An American Prayer - Music By The Doors
Jim Morrison
- LP
- Label
- Elektra
Newly Remastered 180g Vinyl LP!
Includes Original 8-Page Illustrated Libretto!
This album was released seven years after lead singer Jim Morrison died and five years after the remaining members of the band broke up.
The surviving members reunited and recorded backing tracks over Morrison's poetry (originally recorded in 1969 and 1970). Other pieces of music and spoken word recorded by the Doors and Morrison were also used in the audio collage, such as dialogue from Morrison's film HWY: An American Pastoral and snippets from jam sessions.
The album also includes a composite live version of "Roadhouse Blues", splicing together performances at New York City's Felt Forum and Detroit's Cobo Hall, both captured during the Doors' 1970 Roadhouse Blues Tour. This version of the song later appeared on the In Concert compilation.