Neil Young - American stars 'n bars
Reprise  (1977)
Folk-Rock

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#142

7*
LP    9 tracks  (38:08) 
   01   The Old Country Waltz             03:00
   02   Saddle Up The Palomino             03:01
   03   Hey Babe             03:37
   04   Hold Back The Tears             04:20
   05   Bite The Bullet             03:36
   06   Star Of Bethlehem             02:42
   07   Will To Love             07:11
   08   Like A Hurricane   Neil Young & Crazy Horse           08:20
   09   Homegrown   Neil Young & Crazy Horse           02:21
Persoonlijke Gegevens
Details
Cat. nummer 48496
Verpakking Jewel Case
SPARS DDD
Geluid Stereo
Muzikanten
Vocals Neil Young
Medewerkers
Tekstschrijver Neil Young
Producent Neil Young; Tim Mulligan; David Briggs
Opmerkingen
Recorded 1974 - 1977 Neil Young made a point of listing the recording dates of the songs on American Stars 'N Bars; the dates even appeared on the LP labels. They revealed that the songs had been cut at four different sessions dating back to 1974. But even without such documentation, it would have been easy to tell that the album was a stylistic hodgepodge, its first side consisting of country-tinged material featuring steel guitar and fiddle, plus backup vocals from Linda Ronstadt and the then-unknown Nicolette Larson, while the four songs on the second side varied from acoustic solo numbers like "Will to Love" to raging rockers such as "Like a Hurricane." Just as apparent was the album's unevenness: side one consisted of lightweight compositions, while side two had more ambitious ones, with "Will to Love," for example, extending the romantic metaphor of a salmon swimming upsteam across seven minutes. The album's saving grace was "Like a Hurricane," one of Young's classic hard rock songs and guitar workouts, a perennial concert favorite. Without it, American Stars 'N Bars would have been one of Young's least memorable albums, and since it turned up the following year on the compilation Decade, the LP was rendered inessential. (As of mid-1996, American Stars 'N Bars had not been released on CD in the U.S.)