Backing Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen, Nils Lofgren established his place as the consummate professional musician, the sort of sideman whose presence nearly guaranteed something compelling. On the ...

During a normal year, Nils Lofgren would spend some time on the road playing music – on his own, perhaps, or as part of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, with which he’s a member of the Rock and Roll ...

Over the course of 50 years, Nils Lofgren has done a lot of recording — on his own, with his band Grin and with Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen. Not surprisingly there are some “leftovers” in the ...

Though he’s had an estimable career as a singer-songwriter, guitarist and member of the ’70s band, Grin, Nils Lofgren may be best known as one of the coolest session players and sidemen of the rock ...

In 1978, Nils Lofgren was a well-regarded but vaguely underperforming singer and guitarist. His former band, Grin, had been a disappointment, and he was in between the gigs that would come to define ...

In the past three years, Nils Lofgren, the guitarist in Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band for nearly 35 years, has released a career-spanning, 10-disc/DVD box set of his solo work and his first solo ...

WASHINGTON — Imagine growing up in the D.C. area, finding a surprise mentor in Neil Young in Georgetown and being tapped by Bruce Springsteen to join the E Street Band. That’s the story of Nils ...

The recent announcement that the E Street Band's Nils Lofgren would be stepping in to play guitar with Neil Young for the upcoming Crazy Horse gigs adds another chapter to a long-running working ...

Guitarist Nils Lofgren deserves all kinds of credit and praise for his noble work as a sideman with Bruce Springsteen and Neil Young — two giants of song. But Lofgren also should be showered with some ...

Nils Lofgren has made his bones as a sideman, lending six-string fire to Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen. If that’s not indication enough of his skills, there’s the rumor that the Rolling Stones ...