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future E Street Band guitarist Nils Lofgren found himself playing on Neil's landmark 1970 'After The Gold Rush' album. Lofgren tells the Associated Press that Young and his producer offered ...
The mournful title track to his third album, After the Gold Rush was ostensibly an ode ... the new songs – which featured 18-year-old Nils Lofgren on guitar and piano, an instrument he was ...
In 1978, Nils Lofgren was a well-regarded but vaguely ... He was a teenager when he appeared on Young’s classic “After the Gold Rush,” and just a few years older when he played on Young ...
there was also newcomer Nils Lofgren, who was 19 at the time. Young met him at the Washington, D.C., club the Cellar Door and invited him to play piano for the After the Gold Rush sessions.
After all these years, how do you assess your career? You’ve been a solo artist, a band leader, a band member, a sideman. Satisfying? Lofgren: Absolutely. I still remember when I was 18 ...
Nils Lofgren ... After The Goldrush. The whole endeavor was almost too surreal for the young D.C. native to even wrap his mind around. Not long after releasing After The Gold Rush, Young ...
Celebrating 50 years as one of rock and roll’s hardest working and highly regarded guitarists, Nils Lofgren returns ... on the classic albums “After the Gold Rush” and “Tonight’s the ...
When the call came, Nils Lofgren was preparing to go on tour ... Young asked him to play piano on his classic album “After The Gold Rush,” and almost as soon as that was finished he joined ...
Singer/songwriter and ace guitarist Nils Lofgren has never hit the big time, but he has never been far from those who have. Working next to Neil Young on After the Gold Rush when he was 18 ...
So, why do I find myself asking Nils Lofgren ... David Briggs to Neil Young’s house to make ‘After the Gold Rush,’ ” Lofgren says, “and telling David, ‘Wow, it’s so nice not to ...
Nils Lofgren ... between bands has given Lofgren amazing opportunities in a career of 48 years — starting at 17 when he played piano on Neil Young’s “Gold Rush” album.
Nils Lofgren knows it’s only rock ’n ... Lofgren had played on Young’s classic “After the Gold Rush” and was fronting his own band Grin at this point. “He said, 'Sure man come ...