We had a couple tours planned with Neil and Crazy Horse, which I was so excited about, especially after World Record. Of course, the Mighty Max [Weinberg] wrote the great book, The Big Beat [Conversations with Rock’s Greatest Drummers].

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My wife Amy, who’s this fierce social media fighter for women’s rights, kids’ rights, human rights, common sense, democracy…She’s really deep in it and has got a lot of fans for it. And sure enough, as soon as I started writing that song and I got an inkling of the chorus, I said, “Man, this one’s for David.And rehearsals were a little, not rocky, but it was getting your sea legs a bit, all of us in our own way.

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You’re pretty busy at the moment, but do you hope to do solo shows at some point soon where you can play this new music? More recently, he joined Young and his band Crazy Horse to record Colorado (2019), Barn (’21), and World Record (’22). And inevitably that familiarity allows for a lot deeper interaction and kind of a musical understanding.Charged with a thumping beat and low-end menace, "Only Ticket Out" is the doleful tale of a tortured man who "Blacked out cold in an alley/ Full of NyQuil and stale dope. And I mean, Crazy Horse is one of my oldest musical families, and I really treasure and value it all. I learned a long time ago to give myself permission to get down in whatever band I’m in, whatever role I have. 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 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.

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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. 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. For his first studio album since 2019’s Blue With Lou, Lofgren has surrounded himself with pals like Ringo Starr, Neil Young, and the late David Crosby. But the song is a story, largely autobiographical, about someone completely in the throes of alcoholism and addiction. It must take a unique type of beast to satisfy the titanium standards that Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen obviously demand.That his latest, Mountains, features all should come as no surprise", concluding that "he delivers something we didn't know we needed but now somehow can't live without". So until this is done, whenever that is, and I hope it’s not soon, at that point, I’ll look at getting back out. 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.