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Clyde Jackson Browne (born October 9, 1948) is an American musician, singer,
songwriter, and political activist who has sold over 18 million records in the
United States.
Emerging as a precocious teenage songwriter in mid-1960s Los Angeles, he
experienced his first successes writing songs for others, writing "These Days"
as a 16-year-old; the song became a minor hit for the German singer and Andy
Warhol protégé Nico in 1967. He also wrote several songs for fellow Southern
California bands the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, of which he was briefly a member
in 1966, and the Eagles, the latter of whom had their first US Billboard Top
40 hit in 1972 with the Browne co-written song "Take It Easy".
Encouraged by his successes writing songs for others, Browne released his
self-titled debut album in 1972, which spawned two Top 40 hits of his own,
"Doctor, My Eyes" and "Rock Me on the Water". For his debut album, as well as
for the next several albums and concert tours, Browne started working closely
with the Section, a prolific session band that also worked with a variety of
other prominent singer-songwriters at the time. His second album, For
Everyman, was released in 1973, and while it lacked an enduring single, has
been retrospectively assessed as some of his best work, appearing highly on
several "Best Album of All Time" lists. His third album, Late for the Sky, was
his most successful to that point, peaking at number 14 on the US Billboard
200 album chart. His fourth album, The Pretender, continued the pattern of
each album topping the previous by peaking at number 5 on the album chart, and
spawned the hit singles "Here Come Those Tears Again" and "The Pretender".
It would be the 1977 album Running on Empty, however, that would become his
signature work, peaking at number 3 on the album chart, and remaining there
for over a year. Both a live album and a concept album, the songs on the album
explore the themes of life as a touring musician, and the album was recorded
both on stage, and in places touring musicians spend time when not playing,
such as hotel rooms, backstage, and in one case on a moving tour bus. The
album produced two Top 40 singles, "Running on Empty" and "The Load-Out/Stay",
and many of the other tracks became popular radio hits on the AOR format.
Successful albums continued through the 1980s, including the 1980 album Hold
Out, his only number 1 album, the non-album single "Somebody's Baby", which
was used in the film Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and 1983's Lawyers in Love,
which included the hit single "Tender Is the Night". In 1986, he released
Lives in the Balance, which had several radio hits and included the
introspective "In the Shape of a Heart", which was inspired by the suicide of
his first wife a decade prior. His string of hit albums came to an end at that
point, as his next several albums failed to produce a gold or platinum RIAA
rating.
He released two compilation albums, The Next Voice You Hear: The Best of
Jackson Browne in 1997, and The Very Best of Jackson Browne, released in
conjunction with his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction in 2004. His most
recent studio album is 2021's Downhill from Everywhere, the follow-up to
2014's Standing in the Breach, which included the first fully realized version
of his song "The Birds of St. Marks", a song he had written at age 18. In
2015, Rolling Stone ranked him as 37th in its list of the "100 Greatest
Songwriters of All Time".
Source:
Wikipedia
Official links:
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Albums available to download (MP3 320k):
Release date: 26 October 1993 Label: Elektra Producer(s): Jackson Browne, Scott Thurston, Don Was Tracklist: 1 I'm Alive 5:01 2 My Problem Is You 4:40 3 Everywhere I Go 4:36 4 I'll Do Anything 4:31 5 Miles Away 3:52 6 Too Many Angels 6:04 7 Take This Rain 4:49 8 Two Of Me, Two Of You 2:56 9 Sky Blue And Black 6:06 10 All Good Things 4:28 Official Videos: DOWNLOAD IT HERE ---------- |
Title: Looking East
Release date: 13 February 1996Label: Elektra Producer(s): Kevin McCormick, Scott Thurston Tracklist: 1 Looking East 4:57 2 The Barricades Of Heaven 5:42 3 Some Bridges 4:51 4 Information Wars 5:14 5 I'm The Cat 3:56 6 Culver Moon 5:45 7 Baby How Long 5:05 8 Nino 5:13 9 Alive In The World 4:51 10 It Is One 4:54 Official Videos: DOWNLOAD IT HERE |
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