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Track listing 1. Awake 2. Ghost Song, The 3. Dawn's Highway 4. Newborn Awakening 5. To Come Of Age 6. Black Polished Chrome 7. Latino Chrome 8. Angels And Sailors 9. Stoned Immaculate 10. Movie, The 11. Curses,Invocations 12. American Night 13. Roadhouse Blues 14. World On Fire, The 15. Lament 16. Hitchiker, The 17. American Prayer, An 18. Hour For Magic 19. Freedom Exists 20. Feast Of Friends, A 21. Babylon Fading - (bonus track) 22. Bird Of Prey - (bonus track) 23. Ghost Song, The - (bonus track) Details Playing time: 46 min. Distributor: WEA Recording type: Studio Recording mode: Stereo SPAR Code: n/a Album notes The Doors: Jim Morrison (vocals); Robby Krieger (guitar); Ray Manzarek (keyboards); John Densmore (drums). Additional personnel includes: Bob Glaub, Jerry Scheff (bass); Reinol Andino (percussion); Arthur Barrow (programming). Producers include: Paul A. Rothchild, Bruce Botnick, The Doors. Engineers include: Bruce Botnick. AN AMERICAN PRAYER is made up of recordings of Jim Morrison reading his own poetry, to which the remaining members of the Doors added musical tracks, after his death. The CD reissue of AN AMERICAN PRAYER includes a newly recorded backing for "The Ghost Song." "I'll tell you every place and person that I've been." Cobalt blue and dour all over, AN AMERICAN PRAYER is primarily an up-close studio collage of Jim Morrison's verse (read by the author) spread over glorious Doors-rock, interspersed with live snatches of the singer/poet's on-stage antics. The images here evoke the seedy underbelly of post-hippie America, the disturbingly familiar manifestations of a troubled national conscience. The recording does, however, manage to maintain a sparkling psychedelic quality throughout. Several of the songs will be familiar to those who own the soundtrack to the 1991 film The Doors, but the original context gives them more weight. The title track is like a combined reprise to "Ghost Song" and the classic "The End," replete with Morrison's strange questions and even strangers assertions. The band sounds crisp, playing music that has a distinctively '70s thrust. Robby Krieger's guitar rips as fluidly as ever. All in all, a candid tour through the dimly lit passages of a haunted soul--at once personal and quite American.Read full review
Alway was so much in to Jim Morrison and work from music, writing and poetry. " An American Prayer " share some of this so well and the music with is played by The Doors. Just great all around set.
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awesome when you think that the doors added music to Jims words years after his death. listen to this with a cool buzz in a dark room on a real good stereo turned up so you can feel his words. you can and will feel Jim in the room with you. i felt a soft rush of wind blow through the room while listening to his voice. kinda spooky. but real. these words on this cd make Jim real. as he did to us back in the 60s. too bad he couldnt have stayed here with us. Him and Pam died too young. shame. as far as the album goes....BREAK ON THROUGH TO THE OTHER SIDE AND DIG IT!!!!
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For anyone who is a fan of The Doors, this is something you should check out. The entire album is Jim Morrison reading his poetry and stories while the other members of the band play music. While this was a posthumous release, it still honors the memory of Jim Morrison and the impact he had on music in the late 60's and early 70's. A very interesting CD.
A true Doors fan would want this. Some of this was used in the movie produced by Oliver Stone. Jim reading his poetry set to music.
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