Nils Lofgren
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Nils Hilmer Lofgren (born June 21, 1951) is an American rock musician, recording artist, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. Along with his work as a solo artist, he is a member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band since 1984, a former member of Crazy Horse, and founder/frontman of the band Grin. Lofgren was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the E Street Band in 2014.
Biography
Early life and career
Lofgren was born in Chicago in 1951 to an Italian mother and a Swedish father. They moved to the suburban town of Garrett Park, Maryland, near the northern border of Washington, D.C. as a young child. Lofgren's first instrument was classical accordion, beginning at age 5, which he studied seriously for ten years. After studying classical music and jazz, throughout his youth, Lofgren switched his emphasis to rock music, and focused on the piano and the guitar. By 1968, Lofgren formed the band Grin originally with bassist George Daly (later replaced by Bob Gordon), and drummer Bob Berberich, former players in the DC band The Hangmen. The group played in venues throughout the Washington, D.C. area. Lofgren had been a competitive gymnast in high school, a skill that popped up later in his career. During this time, Lofgren met Neil Young and played for him. Young invited Lofgren to come to California and the Grin trio (Lofgren, Daly and Berberich) drove out west and lived for some months at a home Neil Young rented in Laurel Canyon.
Nils Lofgren (album)
Nils Lofgren is a 1975 album by Nils Lofgren, also known as the "Fat Man Album". It was his first solo album, following the breakup of his group, Grin.
The album was critically praised at the time of its release, most notably in a 1975 Rolling Stone review by Jon Landau. The 1983 Rolling Stone Record Guide said it was a "tour de force of unquenchable vitality and disarming subtlety." In 2007, nearly 32 years after the release of Nils Lofgren, the album was again praised by Rolling Stone in the "Fricke's Picks" column, where David Fricke said it was one of 1975's best albums. In 2007 the album was finally re-mastered and rereleased by Hip-O Select after being out of print for nearly a decade on compact disc.
The circus billboard that appears on the cover of this album also appears in an episode of The Monkees television series, "The Monkees at the Circus," season 1, episode 22.
Track listing
All songs by Nils Lofgren unless otherwise indicated
Podcasts:
Nils Lofgren
ALBUMS
- Old School released: 2011
- I Came to Dance released: 2010
- Cry Tough released: 2009
- The Loner: Nils Sings Neil released: 2008
- Sacred Weapon released: 2006
- everybreath released: 2005
- Nils Lofgren Band Live released: 2003
- Code of the Road released: 1999
- The Best of Nils Lofgren & Grin released: 1998
- Soft Fun, Tough Tears 1971–1979 released: 1997
- Nils Lofgren released: 1997
- Acoustic Live released: 1997
- Steal Your Heart released: 1996
- Damaged Goods released: 1995
- Crooked Line released: 1992
- Flip released: 1992
- Silver Lining released: 1991
- Don't Walk, Rock released: 1990
- Code of the Road released: 1986
- Wonderland released: 1983
- Night Fades Away released: 1981
- Nils released: 1979
- Night After Night released: 1977
- Old Grey Whistle released: 1977
- I Came to Dance released: 1977
- Cry Tough released: 1976
- Back It Up!! Nils Lofgren Live: An Authorized Bootleg released: 1975
- Archive Alive! released:
- Favorites 1990–2005 released:
- Classics, Volume 13 released:
- Back It Up released:
- Breakaway Angel released:
- Flip released:
- Ultimate Collection released:
- The Very Best Of released:
The Best of Nils Lofgren & Grin
Released 1998- Beggar's Day
- True Thrill
- Nightmare
- Keith Don't Go (Ode to the Glimmer Twin)
- Back It Up
- The Sun Hasn't Set on This Boy Yet
- Goin' Back
- It's Not a Crime
- Can't Get Closer
- Mud in Your Eye
- Home Is Where the Hurt Is
- Happy Ending Kids
- Jealous Guy
- Like Rain
- Rock and Roll Crook
- Take You to the Movies
- This Life Holds Something for Me
- Shine Silently
Ultimate Collection
- Rock and Roll Crook
- I Don't Want to Know
- Keith Don't Go (Ode to the Glimmer Twin)
- Two by Two
- The Sun Hasn't Set on This Boy Yet
- Cry Tough
- It's Not a Crime
- Mud in Your Eye
- Can't Get Closer (WCGC)
- I Came to Dance
- Shine Silently
- Night Fades Away
- Empty Heart
- Wonderland
- Room Without Love
- Across the Tracks
- Girl in Motion
- You
- Life
- No Mercy (Live)
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Acoustic Live
by: Nils Lofgren1st Strophe:
Out for the first - the atmosphere is heavy
World title lays on the line
Strong and proud he is much older
I am the faster I'm in my prime
2nd Strophe:
Third round late he starts to tire
Open cut over his left eye
Smelling blood attack is relentless
In the back seats I see his girl cry
Chorus I:
Cry - No mercy, no quarter
No place to hide for me and the man
Lefts and rights never came in harder
No mercy, take it while you can - now!
No mercy take it while you can
3rd Strophe:
Back in my corner they scream ' No mercy!"
' Put him away, don't let him recover!"
Someone's eyes drills holes in my head
It is his proud determined mother
Chorus II:
Cry - No mercy, no quarter
No place to hide for me or the man
Right and wrong never came in harder
No mercy, take it while you can - now!
No mercy, take it while you can
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4th Strophe:
I wish another could do this thing for me
His eyes are flooded, doubt he can even see
I hungered this title but now it don't seem right
I fight back tears while I destroy his life
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