General Article name: American Stars 'N Bars
180 Gr 12" Genre: Rock englischsprachig Product type: LP (Vinyl) Label: Reprise Records Number of tracks: 9 Tracklist LP - 1 1. Neil Young - Old Country Waltz 2. Neil Young - Saddle Up the Old Palomino 3. Neil Young - Hey Babe 4. Neil Young - Hold Back the Tears 5. Neil Young - Bite the Bullet 6. Neil Young - Star of Bethlehem 7. Neil Young - Will to Love 8. Neil Young - Like a Hurricane 9. Neil Young - Homegrown   Description Description

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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." Side one consisted of more lightweight compositions, while side two had more ambitious ones, with "Will to Love," for example, extending the romantic metaphor of a salmon swimming upstream across seven minutes. The album's saving grace was "Like a Hurricane," one of Young's classic hard rock songs and guitar workouts, and a perennial concert favorite. ~ William Ruhlmann

William Ruhlmann

Contributors By (author): Neil Young Record Label: Reprise Record Label: Warner Music Guest Artist: Linda Ronstadt Guest Artist: Emmylou Harris Guest Artist: Nicolette Larson