I felt I had to go deep and with the global war on women, and man’s deadly epidemic of lies and spin for money and power. It’s great not to be the band leader every day of your life, because there’s a lot of things that are not musical you need to deal with when you’re the band leader.

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Mountains will nevertheless benefit from the guitarist's profile on the Springsteen tour, which - despite a case ofCOVID early in the trek - Lofgren says he's enjoying as much as he ever has.He refers to the project as "therapy" during the pandemic lockdown, although Lofgren also worked on two Crazy Horse albums - Barn in 2021 and last year's World Record- and thecollaborative LP All Roads Lead Home that came out March 31. I had been doing a lot of small club work and embracing it and loving it, sometimes as an acoustic duo. So I was very careful not to start having the traditional arrangement of, “Here’s five musicians, and they’re going to move in for three weeks. Just the killer guitar playing on “Dream Killer” and here and there throughout the album’s 10 tracks would be enough, but he’s given us some really fine songs as well, establishing himself as veteran solo artist among his peers.

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Mountains received a score of 64 out of 100 on review aggregator Metacritic based on four critics' reviews, indicating "generally favorable" reception. Although the lyrics he sings are sappy—"Queen of mercy heal us with your love/ Cleanse this wasted world"—he lets loose with the album's vocal highlight on the closer, "Angel Blues. Unless you’re one of those people that read the album credits, checking out who produced, who played bass, who guested on which guitar solo, there’s a chance you’ve missed Nils Lofgren’s storied career. Along the way, we take a few detours into the past to hear about his years working alongside some of rock’s greatest legends.Mountains will be out July 21 and features a lead single, “Ain’t The Truth Enough,” with Ringo Starr on drums. In addition to Mountains, Lofgren is also set to launch his Rockality video series, a collection of 30 to 40-minute vignettes featuring his own recounts of personal stories from his five-decade-plus career in music. It’s pretty nuts you’re in both of them at the same time, even if it occasionally presents problems like this. E Street Band and Crazy Horse member Nils Lofgren has announced a July 21 release for his next solo album, Mountains, and he has some big guns along for the climb. The guitarist had been on the road since the Sixties, when his band Grin took off, and in the years that followed he’d launched many solo tours between stints with Bruce Springsteen in the E Street Band, Ringo Starr in the All Starr Band, and Neil Young in the Santa Monica Flyers, the Trans Band, and Crazy Horse.

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Once Bruce said, “We’re going to hit the road in 2023,” I worked a little harder to make sure it was done by Christmas. It’s easy to forget that as well as being a stalwart of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street band, Nils Lofgren is a solo artist of great renown. As people seem to find my musical stories entertaining for the last half century, I thought we’d share some more with you,” said Lofgren. It's hard not to be excited and have enough adrenalin with what's going on with this band and Bruce after all these years, so it's just a remarkable thing. In “I Remember Her Name” he tells the story of their meeting and eventual romance and marriage, and she’s clearly the inspiration for “Only Your Smile,” and “Back in Your Arms.Covid threw me for a loop,” he tells Rolling Stone via Zoom from a hotel room in Vienna the day after an E Street Band show at the Ernst Happel Stadium. And of course it’ll be nice to have the songs from Mountains to add to the other stuff to when I finally get back on the road.

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Superb heartland rocker ‘Only Ticket Out’ – all shots of gutter whiskey, quarts of Mad Dog, fat lines and dark pills – is a scarred map of a veteran guitar-slinger.

So Jamison Weddle, my fantastic engineer and friend, who has been working with me for over 20 years, would come over for three- to six-hour clips, four or five days a week. We did this crazy set where Neil had 16-inch glitter boots nailed to the piano, and we’re doing songs no one had ever heard. I was trying to hook in the spirit of Charlie to help me through this uncomfortable rage, angst, sadness, and pissed off-ness.