Don McLean – American Pie (VG+/VG+) – LP, UK 1971

American Pie is an LP by Don McLean from 1971 released on the The Rainbow Collection, United Artists Records label.

About this album

American Pie is Don McLean’s defining folk-rock statement, blending confessional songwriting with American myth-making and sharp melodic craft. Released in 1971, it turned McLean into a major album artist and centred on the epic title track, whose meditation on loss and cultural change became one of the era’s most discussed songs. The album also includes Vincent, a tender tribute to Vincent van Gogh that showed McLean’s gift for plainspoken emotional detail. Balancing acoustic folk, rock and country-inflected writing, American Pie helped define the early-1970s singer-songwriter moment and remains his most enduring and influential work.