1977 - American Stars 'n Bars is the eighth studio album by Canadian musician Neil Young, released in 1977. Compiled from recording sessions scattered over a 29 month period. 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 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." The album's centerpiece, however, is "Like a Hurricane," one of Young's classic hard rock songs and guitar workouts, and a perpetual concert favorite.
This album was recorded at: 13 December 1974 - 4 April , 1977 Quadrafonic, Nashville; Wally Heider Studios, Hollywood, California; Broken Arrow Ranch, Redwood City, California; Indigo Recording Studio, Malibu
This album was recorded at: 13 December 1974 - 4 April , 1977 Quadrafonic, Nashville; Wally Heider Studios, Hollywood, California; Broken Arrow Ranch, Redwood City, California; Indigo Recording Studio, Malibu
SIDE A:
Neil Young, Crazy Horse And The Bullets:
1. The Old Country Waltz
2. Saddle Up the Palomino
3. Hey Babe
4. Hold Back the Tears
5. Bite the Bullet
SIDE B:
Neil Young And Crazy Horse:
1. Star of Bethlehem
2. Will to Love
3. Like a Hurricane
4. Homegrown
The album cover was designed by a friend of Young's, actor Dean Stockwell, and features Connie Moskos (Stockwell’s friend) keeled over with a bottle of Canadian whisky in her hand and an intoxicated Young with his face pressed against the glass floor.
