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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":201,"featured_media":670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[24,1],"class_list":["post-668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-doors","tag-classic-rock","tag-international-rock"],"yoast_head":"\n