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Jackson Browne has announced U.S. tour dates for this summer.

Browne will launch the run on June 3 in Columbus, Ohio, making stops in cities like Pittsburgh, Nashville, Austin and New Orleans before wrapping the tour on Aug. 2 in Clearwater, Fla.

Tickets for the summer tour will be available beginning March 24. You can see a complete list of dates below. Browne is now wrapping up a run of shows in Japan, which will be followed by a few dates in Australia and New Zealand before his return to the U.S.

His most recent album,  Downhill From Everywhere , was released in 2021.

Jackson Browne, Summer 2023 U.S. Tour  June 3 – Columbus, OH @ Palace Theatre June 4 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Benedum Center for the Performing Arts June 6 – Akron, OH @ Akron Civic Theatre June 7 – Toledo, OH @ Stranahan Theater June 9 – Springfield, IL @ UIS Performing Arts Center June 10 – Louisville, KY @ The Louisville Palace Theatre June 12 – Springfield, MO @ MSU - Juanita K. Hammons Hall for the Performing Arts June 13 – Omaha, NE @ Orpheum Theater June 15 – Madison, WI @ The Orpheum Theater June 16 – Evansville, IN @ Victory Theatre June 18 – Nashville, TN @ Grand Ole Opry June 19 – Nashville, IN @ Brown County Music Center July 14 – El Paso, TX @ Abraham Chavez Theatre July 15 – Midland, TX @ Wagner Noël Performing Arts Center July 18 – Austin, TX @ ACL Live at the Moody Theater July 19 – Grand Prairie, TX @ Texas Trust CU Theatre at Grand Prairie July 21 – Sugar Land, TX @ Smart Financial Centre July 22 – New Orleans, LA @ Saenger Theatre July 25 – Mobile, AL @ Saenger Theatre July 26 – Birmingham, AL @ Alabama Theatre July 28 – Jacksonville, FL @ Jacksonville Center for the Perf. Arts | Moran Theater July 29 – Orlando, FL @ Walt Disney Theater Aug. 1 – Fort Lauderdale, FL @ Au-Rene Theater at the Broward Center for the Perf. Arts Aug 2 – Clearwater, FL @ Ruth Eckerd Hall

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Jackson Browne and His Band Release ‘Evening With’ Tour Dates

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Jackson Browne has released the dates for his upcoming tour ‘Evening With.’

The run of shows will take place in September between his cross-country tour with James Taylor (an additional show will take place in early August in Connecticut).

‘Evening With’ comes off the heels of the legendary singer-songwriter’s 15th album Downhill from Everywhere , which will be released on July 23. ‘Evening With’ will feature Jackson Browne with his band including new keyboardist Jason Crosby known for his work with Phil Lesh, Robert Randolph, God Street Wine, and Jenny Lewis.

Outside of music, Browne won the Gandhi Peace Prize in 2018 for his ongoing charitable efforts.

Stream “My Cleveland Heart” a single off Downhill from Everywhere here .

