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Laura Nyro: Laura's London Triumph

Live Review by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 13 February 1971

Laura Nyro/Jackson Browne: Royal Festival Hall, London ...

Jackson's Song For Everyman

Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 17 November 1973

JACKSON Browne arrived half an hour late. He'd been figuring out how to repair the plumbing at his house, and had finally succeeded in getting ...

Jackson Browne: I'm Alive

Review by Mick Houghton, MOJO, December 1993

HAS TIME STOOD STILL? Fifteen years on and Jackson Browne's running on empty again. He's out of love yet surviving, holding himself together but now ...

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Jackson Browne (1993)

Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages audio, 18 October 1993

On songwriting – the political versus the personal – and the making of his album I'm Alive; his brushes with movie soundtrack songwriting and his love of pop music; on the rise of country rock; the Ash Grove and Troubadour scenes; David Geffen; the notorious Elektra Ranch and the singer songwriter movement.

File format: mp3 File size: 70.9mb Interview length: 1h 13' 51'; sound quality: **** (first 10 minutes slightly noisy)

Jackson Browne (2014)

Interview by Adam Sweeting, Rock's Backpages audio, November 2014

The singer/songwriter talks about his appreciation of the tribute album Looking Into You; on Los Angeles then and now — the cheap rents, and sharing with JD Souther and Glenn Frey, and the emergence of country rock; his new album Standing In The Breach, and avoiding writing political songs; modern American politics, school massacres and the NRA; the role of David Geffen, and his memories of his father.

File format: mp3; file size: 45.3mb, interview length: 47' 13" sound quality: ****

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Los Angeles: The Vanishing Underground

Report by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 16 February 1967

LOS ANGELES — Sunset Strip is dead. ...

The Billy James Underground

Report by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 3 August 1967

HE CRUISES along the Freeway out of Los Angeles in an open Rolls, the kind that used to have upholstery and windows. His young son ...

Hollywood Underground

Column by Judith Sims, TeenSet, September 1967

HOWDY, hip happies! I'm in a good mood, in case you couldn’t guess from that kray-zee salutation! Why am I in a good mood? You ...

Jackson Browne: Jackson Browne

Review by Bud Scoppa, Rolling Stone, 2 March 1972

IT'S NOT OFTEN that a single album is sufficient to place a new performer among the first rank of recording artists. Jackson Browne's long-awaited debut ...

Jackson Browne: Jackson Browne (Asylum)

Review by Jeff Walker, Phonograph Record, April 1972

IT HAS TAKEN a long time for a whole album of Jackson Browne's music, actually sung and played by Jackson Browne, to be made and ...

Jackson Browne: Vanishing Minstrel

Profile and Interview by Danny Holloway, New Musical Express, 20 May 1972

JACKSON BROWNE is no new name to pop. He's been here all the time. He's one of those guys who used to just appear at ...

Jackson Browne: Jackson Browne

Review by Dave Marsh, Creem, June 1972

MYTHICALLY, JACKSON BROWNE emerged from an article in Cheetah (the magazine of rock, when Crawdaddy! was the 'zine of roll) in late '67 or early ...

Jackson Browne: in concert at McCabe's

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Phonograph Record, September 1973

AT ONE POINT in his show, Jackson Browne told his audience in the packed but uncramped performance room of McCabe's Guitar Shop that he much ...

Jackson Browne, Phillip Goodhand-Tait: Roxy, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 17 November 1973

LOS ANGELES: It would be nice to be able to report in true nationalistic spirit that Phillip Goodhand-Tait swept the audience off their feet in ...

Jackson Browne: The Roxy, Los Angeles

Live Review by Steven Rosen, Sounds, 17 November 1973

JACKSON BROWNE possesses a unique facility known as credibility. Whether he's accompanying himself solely with an acoustic guitar or being backed with electric guitar and ...

Jackson Browne: Such a Clever Innocence

Interview by David Rensin, Crawdaddy!, January 1974

I've been out walking,I don't do that much talking These days.These days I seem to think a lot About the things that I forgot to ...

Jackson Browne, Survivor

Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 12 January 1974

AT NIGHT we sit on the verandah, Myrna and I, watching the bobbing lights of the yachts in the harbour below as the fireflies endlessly ...

Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt: Berkeley Community Theater, Berkeley CA

Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 26 September 1974

Browne-Raitt concert lifts the usual to new heights ...

Jackson Browne: Late for the Sky (Asylum)

Review by Bud Scoppa, Phonograph Record, December 1974

"IT’S ONLY a pop record – I know that," someone said to me about Late for the Sky. "So why does it affect me strongly?" ...

Jackson Browne: Late for the Sky (Asylum)

Review by Wayne Robins, Creem, January 1975

WHAT'S MADE Jackson Browne more acceptable than most other singer-songwriters is the likelihood that he's the Joni Mitchell for teenage boys. ...

Jackson Browne

Profile and Interview by Steve Turner, unpublished, for NME, 1976

He has one of those haircuts favoured by Americans not yet accustomed to the artistry of male hair-styling: shiny, lank and equal length all over. ...

Jackson Browne, Winning

Interview by Mitchell Cohen, Phonograph Record, November 1976

JACKSON BROWNE sat in a locker room beneath a domed hall at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. It had been a particularly successful college ...

Jackson Browne: The Pretender (Asylum 7E-1079)

Review by Sam Sutherland, Phonograph Record, November 1976

JACKSON BROWNE'S fourth and best album draws its power from a stunning tension of opposites: he continues to revise and refine many of the same ...

Jackson Browne: The Pretender

Review by 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 ...

Jackson Browne: The Pretender (Asylum K53048)

Review by Rosalind Russell, Record Mirror, 13 November 1976

IF YOU'RE into anything a little deeper than pop get this album. ...

Jackson Browne: The Pretender (Asylum)

Review by Colin Irwin, Melody Maker, 13 November 1976

THE CHOICE of Jackson Browne's classic 'Late For The Sky', with all its mystique and aura, as soundtrack to the movie Taxi Driver, was no ...

Jackson Browne These Days…

Interview by Colin Irwin, Melody Maker, 11 December 1976

The American singer/songwriter – currently touring Britain – who has made his name by writing constantly demanding, complex and mysterious songs, talks to COLIN IRWIN ...

Jackson Browne, Warren Zevon: Apollo, Glasgow

Live Review by Colin Irwin, Melody Maker, 11 December 1976

Jackson: after the deluge ...

The Road And The Sky

Interview by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 11 December 1976

An interview with JACKSON BROWNE by BARBARA CHARONE ...

Where The Road Meets The Sky

Live Review by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 11 December 1976

Jackson Brown: Apollo, Glasgow ...

We are all on tour: Are you prepared for The Pretender — Jackson Browne?

Special Feature by Paul Nelson, Rolling Stone, 16 December 1976

HOMBRE — I loved that movie. I dig Paul Newman. I love the way he smashed that shot glass into that guy's face. Richard Boone ...

Jackson Browne, Warren Zevon: New Victoria Theatre, London

Live Review by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 25 December 1976

WARREN ZEVON hits the stage an hour and five minutes late. This is not without significance. ...

Jackson Browne: The Pretender (Asylum 7E-1079)

Review by Dave Marsh, Rolling Stone, 27 January 1977

Stalking the great Pretender Cycles of uncertainty ...

Jackson Browne's Two-Year Autobiography

Profile by Kris Nicholson, Circus, 14 February 1977

The Pretender Is Dreamy and Calculated ...

Jackson Browne: Running On Empty (Asylum)**

Review by 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 ...

David Lindley: Stringing Together an Aesthetic Sound

Profile and Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 1 January 1978

  LOS ANGELES folkies fondly remember David Lindley as the perennial winner of the Topanga banjo-fiddle contest. Some rock fans, among them Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page ...

Jackson Browne Thrives on the Endless Road

Profile and Interview by Wesley Strick, Circus, 2 March 1978

LATE LAST summer, Jackson Browne sipped a glass of Burgundy backstage and said, "I'm touring with the Section, who are the best studio players in ...

Jackson Browne: This Wheel's on Fire

Interview by Paul Nelson, Rolling Stone, 9 March 1978

LIKE MOST good artists, Jackson Browne is capable of doing more than one thing at a time, so it's no surprise that Running on Empty, ...

