According to Billboard.com. producer Rick Rubin convinced the band members to record a covers set since they had not done an album since 1994. He proposed that for this disc, the band does songs that they love.
One of the band members, Graham Nash, told Billboard.com, "Rick Rubin’s a brilliant man and what he wants is an album with no CSN songs. He wants to do an album of all the songs we love, all the songs we wish we’d written."
The band had initially identified 60 songs for this LP and has now cut it down to 20. Nash would not reveal the songs the band will be doing.
The band will start recording in 2009 and expects to relaese the album later that year.