An American Prayer

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  The Doors

  The Doors

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  L.A. Woman

  The Doors

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  The Very Best of The Doors

  The Doors

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  Led Zeppelin IV

  Led Zeppelin

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  The Best of the Animals

  The Animals

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  Exile on Main St.

  The Rolling Stones

An American Prayer is the ninth and final studio album by The Doors. In 1978, seven years after lead singer Jim Morrison died and five years after the remaining members of the band broke up, Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger, and John Densmore 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 received mixed reviews and still divides critics, yet it has managed a platinum certification in the US. When the album was originally released, longtime Doors' producer Paul Rothchild labeled the album a "rape of Jim Morrison". Rothchild claimed that he had heard all of the reels of master tapes from both the 1969 and the 1970 poetry sessions, insisting that the three remaining Doors failed to realize Morrison's original intent for an audio presentation of the poetry. Morrison himself, prior to leaving for Paris, had approached composer Lalo Schifrin as a possible contributor for the music tracks meant to accompany the poetry, with no pa…

When was An American Prayer released?

An American Prayer was released in 1978.

How many tracks are on An American Prayer?

An American Prayer has 23 tracks, with a runtime of 46 minutes.