Nils Lofgren is an artist I have admired for many years. After all, who could fail to admire a musician good enough to feature as part of Crazy Horse, the E-Street Band and Ringo Starr's All Starr Band?
Having bought the first two Grin albums on vinyl followed in due course by the solo album 'Cry Tough', I then somehow lost touch with his recorded output.
So, this box set is an ideal addition to my collection featuring as it does, seven discs of tracks covering the full career of Nils Lofgren to date. Additionally, and this may be of more interest to those who already own all of his recordings, there are two discs of rare and unreleased tracks and a DVD of various live performances.To round the whole thing off there is also a fine hard backed book which has been written by Nils himself. This combines biographical information and details about all of the tracks featured in the set as well as a number of very nice photographs.
If listening to this set does not convince you of the obvious vocal and musical talents of Nils Lofgren, then nothing will.
Finally, having missed seeing Nils live at Sage, Gateshead earlier in the year, I now have a ticket to see him even closer to home at Whitley Bay Playhouse in November.
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