Lowell George: Festive Wake for an Enigma

Report and Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 4 August 1979

"I FEEL LIKE I'm in an old MGM photo," cracked Bonnie Raitt as she and the other participants in tonight's "Tribute to Lowell George" concert ...

"Tribute to Lowell George" — Little Feat, Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt, Bonnie Raitt et al: Forum, Inglewood CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 6 August 1979

Concert Tribute to Lowell George ...

Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt et al: Lowell George Benefit Concert, The Forum, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Mark Williams, Melody Maker, 11 August 1979

IT'S IRONIC that Little Feat were never adjudged sufficiently commercial to have headlined a concert at Los Angeles' massive Forum, since the place was bursting ...

Jackson Browne: On love, marriage and the girl in his songs

Interview by Paul Nelson, Rolling Stone, 7 August 1980

BECAUSE JACKSON Browne and his music seem to occupy a special place among Rolling Stone readers, a brief introductory note should suffice. Why Browne is ...

Ramblin’ on Empty

Interview by Richard Cook, New Musical Express, 31 July 1982

RICHARD COOK meets JACKSON BROWNE, the California dreamer who spends his time being sensitive — especially when he gets heckled. Post-Woodstock ...

Jackson Browne: Lawyers In Love (Asylum)

Review by Richard Cook, New Musical Express, 20 August 1983

JACKSON BROWNE is beginning to remind me of Jack Lemmon in The China Syndrome or Missing: a secure and successful man provoked into action traitorous ...

Billy James on Columbia, Elektra and the L.A. music industry

Interview by Richie Unterberger, unpublished, 1986

Author’s note: This was based around one of the first significant historical interviews I did. The essay wasn't published anywhere, just typed out for a ...

Jackson Browne

Profile and Interview by Steve Turner, Q, 1986

Jackson Browne used to hang his head and weep when he considered the folly of Man. These days he doesn’t bother. These days he gets ...

Jackson Browne: Lives In The Balance (Asylum EKT 31)*****

Review by Hugh Fielder, Sounds, 8 March 1986

BROWNE SUGAR ...

Jackson Browne: Lives In The Balance (Asylum)

Review by Jon Young, Musician, May 1986

JACKSON BROWNE is mad as hell. He's also a gentleman, which removes the sting from his expressions of outrage on Lives In The Balance. Although ...

U2, Sting et al: Amnesty International, Conspiracy of Hope Benefit, Cow Palace, San Francisco CA

Live Review by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 17 July 1986

Amnesty's rock & roll roadshow All-star lineup gives America the message ...

Heartache Out, Protest In: Jackson Browne

Report and Interview by Steve Turner, The Sunday Times, 5 October 1986

"Doesn’t he look young!" gasped a woman behind me as Jackson Browne strolled on stage to kick off his six-date London run which ends tonight. ...

Jackson Browne: Hammersmith Odeon, London

Live Review by Gavin Martin, New Musical Express, 11 October 1986

A SUITABLY large number of Americans turn out to sample Jackson Browne's Californian confessional. Sunshine, bleeding hearts, airbrushed emotions, existentialist romances lost in the night ...

Jackson Browne: "A Dixie Cup of Nuclear Waste Could Kill the Planet"

Interview by Steve Turner, Q, January 1987

Jackson Browne used to hang his head and weep when he considered the folly of Man. These days he doesn't bother. These days he gets ...

Life Lessons: Bonnie Raitt and Jackson Browne

Interview by Mark Rowland, Musician, August 1989

Jackson Browne and Bonnie Raitt find hope in a hard world. ...

Jackson Browne: The Return of the Pretender

Interview by Rob Tannenbaum, GQ, November 1993

The politics on Jackson Browne's new album are strictly interpersonal. ...

Jackson Browne: Looking East

Review by Richard Cook, MOJO, March 1996

CLOSE TO a quarter-century after his debut, Jackson Browne still can't settle down. His love life might not bother him the way it once did ...

Jackson Browne: The Next Voice You Hear — The Best Of… (Elektra)

Interview by Andy Gill, MOJO, November 1997

Jackson Browne gives a track by track rundown to Andy Gill ...

Jackson Browne: For Everyman

Review by Anthony DeCurtis, Rolling Stone, 5 August 1999

THE TITLE TRACK of Jackson Browne's second album, For Everyman, was a response to the escapist vision of Crosby, Stills and Nash's 'Wooden Ships'. As ...

