Tuff Stuff!

Tuff Stuff! The Best of the All-Madden Team Band

Format	Release Date	Country of Origin	Label	Cat No
CD	Nov 2001	US	Vision Music	VMCD 1010

A collection of tracks used for the All-Madden Team Band. Of the 34 tracks on the album quite a number have been heard before. Lions Wake, Tough Trails and A Lefty first appeared on the movie soundtrack Everybreath and Dream is found as a tag to the live Some Must Dream on Acoustic Live.

1	SPEED KILLS	03.10	(with John Madden)
2	SPEED TAG	00:10	(with John Madden)
3	GUNNER	03:04
4	PEOPLE FUNK	01:14
5	OLD DOUBLE P	01:23	(withJohn Madden)
6	WINDY	02:03
7	WE GOT GUYS	01:06	(withJohn Madden)
8	PABLO BLUES	02:55
9	TEXAS	01:00
10	SWAMP	02:50
11	HARD TIMES	01:02
12	I'M BUYING	02:52
13	TRIED AND TRUE	01:57	(tribute to Walter Payton)
14	THE WIND	04:27
15	WHAT ABOUT IT	01:17
16	SILVER SWING	02:57
17	LIONS WAKE	03:42
18	LIONS WAKE	00:34	(Jam)
19	MIDNIGHT STEEL	02:55
20	TAJ BLUES	02:49
21	TOUGH TRAILS	03:17
22	SQUEEZE BOX	00:42
23	FUNK ONE	02:42
24	COUNTRY	01:02
25	SLINK	00:52
26	DREAM	02:31
27	STALKER BLUES	03:29
28	HARMONICS	00:43
29	A LEFTY	05:37
30	SAD WALK	00:43
31	ANGEL SHAKE	02:53
32	SPEED KILLS	03:10	(Instrumental)
33	SPEED TAG	00:10	(Instrumental)
34	OLD DOUBLE P	01:23	(Instrumental)
		72:41

All songs composed by Nils Lofgren

Nils Lofgren: guitars, vocals, pedal steel, accordion, keyboards

Drums: Andy Newmark, Timm Biery, Denny Fongheiser
Bass: Wade MAtthews, Nils Lofgren, Roger Greenawait
Saxophone: Bruce Swaim, Ron Holloway, Al Williams III
Harmonica: Mark Wenner

Engineers: Billy Brady, Timm Biery, Ron Freeland, Neal Avron, Billy Wolf, Otto D'Agnolo, Jamison Weddle, Roger Greenawait

Mastering: Billy Wolf, Wolf Productions

Review: Whoever, or whatever, The All-Madden Team Band is the album Tuff Stuff is absolutely brilliant. As 2001 closes it has been a bumper year for Nils Lofgren music. Break Away Angel knocked me dead and the UK tour was stupendous. To have this album released at the same time is a bonus that's heaven sent. Long and short tracks, voice-overs, vocals, acoustic, electric, rock, blues - it has everything. Sure its a bit of an odd ball in that unlike any other Nils album there's no plot to it. It's just a collection of tracks with just one or two linking together but somehow it works. Track 8, Pablo Blues, has gone straight into my personal Top 10 Nils' tracks! The rather ironic I'm Buying is certainly a highlight but I have always liked instrumentals and yet up to this point instrumentals have not available. Apart from the rare and wonderful Crystal Ball (a collaboration with Sting in the 80's) and the three tracks lifted from Every Breath that's it for non-vocal tracks. this album has filled the void magnificently. Tuff Stuff! is an album I would recommend highly for any music lover but for a Nils Lofgren fan just go out and buy it!

Available from www.cdstreet.com

A Web Review:

Nils Lofgren Releases Album With John Madden
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E Street Band guitarist Nils Lofgren has released an album through his nilslofgren.com website with football commentator John Madden. The album, Tuff Stuff! The Best Of The All-Madden Team Band, features 34 tracks, ranging in length from nine seconds to five minutes and 39 seconds, many of which were used by Madden during his annual All-Madden Team football specials.

We asked Lofgren how the album came to be: "I've been doing original rock for him for almost a decade. And you can't really hear it, 'cause they do have to talk over it, and I had over an hour of it, and he let me put it out as an instrumental record. He also included some 'Madden-isms' in some of the tracks, some of his favorite expressions. So it's really kind of a really ballsy rockin' record that's out on my website."