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Jackson Browne ‘Evening With’ Tour: Aug. 8 – Mashantucket, CT – Foxwoods Grand Theater Sept. 5 – Santa Barbara, CA – Santa Barbara Bowl Sept. 8 – Paso Robles, CA – Vina Robles Amphitheatre Sept. 10 – Napa, CA – Oxbow Riverstage Sept. 11 – Stateline, NV – Harveys Outdoor Arena Sept. 14 – Prescott, AZ – Findlay Toyota Center Sept. 15 – Tucson, AZ – Tucson Music Hall Sept. 17 – Phoenix, AZ – The Celebrity Theatre Sept. 18 – Phoenix, AZ – The Celebrity Theatre Sept. 20 – Albuquerque, NM – Kiva Auditorium   Jackson Browne with James Taylor Tour: July 29 – Chicago, IL – United Center July 31 – Cuyahoga Falls, OH – Blossom Music Center Aug. 1 – Detroit, MI – DTE Energy Center Aug. 3 – Pittsburgh, PA – PPG Paints Arena Aug. 4 – Dayton, OH – Nutter Center Aug. 6 – Charleston, WV – Charleston Coliseum Aug. 11 – Roanoke, VA – Berglund Ctr Coliseum Aug. 13 – Louisville, KY – KFC Yum Center Aug. 14 – Memphis, TN – FedEx Forum Aug. 16 – Nashville, TN – Bridgestone Arena Aug. 17 – Atlanta, GA – Infinite Energy Center Aug. 19 – Hershey, PA – Giant Center Aug. 21 – Bethel, NY – Bethel Woods Center For The Arts Aug. 25 – Camden, NJ – BB&T Aug. 27 – Wantagh, NY – Jones Beach Aug. 28 – Holmdel, NJ – PNC Bank Arts Oct. 16 – New Orleans, LA – Smoothie King Center Oct. 17 – Houston, TX – Toyota Center Oct. 19 – Fort Worth, TX – Dickies Arena Oct. 22 – Salt Lake City, UT – Maverik Center Oct. 23 – Boise, ID – ExtraMile Arena Oct. 25 – Portland, OR – Moda Center Oct. 27 – Tacoma, WA – Tacoma Dome Oct. 29 – San Francisco, CA – Chase Center Oct. 30 – Anaheim, CA – Honda Center Nov.  1 – San Diego, CA – Pechanga Arena

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Love the ‘Evening With’ dates, but that JT double bill will be the Snoozefest Olympics. Who falls asleep first? The 70 year olds in the audience or the ones on stage?

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Pass the coffee.

I love JB but just can’t stomach some of the stuff I’ve seen at some of his shows during the past decade. Not exactly the type of environment you’d expect fist fights on the lawn, but that’s been the norm in my experience as of late. I can only imagine the reopening is gonna make it all the worse.

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50/60 somethings sloppy drunk on Bud Lite tall boys think they’re back in high school in the late 70’s. They should keep that behavior at mainstream country shows.

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Bearded and dressed in black, Browne looked the part of a spiritual music master — guiding listeners through mysteries of the heart and the turmoil of a troubled world.

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“So, we’ve been having some strange weather,” Jackson Browne remarked to his audience early in his Beacon Theatre performance Tuesday — the first of a four-night stand at the New York venue. “I mean, the entire world is having strange weather.”

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His comments introduced “Downhill From Everywhere,” a song whose montage of images place a neglected ocean at the center of a distracted and troubled world. It is the title track of the masterful 2021 album from this beloved singer/songwriter who, among many other things, has been on the front lines of climate activism for decades.

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Further on in his set, Browne brought forth his 1974 classic “Before the Deluge,” singing of dreamers on “the brave and crazy wings of youth” who were “angry at the way the earth was abused” — who nonetheless responded with the call: “Let the music keep our spirits high.”

These songs, recorded decades apart, were just two highlights of Browne’s joyous return to one of the singer’s favorite venues, in a year that marks the 50th anniversary of his debut album. “I love the Beacon,” said Browne — despite contracting COVID-19 previously at the hall, he acknowledged. His affection extended to the city outside. “I just dig how resilient New York is,” he said.

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Dressed in black and sporting a gray beard that he has grown in recent years, Browne looked even more the part of a spiritual music master — guiding his listeners through both mysteries of the heart and the turmoil of a troubled world.

From the bright pop of Tuesday’s opening song, “Somebody’s Baby,” to the closing encore of “Load Out” and “Stay” (the latter a fitting tribute to the resilience of touring musicians at this stage in the pandemic), Browne and his eight-piece band looked back with reflection and ahead with optimism.

Here are five moving moments from Browne’s Tuesday night show.

Tapping the cultural mood

A media study in June found that some 38% of Americans say they often or sometimes avoid the news nowadays. Browne tapped that zeitgeist a decade ago in “The Long Way Around,” which he performed early in Tuesday’s set. “It’s a little hard keeping track of what’s gone wrong,” he sang. “The covenant unravels and the news just rolls along/ I could feel my memory letting go/ Some two or three disasters ago.”

