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How Nils Lofgren Almost Became the Next Big Thing

Mitchell Cohen, Music Aficionado, 2019

THE ADVERTISEMENT for Grin, the first album that positioned Nils Lofgren front-and-center in his own band, said "until recently, only insiders could be absolutely certain that there really was a Nils Lofgren." The implication being that the person whose name appeared on the credits of Neil Young's After the Gold Rush and the debut album by Crazy Horse was, possibly, fictional.

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