After The Flood has a post about Nils Lofgren’s new record “The Loner - Nils Sings Neil” which is Nils’ take on the Neil Young songbook.
Nils worked with Neil most notably on “After The Gold Rush” but most interestingly on the underrated “Tonight’s The Night”.
Lofgren is an all around, genuine guitar player. The Crazy Horse stuff is good, The Neil stuff is good, the Grin stuff is good, the solo stuff is good, the Bruce Springsteen stuff is good; can’t stump Nils. He got the chops but doesn’t let them get in the way of a good song.
Here’s a link to an MP3 of Nils doing “Mr. Soul” which features some nice, chunky, solo acoustic guitar playing and a vocal that, for some reason, brings Harry Chapin to mind. Nice piece of work.
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Pat Darnell and Friendly Types wrote,
Sounds a bit like “Flood Gauge Fusion…”
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Pat Darnell and at least one Friend wrote,
Okay, I am settled in to yet another night of absolute zero. Downloading successfully and Wow; how about that?
[literary device in use: understatement] “Neil Young sure knows how to write a song.”
Nils has brought Mr. Soul up to speed as it was due. This Mr Nils sittin’ across the coffee table sorting it out in a genre I most admire: lyrical shaman lament, is several years ahead of its time: it is also several decades past its time.
I am there with Mr Nils, just like I am there when Otis is sittin’ on the dock..
File that one under Five Stars, Three Moons and a Barn. Also thanks to the distaff [literary device: allusion] for finding it and making it available. I will resist over-stating the obvious.
Pat Darnell and at least one Friend’s last blog post..Seven Monkey Fury says Mr Prez
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