Blue with Lou

"Tracking live in his home studio with drummer Andy Newmark and bassist Kevin McCormick, Lofgren achieves a lean, sinewy sound that gives the tight group plenty of room to roam, and they occasionally do, stretching out the title track to seven minutes and "Cut Him Up" to six. Such a concentration on a muscular band dynamic naturally moves Blue with Lou closer to Lofgren's camp than Reed's, but the latter's DNA still shines through in both the rhymes and rhythms".

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"Bruce Springsteen and Neil Young collaborator, Nils Lofgren's Blue With Lou is a career high that frequently recalls his early work with Grin, while rising to new, majestic heights ... Were Blue With Lou a baseball, it'd be out of the park, its destination unknown, as it continues its journey deep into the star-filled sky, high above the houses, its final destination unknown but surely somewhere great".

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"De fleste kender måske Nils Lofgren som sideman for Neil Young og især for Bruce Springsteen i E Street Band. Men efter otte års solo-pause er Blue With Lou dels en påmindelse om at Lofgren selv har (haft) en habil solokarriere kørende, og ikke mindst, at han er en guitarist, der kan meget mere, end de kendte bosser giver plads til ... På dette album støver han bl.a. et 40 år gammelt samarbejde med Lou Reed af. Lofgren havde 13 sange med so-so tekster - Reed manglede melodier. Seks af resultaterne blev præsenteret på de tos efterfølgende albums (...) men fem har ikke set dagens lys før nu ... Lofgren [lyder] sulten, og hans lille tætte gruppe er godt tændt op undervejs på et album, der både (...) når omkring funk, pop, gospel, country og kantet rock ".

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