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What a life: tour America with Bruce Springsteen whenever the spirit moves the latter, then spend some time connecting with your own, adoring fan base. OK, so maybe life isn't quite that simple for Nils Lofgren, but this wonderful concert program, shot in London in 1990, makes perfectly clear how the Boss's ace guitarist (and occasional Neil Young cohort) becomes a prince of classic rock forms on his own time. Backed by a tightly knit bunch of true believers, including brother Tommy Lofgren and Mighty Max Weinberg of the E Street Band, the star explores perfect constructions of pure-pop enigma and deep mystery ("Keith Don't Go"), beautiful anthems of faith ("Delivery Night"), and emotional duality (the mournful yet incendiary "Moon Tears"). Even the occasional cover seems renewed and revitalized through Lofgren's fresh, personal take: the Goffin-King "Going Back," Bill Withers's "Lean on Me," and Lennon-McCartney's "Anytime at All." The audience of Lofgren fanatics hangs on every open-armed gesture their hero makes, and unless one is asleep while watching this document, it's hard not to feel the same way.
--Tom Keogh
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Nils Lofgren is the guitar player's guitar player. The world's most wanted axeman's slung his six-string in the highest company alongside Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen. But out fronting his own five-piece band is where this live wire's at his most dangerous and this storming set catches Nils at his finest. Special appearances by Bruce Springsteen and Ringo Starr. Songs: Valentine, Secrets in the Street, Keith Don't Go, Goin' Back, Rock 'N' Roll Crook, Moon Tears, Delivery Night, Silver Lining, New Holes in Old Shoes, The Sun Hasn't Set, Walking Nerve, Code of the Road, Any Time at All, No Mercy, Shine Silently, Lean on Me, See What Love Can Do, I Came to Dance.
