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Details Lead Performance: Grin; Genre: Reissues

Before his trampoline-propelled solo career — and way before the E Street Band — Lofgren fronted this spark plug of a group. On The Very Best of Grin Featuring Nils Lofgren, the first CD overview of their brief career, strikes a balance between Lofgren's bashful-kid ballads and his frisky-gunslinger rock & roll, with the genuinely teenage Lofgren conveying both the pain and passion of adolescence. Cocky rock that's still warm and lovable — it's enough to make anyone grin. A

Originally posted Jun 11, 1999 Published in issue #489 Jun 11, 1999 Order article reprints

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