Tracklist
album info:
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Discs1
GenreRock
Rank−
Released1977-00-00
Record labelReprise Records, Warner Brothers
Charts
AddedSeptember 13th, 2005
Last updatedSeptember 8th, 2020
AboutAmerican Stars 'n Bars is the eighth studio album by Canadian / American musician Neil Young, released on Reprise Records in 1977. Compiled from recording sessions scattered over a 29-month period, it includes "Like a Hurricane," one of Young's best-known songs. It peaked at #21 on the Billboard 200 and received a RIAA gold certification.
In the summer of 1976, Young rekindled his partnership with Stephen Stills, resulting in a tour that ended abruptly and the album Long May You Run. He then embarked on his second tour of the year with Crazy Horse, but spent the first half of 1977 off the road. His previous album, Zuma, had been issued in November 1975. After recording several country rock compositions at sessions in April 1977, he assembled additional tracks from a variety of earlier recording dates to make up the balance of the new album.
The April 1977 sessions featured Crazy Horse augmented by an ephemeral conglomeration dubbed "The Bullets": pedal steel guitarist and longtime Young collaborator Ben Keith, violinist Carole Mayedo and backing vocalists Linda Ronstadt and Nicolette Larson (AKA The Bullets).
In the summer of 1976, Young rekindled his partnership with Stephen Stills, resulting in a tour that ended abruptly and the album Long May You Run. He then embarked on his second tour of the year with Crazy Horse, but spent the first half of 1977 off the road. His previous album, Zuma, had been issued in November 1975. After recording several country rock compositions at sessions in April 1977, he assembled additional tracks from a variety of earlier recording dates to make up the balance of the new album.
The April 1977 sessions featured Crazy Horse augmented by an ephemeral conglomeration dubbed "The Bullets": pedal steel guitarist and longtime Young collaborator Ben Keith, violinist Carole Mayedo and backing vocalists Linda Ronstadt and Nicolette Larson (AKA The Bullets).