ONCE UPON A TIME.....Long May You Run

 

STILLS / YOUNG BAND  Long May You Run  (Reprise,1976) - Country rock


     It sounded like a good idea, anyway. Neil Young joins with his Buffalo Springfield and CSNY bandmate Steven Stills. They had made some great music in the past, so maybe the magic would still be there. I sure hoped for a great album, I loved some of the earlier Stills albums especially the first Manassas album. And even though Stills more recent albums had become uninteresting and his voice had lost some of its edge, still these were the two guys dueling guitars on such great tunes as Bluebird and Almost Cut My Hair. It happened before, perhaps it would happen again.
     But it was not to be. I was disappointed in the Stills/Young band effort Long May You Run. It had some good songs, but compared to the genius of Zuma, Neil's songs on LMYR are a letdown. Granted they aren't terrible songs, as a group they just aren't among his great tunes. Long May You Run the song was pretty good. Fontainebleau is solid. Midnight On The Bay and Ocean Girl are ok. Let It Shine was lifted out of novelty tune status by having a really good lead guitar part.

TRACKLIST : Long May You Run
                         Make Love To You
                         Midnight On The Bay
                         Black Coral
                         Ocean Girl
                         Let It Shine
                         12/8 Blues (All The Same)
                         Fontaineblau
                         Guardian Angel

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