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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 ...
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 ...
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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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)
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Los Angeles: The Vanishing Underground
Report by Richard Goldstein, Village Voice, The, 16 February 1967
LOS ANGELES — Sunset Strip is dead. ...
Report by Richard Goldstein, Village Voice, The, 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 ...
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: 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. ...
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. ...
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 ...
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)
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 ...
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 ...
Interview by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 11 December 1976
An interview with JACKSON BROWNE by BARBARA CHARONE ...
Live Review by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 11 December 1976
Jackson Brown: Apollo, Glasgow ...
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: 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 ...
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 ...
Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 6 August 1979
Concert Tribute to Lowell George ...
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 ...
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 ...
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)
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, 1 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, Sunday Times, The, 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. ...
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 ...
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 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: Royal Albert Hall, London **
Live Review by Nick Hasted, Independent, The, 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: 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 ...
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