Cindy Mizelle added the woman’s voice with great soul and power here) I felt inspired and a day later this special song was done. I learned a long time ago to give myself permission to get down in whatever band I’m in, whatever role I have. Ain't the Truth Enough," another Bruce-like number, opens the album with the emotional reach that marks the E Streeter's best work. Lofgren will accompany Mountains with Rockality, a new series of 30-40-minute videos - also debuting July 21 and soldat nilslofgren. I was trying to hook in the spirit of Charlie to help me through this uncomfortable rage, angst, sadness, and pissed off-ness.

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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. 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. 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.

It's all over the place," says Lofgren, who wrote and recorded Mountains at his home in Scottsdale, Arizona, with his regular engineer aid Jamison Weddle and players such as bassist Kevin McCormick, drummer Andy Newmark and backingsinger Cindy Mizelle. 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. That Rainbow Theatre 1973 show he just released, which you obviously play on, is pretty sensational. I’m honored to be back playing and recording with them, and excited for another chapter, whatever it is. From opening for Jimi Hendrix on my 19th birthday with Grin, knocking on Jimi’s trailer and getting to speak with him and thank him for inspiring me to be a professional rocker, back to my early high school drop-out, 17-year-old runaway in Greenwich Village days, walking in on Neil Young and Crazy Horse in D.

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It was this fury of, “I’m so disgusted that he’s gone that I’m not going to get upset or cry anymore” And then by the end of the song, I’m crying. 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. We spoke with Lofgren about the creation of Mountains, the inspiration behind many of the songs, his ongoing world tour with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, and his hopes for a tour with Neil Young and Crazy Horse. 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. 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.And because of the subject matter, I thought it should have a little heavy-metal approach with some more bombastic, harsh sounds and guitar. David and Amy got to be pretty close because they were really good on Twitter and really insightful, sticking up for what’s right, and giving people shit when they needed it. 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.