Long May You Run

Long May You Run
Studio album by The Stills–Young Band
Released September 20, 1976
Recorded Criteria Studios, Miami, February 16 - June 7, 1976
Genre Rock
Length 39:10
Label Reprise
Producer Tom Dowd, Don Gehman, Stephen Stills, Neil Young
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Illegal Stills
(1976)		 Long May You Run
(1976)		 Thoroughfare Gap
(1978)
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Zuma
(1975)		 Long May You Run
(1976)		 American Stars 'N Bars
(1977)
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Long May You Run is an album credited to The Stills-Young Band, a collaboration between Stephen Stills and Neil Young, released in 1976 on Reprise Records, catalogue MS 2253. It peaked at #26 on the Billboard 200, and was certified gold in the U.S. by the RIAA. It is the sole studio release by Stills and Young in tandem outside of their work with Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.

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Background

Following the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young reunion tour of 1974, an attempt by the quartet to finalize a new album ended amidst acrimony without result. David Crosby and Graham Nash resumed their partnership as Crosby & Nash, while Stills and Young continued their independent careers in 1975. Songs from the aborted CSNY album appeared on various albums by group members, and Stills covered two Young songs on his most recent studio albums: "New Mama" on Stills; and "The Loner" on Illegal Stills.

In early 1976, Stills and Young reached a rapprochement, and began to work on a joint album project from a desire by both to pick up where they left off with their Buffalo Springfield-era guitar explorations, a decade after the inception of the band. Crosby and Nash signed on as well, and briefly Long May You Run looked to be the awaited CSNY reunion album. However, Crosby and Nash departed the project to focus on what would become their 1976 album Whistling Down the Wire, Young and Stills reacting by removing the duo's vocals and other contributions from the master tapes.[2] Crosby and Nash vowed never to work with either again, although less than a year later they would regroup with Stills for a new CSN album in 1977.

The Stills-Young Band, comprising Stills' current touring band behind the pair, began a tour in 1976 prior to the album's release. The tour commenced in Clarkston, Michigan on June 23, but after nine dates Young dropped out after July 18 via a laconic telegram to Stills, forcing Stills to complete the concert tour solo through October.[3] The telegram read: "Dear Stephen, funny how some things that start spontaneously end that way. Eat a peach. Neil."[4]

The album's advance single "Long May You Run" at #71 on the UK singles chart,[5] and was an elegy for Neil Young's first car, a 1948 Buick Roadmaster hearse – apparently a different hearse than the one Stills spotted Young driving around Los Angeles in 1966 which led to the formation of Buffalo Springfield. The single "Midnight on the Bay" bubbled under the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at #105. "Long May You Run" was performed by Young on the final broadcast of The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien on January 22, 2010, and during the closing ceremonies for the Vancouver Olympics on February 28, 2010.

Track listing

Side one

No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Long May You Run"   Neil Young 3:53
2. "Make Love to You"   Stephen Stills 5:10
3. "Midnight on the Bay"   Neil Young 3:59
4. "Black Coral"   Stephen Stills 4:41
5. "Ocean Girl"   Neil Young 3:19

Side two

No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Let It Shine"   Neil Young 4:43
2. "12/8 Blues"   Stephen Stills 3:41
3. "Fontainebleau"   Neil Young 3:58
4. "Guardian Angel"   Stephen Stills 5:40

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Ruhlmann, W. (2011 [last update]). "Long May You Run - Stephen Stills | AllMusic". allmusic.com. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r19150. Retrieved 26 July 2011. 
  2. ^ Zimmer, Dave, and Diltz, Henry. Crosby Stills & Nash: The Authorized Biography, St. Martin’s Press, 1984. ISBN 0-312-17660-0, p. 185.
  3. ^ Neil Young tour statistics
  4. ^ Zimmer and Diltz, pp. 186-7.
  5. ^ Long May You Run Songfacts

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