I don’t know a lot from Nils Lofgren, just two songs really, “No Mercy” and “Keith Don’t Go”.
Nils Lofgren, who has had a long solo career, also worked with Neil Young in the Seventies, as well as playing in Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band for 25 years.
But I didn’t know that until just now…
Actually I first got to know his 1979 track “No Mercy” (from the album “Nils”) a year or so later through a band I used to write some songs with in Bamberg, Germany, who played it.
I still remember hearing it the first time crammed into a tiny cellar with just enough room for the band, their equipment and a couple of other people, i.e. right up close!
Here it is, “No Mercy”, recorded in 1979 (with lyric subtitles in German, how fitting):
And here is a live version of “No Mercy” twelve years later on German television in 1991:
The other Nils Lofgren track I am familiar with actually came out a year earlier in 1978.
It’s from his fourth album “Night After Night”, and is called “Keith Don’t Go” (Keith being Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones):
Nils Lofgren also plays this one on the acoustic guitar, so here is “Keith Don’t Go” unplugged:
Which do YOU think sounds better, electric or acoustic?
Paul