He wrote and recorded the album at his home in Scottsdale, Arizona, also enlisting his regular engineer Jamison Weddle.

Nils Lofgren Details ‘Mountains’ Featuring David Crosby Nils Lofgren Details ‘Mountains’ Featuring David Crosby

Mountains will be out July 21 and features a lead single, “Ain’t The Truth Enough,” with Ringo Starr on drums. People like him, once they get in front of an audience, alone or with a band, a duo, whatever it is, you know it’s going to be brilliant. While only 19 years old, Lofgren played guitar and piano on Neil Young’s After the Gold Rush album in 1970, which developed into a long association with him, contributing to some of Young’s more experimental albums of the late ’70s and ’80s.

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, I imagined a fierce, loving mother and wife dealing with a husband recently home from the insurrection. 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.

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It’s amazing to think this is probably the last record of new songs that’ll feature both Neil Young and David Crosby. Lofgren has been allied with the latter since 1984 and has been knocking about with the godfather of grunge since 1970’s After The Gold Rush. Those, he said in a statement, will range from his band Grin opening for Jimi Hendrix on Lofgren's 19th birthday to joining Crazy Horse and beyond. It’s a serious song from a mother’s point of view, dealing with this guy that she thought she knew and loved, home from an insurrection.He charts their love story, one that sparked in the Empress Motel, Asbury NJ and kept lit down through the decades. According to a press release, “Ain’t The Truth Enough” was written in the wake of the January 6th insurrection and “reckons with the ways that misinformation and demagoguery can tear families apart and silo us in our own realities. Chuck into that an impressive solo catalogue that stretches back 50 years and you know you got the real deal, a hardy buck who has lived and then some.

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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. Although Mountains starts with a couple of strong pop rockers in “Ain’t the Truth Enough” and “Only Tickets Out,” the album is generally populated with midtempo or ballad material, which is a shame, given that Lofgren is capable of writing concise, tough material. 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.My joke is to go to management of both bands and say, 'Guys, I've spent 90 years here - more than 50 with Neil, 50 with Bruce and E Street. More recently, he joined Young and his band Crazy Horse to record Colorado (2019), Barn (’21), and World Record (’22).