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Neil Young
American Stars 'N Bars
Release Date: 1977 06 zz
Label: Reprise

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, All Music Guide

Tracks:

	Title	Composer	Time
1	Old Country Waltz	Young	3:00
2	Saddle Up the Palomino	Young, Charles, Drummond	3:01
3	Hey Babe	Young	3:37
4	Hold Back the Tears	Young	4:20
5	Bite the Bullet	Young	3:36
6	Star of Bethlehem	Young	2:42
7	Will to Love	Young	7:11
8	Like a Hurricane	Young	8:20
9	Homegrown	Young	2:21

Releases:

Year	Type	Label
		Reprise
2003	CD	Reprise
2003	CD	Reprise
	CD	WEA Japan
	CD	WEA Japan
	CS	Reprise
1990	CS	Warner Bros.
2003	DVA	Warner Bros.
1977	LP	Reprise
1977	LP	WB
2007	LP	Warner Bros.