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Jackson Browne: Chronicling the Daze Between Washington and Wall Street

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 first note to the last. It was an album that proved Browne was a master of chronicling the desolate intricacies of lost romance, of sorrow and death and always with an eye on what was going on on the planet as the prophetic apocalyptic closing track 'Before the Deluge', a song that in every way predicted what is going on right now revealed.

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