Nils Lofgren
Much admired by his contemporaries as one of rock's most enlightened and
innovative guitar stylists, Nils Lofgren is most commonly identified by his work
alongside Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen, but he also made a considerable mark
as an artist in his own right. Born in America to Swedish-Italian parents,
Lofgren initially took up playing accordion when he was five. He subsequently
studied classical music and jazz but, after taking up guitar, he formed the band
Grin, who played regularly in the Washington DC area. A chance meeting with Neil
Young led to an invitation to Califo...
