Neil Young: Hawks & Doves
Cynthia Rose, NME, 15 November 1980
SOME TIME ago. Neil Young produced American Stars And Bars originally intended as a concept album which would offer one set of songs about American bars contrasted with offerings about American 'stars'/heroes. Things changed; the LP turned out all about bars the escapism of hooch, and its spiritual strip-mining.
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