Jackson Browne: Late for the Sky (Asylum)
Bud Scoppa, Phonograph Record, December 1974
"ITS ONLY a pop record I know that," someone said to me about Late for the Sky. "So why does it affect me strongly?" It is only a pop record , but at the same time it aspires to be much more.
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