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In the ’70s, Neil Young got in the habit of creating some of his best work and keeping it to himself. Of the many albums Neil Young has recorded and shelved over the years, perhaps none is more fabled than 1977’s Chrome Dreams. Originally slated after the 1975 Crazy Horse collaboration Zuma, and 1976’s Stills-Young Band LP Long May You Run, Chrome Dreams was dissected and many of its songs ended up on other records over the years, including Young’s official 1977 offering, American Stars ‘n Bars.
Chrome Dreams is the 44th album by Neil Young. It was first compiled as an acetate for consideration as an album for release in 1977. A copy of the acetate widely circulated as a bootleg in the decades prior to its now…much delayed official release!
As an entire piece, it’s never seen the light of day, despite bootleggers’ best intentions , and Young’s 2007 attempt at myth-busting, Chrome Dreams II, which had nothing to do with the album discarded three decades earlier.
Now, as Young continues to clean out his archives with shelved and forgotten records (including Homegrown and Hitchhiker, two other albums he left unreleased in the mid-’70s), Chrome Dreams finally arrives in an official, approved edition. And it was worth the wait.
