Nils Lofgren – “No Mercy” And “Keith Don’t Go”

I don’t know a lot from Nils Lofgren, just two songs really, “No Mercy” and “Keith Don’t Go”.

Nils Lofgren, who has had a long solo career, also worked with Neil Young in the Seventies, as well as playing in Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band for 25 years.

But I didn’t know that until just now…

Actually I first got to know his 1979 track “No Mercy” (from the album “Nils”) a year or so later through a band I used to write some songs with in Bamberg, Germany, who played it.

I still remember hearing it the first time crammed into a tiny cellar with just enough room for the band, their equipment and a couple of other people, i.e. right up close!

Here it is, “No Mercy”, recorded in 1979 (with lyric subtitles in German, how fitting):

And here is a live version of “No Mercy” twelve years later on German television in 1991:

The other Nils Lofgren track I am familiar with actually came out a year earlier in 1978.

It’s from his fourth album “Night After Night”, and is called “Keith Don’t Go” (Keith being Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones):

Nils Lofgren also plays this one on the acoustic guitar, so here is “Keith Don’t Go” unplugged:

Which do YOU think sounds better, electric or acoustic?

Paul

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