The Eagles/Jackson Browne/Linda Ronstadt: Live at Staples Center, Los Angeles

Live Review by Erik Himmelsbach, Rolling Stone, 17 February 2000

THE KINGS of Country Rock have been on ice for the better part of two decades. Still, they earned most of their reported $7 million ...

Jackson Browne and Bonnie Raitt: Rock for Java

Live Review by Charles Bermant, Rolling Stone, 4 June 2001

BACK IN THE 1970s, when Jackson Browne and Bonnie Raitt became notorious for spearheading benefit concerts, the issues were, well, more clear cut: Vote for ...

Jackson Browne: Late For The Sky

Retrospective by Jaan Uhelszki, MOJO, October 2002

SINGER-SONGWRITER Jackson Browne delved deep into his soul for his third album, Late For The Sky. ...

Jackson Browne: The Naked Ride Home

Review by James Hunter, Rolling Stone, 17 October 2002

FROM THE COOL romanticism of 1993's I'm Alive to the textured ruminations of 1996's Looking East, Jackson Browne has explored, with a sense of flash ...

Jackson Browne: The Naked Ride Home

Review and Interview by Johnny Black, MOJO, November 2002

WHILE MOST of his coked-out Californian contemporaries were mapping every last detail of the geography of their navels, endlessly rhyming "illusion" with "confusion" for consumption ...

Jackson Browne: A Once and Future Fan's Notes

Retrospective by Bud Scoppa, Paste, 1 June 2004

ON THE OCCASION of Jackson Browne's 2004 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Rhino Records has assembled The Very Best of Jackson ...

Play It as It Lays: David Geffen and Asylum Records

Book Excerpt by Barney Hoskyns, 'Hotel California' (4th Estate), 2005

This is an excerpt from Barney Hoskyns'  Hotel California: Singer-Songwriters & Cocaine Cowboys in the L.A. Canyons (Fourth Estate, 2005) ...

School of Rock Study Guide: Singer-Songwriters

Guide by Barney Hoskyns, iTunes, October 2008

"WHERE DO YOU have left to go but in?" It was a question posed by Joni Mitchell, the brilliant Canadian blonde who specialized in intensely ...

Jackson Browne: Time The Conqueror

Review by James Hunter, Rolling Stone, 2 October 2008

AFTER SPENDING the late part of last year stumping for John Edwards, Jackson Browne continues to address the frustration, outrage and heartbreak over the Bush ...

Jackson Browne: Royal Albert Hall, London **

Live Review by Nick Hasted, The Independent, 15 April 2009

THE GREY beard of experience Jackson Browne wore on the sleeve of his last album, Time the Conqueror, is gone. He looks the same lean, ...

Jackson Browne & David Lindley: Love Is Strange

Review and Interview by Bud Scoppa, Uncut, July 2010

Reunited with his '70s musical Mr Fixit, Browne delivers a great career-spanning live set — his best album in years. ...

Jackson Browne: Album By Album

Retrospective by Bud Scoppa, Uncut, August 2010

"MUSIC HAS AN impact because a lot of people experience it at the same time, and that can't happen exactly the same way again " ...

Jackson Browne: Cain Park, Cleveland

Live Review by Holly Gleason, No Depression, 20 August 2012

FOR JACKSON BROWNE, like James Taylor, a summer stop in Cleveland, Ohio is like the swallows returning to Capistrano. Throughout the '70s, the socially conscious ...

Jackson Browne: Standing in the Breach

Review by Peter Stone Brown, CounterPunch, 21 October 2014

IN 1974, JACKSON BROWNE released his third album, his masterpiece Late For The Sky, a record that was brilliantly constructed in every way from the ...

Jackson Browne: Chronicling the Daze Between Washington and Wall Street

Review by Peter Stone Brown, CounterPunch, 21 October 2014

IN 1974, JACKSON Browne released his third album, his masterpiece Late For The Sky, a record that was brilliantly constructed in every way from the ...

Jackson Browne: Standing In The Breach

Review by Holly Gleason, Paste, 28 October 2014

"IT'S NEVER BEEN THAT HARD to buy a gun/Now they'll sell a Glock 19 to just about anyone," muses Jackson Browne midway through 'The Long ...

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