Description
LABEL: Reprise / WEA
VINYL RELEASE DATE: 08/18/2017
ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE: 1977
VARIANT: 50th Anniversary Edition, Clear Vinyl LP
Limited 140 gram vinyl LP pressing. American Stars 'n Bars is the eighth studio album by Canadian 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. In the summer of 1976, Young rekindled his partnership with Stephen Stills, resulting in a tour that ended abruptly and an album. He then embarked on his second tour of the year with Crazy Horse, but spent the first half of 1977 off the road. After recording enough tracks to fill up one side of an album at sessions in April, he assembled additional tracks from earlier recording dates to make up the balance of the new album.