Songs for Beginners is the debut solo studio album by English singer-songwriter Graham Nash.

[4] Nash brought in an impressive group of guests to assist in the recording, including David Crosby, Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, Dave Mason, David Lindley, Rita Coolidge, and Neil Young (under Young's early 1970s pseudonym Joe Yankee).

The making of this album directly followed Nash's break-up with longtime girlfriend Joni Mitchell.

A deluxe edition of Songs for Beginners was released on 23 September 2008 as a CD+DVD-Audio pack, featuring a bonus multichannel high resolution audio, all new 2008 video interview with Nash, plus a photo gallery and complete lyrics along with the 11-track CD album remastered.

[6] The song "Simple Man" features in the opening sequence of the 2007 film Reign Over Me, and a copy of the album appears in it.