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Jackson Browne

winters860 said:
I like Jackson Browne. I don't care who knows it, dammit. For a period there in the seventies, he was really on top of his game. :smoke:

The audio quality is fairly poor, but there's a Dutch radio performance of him and Warren Zevon from '76 that's an outstanding primer for either artist. It's available for free legal download here.
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I really enjoy "The Pretender" and I think it's very well recorded.

Alberto
 
There's an absolutely beautiful performance of "Before the Deluge" on the "No
Nukes" album. An all-time fave of mine. I saw him & David Lindley at the Main Point in Bryn Mawr ('75 I think-geez). He played piano and Lindley sat cross-legged on the floor with his lap guitar. They jammed until 2:30 in the morning. Never forgot it. The man could write.
 
stratmel said:
There's an absolutely beautiful performance of "Before the Deluge" on the "No
Nukes" album. An all-time fave of mine. I saw him & David Lindley at the Main Point in Bryn Mawr ('75 I think-geez). He played piano and Lindley sat cross-legged on the floor with his lap guitar. They jammed until 2:30 in the morning. Never forgot it. The man could write.
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I was just listening to some vinyl with my dad the other week and he pulled out No Nukes and it played that song, it was pretty good, it sounded excellent on my system that I have set up (I'm primarily at my mom's house, this is at my dads apartment) the set up is a Dual 1229 run on an Onkyo TX-21 that is powering a set of OLAs. Excellent!
 
stratmel said:
There's an absolutely beautiful performance of "Before the Deluge" on the "No
Nukes" album. An all-time fave of mine. I saw him & David Lindley at the Main Point in Bryn Mawr ('75 I think-geez). He played piano and Lindley sat cross-legged on the floor with his lap guitar. They jammed until 2:30 in the morning. Never forgot it. The man could write.
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The bootleg tape I have was recorded at Bryn-Mawr and based on the material I thought it was around 73 or so since he did not do any songs from "Late From the Sky".

Did he play a song called "You Don't Want Me-You Just Meat"? (the title says it all...) Pretty funny song but with the lyrics there it won't ever make it to a Best of..... :D
 
IMO, JB is one of the best songwriters out there. I don’t like all his stuff—sometimes it gets a little too precious for me—but his enormous talents can’t be denied. Though it’s certainly not the ultimate in JB poetry, one of my favorite tracks is “Redneck Friend.” Always get a smile on my face when I hear that. :thmbsp: Speaking of Warren Zevon, WZ’s biography, I’ll Sleep When I Dead, does a good job of detailing the relationship between the two legends. It’s often hilarious, often harrowing, and always interesting.
 
Late For The Sky is my favorite, both melodically and lyrically. I love his philosphizing on death, in "For A Dancer:"

"Just do the steps that you've been shown
By everyone you've ever known
Until the dance becomes your very own
No matter how close to yours
Another's steps have grown
In the end there is one dance you'll do alone..."


Even the cover art is cool, based on "Empire of Light" by Magritte. (Album covers have so much more impact on LPs, than on CDs.)


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I still like to spin some Jackson Browne from time to time and would concur that he smithed a number of fine songs. I saw him perform a couple of times and was glad that David Lindley was on board each time.
 
He was huge in the 70's for sure. I kinda lost interest after "Lawyer's in Love" LP but I'm gonna have to dig some others out and give them a new spin. I just have so many that need a proper cleaning.
 
Quint said:
...JB is one of the best songwriters out there. I don’t like all his stuff—sometimes it gets a little too precious for me—but his enormous talents can’t be denied...
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That about sums it up for me. I bought most of his string of 70's albums, but did not replace any of them except Runnin On Empty after the Great Vinyl Purge as I switched to CDs. I remember one of my friend's nicknames for him: "Jackson Downe" for his unremittingly serious and depressing lyrics. ROE was a refreshing departure from that.

He IS a great songwriter though. I heard that his recent solo acoustic session is very good. And I really enjoyed a live concert of his in Tucson around 1979 or so, from around the time ROE came out.
 
SpeakerLabFan said:
Great stuff, always been a big Jackson Browne fan. His new releases were mandatory purchases in the 70's, recommend all of them. I have seen him in concert in the late 70' and the mid 90's - totally blown away by the musicianship of his band in both shows. He wrote some of his great songs at or before age 16 by the way.
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In the '70s and '80s he was backed up by "The Section" who also played with James Taylor, Zevon, Raitt, Linda Ronstadt and others. Their most prominent members were Waddy Wachtel, Leland Sklar, Russell Kunkel (married to the late Nicolette Larsen).
 
Lives in the Balance is a disgrace but sometimes I need to listen to it to appreciate his other work better.
 
Quint said:
IMO, JB is one of the best songwriters out there. I don’t like all his stuff—sometimes it gets a little too precious for me—but his enormous talents can’t be denied. Though it’s certainly not the ultimate in JB poetry, one of my favorite tracks is “Redneck Friend.” Always get a smile on my face when I hear that. :thmbsp: Speaking of Warren Zevon, WZ’s biography, I’ll Sleep When I Dead, does a good job of detailing the relationship between the two legends. It’s often hilarious, often harrowing, and always interesting.
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I am assuming you know what part of the anatomy he is referring to in "Redneck Friend".....:scratch2:

"Rosie" is another song which makes greats use of double entrende.

Listen carefully boys and girls......:music:
 
I used to be a fan of his in the late 70's early 80's... Running On Empty probably my favorite. I saw him open for Tom Petty a couple years ago and he hardly played any of his songs from the 70's. Everyone was bummed out...

He also co-wrote the Eagles - Take it Easy...
 
Wolverine said:
I am assuming you know what part of the anatomy he is referring to in "Redneck Friend".....:scratch2:
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Well, yes . . . yes, I do. :tongue: Much to the chagrin of my wife, though, who hates JB and the entire SoCal '70s scene he was part of. She does like some Zevon, so there's always hope. :yes:
 
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