Jackson Browne: Running On Empty (Asylum)**
Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 24 December 1977
EVER BEEN trapped with no hope of escape by the most unmitigated bore you've ever met? You recite the lyrics to 'Sweet Jane' backwards, you surreptitiously check to see if your pulse is still going, you wind up being obnoxious and as rude as you possibly can, and it still makes no difference.
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