Jackson Browne: The Pretender
Barbara Charone, Sounds, 13 November 1976
JACKSON BROWNE's heart lies bleedin' within the grooves and between the lines of this, his fourth album. These aren't the wimpish tales of MOR anguish normally associated with lightweight west coast pap.
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