Longplayers from yesteryear

20 September 2026

Legendary songwriters/voices Stephen Stills and Neil Young made one
LP together as a duo under the name TEH THE STILLS-YOUNG BAND.

The album, titled LONG MAY YOU RUN, was released
today 50 years ago, on 20 September 1976.

Following the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young stadium 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, while Stills and Young continued their independent careers.

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 Buffalo Springfield (1966-1968). Crosby and Nash signed on as well, and briefly Long May You Run looked to be the awaited CSNY reunion album, but in the end it was just Stills and Young.

Young about working with Stills: “The Stills/Young band was a sort of attempt to wrap up something that we had started a long time ago. It really wasn’t as hot as the early stuff we did. When we were about twenty we used to lock horns a bit, and that was good for the group.”

AllMusic said in retrospect: “Young’s songs were pleasant newly written throwaways with
the exception of the title track, a trunk song he had written as a tribute to an old car. Stills’ compositions seemed more seriously intended, but still were not substantial.

The playing, largely handled by the professional sessionman types in Stills’ band, was far smoother than what one was accustomed to in a Young album. The result was a listenable record, but not a compelling one.”

SINGLE
(About Young‘s old car)

ALBUM

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