Neil Young - Chrome Dreams
Neil Young
Chrome Dreams [Rust Edition]
As part of our occasional “Lost Albums” series, here is Neil Young’s Chrome Dreams. The album was planned for release in 1977 then abandoned. Instead Neil Young released American Stars & Bars that year. Four songs on Chrome Dreams were included in American Stars & Bars. A fifth, Hold Back The Tears, was rerecorded with a band and added to American Stars & Bars. The version on Chrome Dreams is a solo recording.
One song, Captain Kennedy, was later released on Hawks & Doves in 1980. The remaining six songs were all eventually released but in rerecorded versions.
In the early 1990s, an acetate of Chrome Dreams emerged in the collector’s market in Germany, finally putting to rest rumours of the album’s existence. On the acetate bore a date and year, March 16, 1977 and all the songs.
Click here for the tracklist that was submitted to Reprise as Chrome Dreams and to download MP3s.
Very nice. Thanks. I really enjoyed listening to this.
It remains a mystery why Neil Young decided not to release it. Some suggest it was Stringman, a possible song about Stephen Stills, which he didn’t want out. Anybody has a clue?
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