Nils Lofgren on his new album with Ringo Starr, Neil Young and late David Crosby

By editorial board on January 10, 2024

 Known for his work as a member of Neil Young’s Crazy Horse and Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, Lofgren was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014 as part of the latter group

When Nils Lofgren was 18, Neil Young asked him to play guitar and piano on his 1970 album, After the Gold Rush. The singer, songwriter, and guitarist had already been making some noise with his band Grin around the Washington, D.C. area and began doing double duty with Crazy Horse, appearing on the band’s self-titled 1971 debut.

Nearly 50 years after his debut in Crazy Horse, Lofgren joined the band again in 2018, along with Young, for their 2019 album Colorado, and follow-up, Barn, in 2021. In 2023, the band released 'All Roads Lead Home', under the moniker Molina, Talbot, Lofgren, and Young. (Full interview HERE)

 

His new album will feature many high-profile collaborations, including Young, the late David Crosby, the Howard Gospel Choir, Cindy Mizelle, Ron Carter and Ringo Starr.All Roads Lead Home CD

Lofgren has just shared the first single from Mountains, ‘Ain’t the Truth Enough’, featuring the former Beatles drummer. In a press release, the musician explained that the song 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.”

Nils plays lap steel, organ, vibraphone, and sings, Ringo drums, Kevin McCormick plays bass, and, as mentioned, Cindy Mizelle adds vocal harmonies to the song. Listen to "Ain't The Truth Enough," and check out the artwork and tracklist for Mountains below.

In addition to the album announcement, Nils Lofgren has also launched his "Rockality" video series today, a collection of 30-40 minute videos in which Nils shares stories from his decades-long tenure in the music world. Episodes will be available for purchase on his website.

“One early desert morning, strong coffee in hand, I tuned my Martin D-35 acoustic gifted to me by the great James Caan (bless you Jimmy) to an open G and said, ‘Write!’ Soon the title and main riff were coming through me… “Ain’t the truth enough!”

“Lucky me! 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,” he added.

“(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. Not mean-spirited; all truth, harsh reality.”

Recently the drummer admitted he needed George Harrison’s help to sound like a genius on one of his signature solo songs.

Still, Ringo was brutally honest about his standing in The Beatles — the bottom of the creative totem pole. He handled many things with humor and humility, but as Michael Seth Starr writes in With a Little Help, Ringo might have been slightly embarrassed about his place in the band.  

“It can get you down, not being creative. You know people are thinking you’re not the creative one. But out of four people, you wouldn’t expect them all to be creative, would you? Fifty percent is enough. Think of all the groups, good groups, who can’t write anything at all.

[I’d] love to be able to, of course. It’s a bit of a bind when I realize I can’t. I’ve got a piano, but I can’t play it, really. I often get a feeling. I just feel like writing a lovely song today, but I go, and I can’t. I don’t know how to.

“I do sometimes feel out of it, sitting there on the drums, only playing what they tell me to play. Often when other drummers of groups say to me that was great, that bit, I know the others have usually told me what to do, though I’ve got the credit.”

 

 

 

 

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