, and a honeyed way with melody, Crosby has contributed greatly to the American songbook through representative songs like "Wooden Ships," "Guinnevere," "In My Dreams," "Almost Cut My Hair," "Déjà Vu," "Long Time Gone," "Drive My Car," "Thousand Roads" and "Shadow Captain."

Yeah, THAT guy.

Last week, David Crosby & Friends — including Raymond on keys, Mai Agan on bass, Steve DiStanislao on drums, Pevar on guitar and Michelle Willis on keys and vocals — appeared on "The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon." They debuted a new single, "She's Got to be Somewhere," from the impending "Sky Trails" album. Another recent Crosby tune of note is "Home Free," which he wrote for the movie version of his friend Jeff Benedict's book of the same name about the eminent domain case in New London's Fort Trumbull neighborhood.

Crosby & Friends play Monday in the Garde Arts Center. Advance copies of "Sky Trails" will be available for purchase, and partial proceeds from the concert will benefit the Garde's non-profit education and community outreach mission as well as Benedict's Southern Virginia University Institute for Writing and Mass Media.

Earlier this week, Crosby spoke with The Day. Here are excerpts from that conversation.

Q. How did you end up writing a song for the soundtrack to the "Little Pink House" film project?

A. It started when I read Jeff (Benedict's) book "Without Reservation." He's one of the few people to have the guts to dig into that subject very thoroughly and very fairly. He wrote a really good book. Anyway, I went to see him when he was speaking near where we live, and we became friends. He sent me an advance copy of "Little Pink House," and I loved it.

Later, Jeff sent me an email saying they wanted to make a movie of it. I thought it was a terrific idea. Then Jeff asked if I'd consider writing a song for it. "Well, let me watch the film," I said — and it was a very moving film of a very moving book and story. And I got with my son James, and we did write a song for it. It worked for us, and I guess it worked for Jeff, too,

Q. A lot of us of a certain age relied on the music you and your colleagues could and did provide to help us through some tough political and cultural times. Now, you've been going through as prolific a period as you've had in your career — and given the bizarre parade of events going on in the White House and Washington D.C., I wonder: did you write, oh, about 40 songs in the last week alone?

A. (Laughs) I think that's what's gonna happen. It might not be me, but what's going on is going to generate some very fierce art. What we're witnessing is certainly not a democracy in action. It's more like a bar fight. I'm a corny old-school guy who loves the idea of a democracy. It might be flawed, but it's the best option we have. But this is more like a corporate-ocracy. It's very disturbing to me. I have a new song (on "Sky Trail") about Congress. They're just abysmally bad, a clown car. They have the lowest approval ratings ever, and I don't see any way out.

Q. Last year, you released a really fine album called "Lighthouse," and part of its effectiveness is how stripped down and intimate it is. If you'd used electric instruments and a full band and the gloss of an Alan Parsons-style production, it would have been a very different record. My question: did you decide you wanted that spare quality and then wrote songs to fit that dynamic? Or did pre-existing songs automatically suggest that sort of treatment?

A. I'll tell you exactly how it happened! I wanted to work with (producer) Michael League (of the Texas jam band Snarky Puppy), I was thinking of him because he's such a wonderful jazz musician, and it would be like hiring a master carpenter with a massive tool box. There would be no end of possible things we could do. And then he said, "Yeah, but that isn't the direction I want to go. I want to go in the direction of 'If I Could Only Remember My Name' with the intimate acoustic guitar and the stacked vocal harmonies." Well, clearly, that hadn't been my plan, but I said, "I can do that since I guess that's sorta in my wheelhouse."

Q. I was listening to "What's Happening!?!?" (from the Byrds' "Fifth Dimension" album), and I wondered, "Does David Crosby ever sit back and marvel over some of what he's musically accomplished? Does he have maybe favorites that weren't the big hits or whatever?"

A. Hmm. "What's Happening?!?!," eh? I mean, it's an okay song, I guess, but I really don't look back and listen to ANY of that stuff. Seriously. Not at all. I look at today and tomorrow, and I focus on continuing to make records as long as I can. It's my life's work, and part of me knows that I'm continually trying to make something that will last longer than our time here — particularly as old as I am! I keep my head completely focused forward, and that's not to denigrate my past. I loved CSN and CSNY and the Byrds, and I love all those records. But I just don't listen to them. My favorite song is the next one I'm going to write.

An Evening with David Crosby & Friends, 7 p.m. Monday, Garde Arts Center, 325 State St., New London; $48-$68; (860) 444-7373, gardearts.org.