Stereo Embers The Podcast 0089: Nils Lofgren (The E Street Band, Crazy Horse)

“When Lou Reed Calls At 4:30 AM And Tells You To Get A Pen…You Get A Pen”

There’s no other option. And that’s exactly what happened to Nils Lofgren years ago when the legendary singer/songwriter phoned him to tell him he’d written lyrics for some of Lofgren’s compositions. While the fruits of that early morning collaboration remained dormant for decades, Lofgren’s new album Blue With Lou brings five of them to light to sit alongside some of Lofgren’s newer compositions. In this conversation the Chicago-born musician talks to Alex about his fifty year career in rock and roll. They chat about punk rock, basketball, the Velvet Underground, Pink, gymnastics and the joys of on-stage improvisation.