So clear and so bright

In 2004, when Bruce Springsteen inducted his friend Browne into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, he said: “In ’70s post-Vietnam America, there was no album that captured the fall from Eden, the long, slow afterburn of the ’60s, its heartbreak, its disappointments, its spent possibilities, better than Jackson’s masterpiece Late for the Sky .” Browne recognizes the enduring power of that work and offered no fewer than four songs from that 1974 album, from the lover “smiling so clear and so bright” in “Fountain of Sorrow,” to “Before the Deluge,” to the album’s title track, and “For a Dancer” — which contains perhaps the most moving lyric ever written about the death of a friend. “I can’t help feeling stupid standing ’round/ Crying as they ease you down/ Because I know you’d rather we were dancing/ Dancing our sorrow away.”

How the pandemic changed a ballad

When Browne performed at the Beacon Theatre in 2019, he introduced a new song, “A Human Touch,” co-written by Leslie Mendelson and Steve McEwan. It was composed for a documentary about the San Francisco General Hospital AIDS ward during the 1980s — and the bravery and devotion of the doctors and nurses who cared for the sick in those years. Onstage Tuesday, Browne brought out Mendelson to duet on the song. Certainly there was more than one member of the audience who said a last farewell to a loved one during the pandemic, without the blessing of a human touch. And this ballad became a fresh tribute to the medical caregivers of the past two-plus years.

Running on a full tank

A Jackson Browne concert does not lack for wonderfully reflective music. As he performed a heartfelt “These Days,” you could not help but marvel at how a very young man had first written this world-weary meditation. But this veteran of Southern California’s freeways also has no hesitation to rock out.

And Browne is touring with an extraordinary band that allows him to do so: bassist Bob Glaub (who goes all the way back to the sessions for The Pretender ); drummer Mauricio Lewak; organist Jeff Young; pianist Jason Crosby, who doubled on violin; backup singers Alethea Mills and Chavonne Stewart; and guitarists Val McCallum and Greg Leisz, who also played pedal and lap steel.

In sound that was powerful and crisp from the front rows of the orchestra to the upper balcony (this writer checked), Browne led this ensemble through some of his most riveting, upbeat songs: “Rock Me on the Water,” his cover of Steven Van Zandt’s “I Am a Patriot,” “You Love the Thunder,” “Redneck Friend,” a gospel-like “Doctor My Eyes,” and the set-closing “Running on Empty.”

Reviving a classic song — and segue

“I didn’t sing this song for many years,” Browne began, describing the co-writing sessions he’d had with his late friend and onetime neighbor Glenn Frey , which led to a monster hit for Frey’s band the Eagles (and the suggestion that Browne was covering that band’s song). But for the show’s penultimate encore, Browne beautifully reclaimed “Take It Easy” as an exuberant call to “lighten up while you still can.”

But there was more. As the closing chords of “Take It Easy” swirled in the night, Brown and the band segued into “Our Lady of the Well.” It was a delightful musical juxtaposition that first appeared on Browne’s recording of those songs, on his sophomore album, For Everyman , and it is imprinted on the aural memories of countless fans. It was as if Browne sought to give a knowing gift to those who have traveled with him along the road all these years.

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‘What’s more personal than your political belief?’ ... Jackson Browne

Jackson Browne: ‘I think desire is the last domino to fall’

The singer-songwriter discusses his new album and how his age and the current political landscape has shifted his musical direction

I n the nearly seven years leading up to Jackson Browne’s new album, Downhill from Everywhere, he entered a new decade of life (his 70s), became a grandfather and saw fresh waves of activists, from the MeToo movement to Black Lives Matter, replace the ones that had inspired him in the 60s and 70s. At the same time, many of his new songs center on a theme most people associate with the bloom of youth: desire. “I think desire is the last domino to fall,” Browne said in a phone interview from his LA home. “Desire is eternal, like hope. It’s just your capacity to act on it that changes,” he added with a dark laugh.

It’s that capacity that Browne ponders and challenges throughout the album, from its restless opening track, Still Looking for Something, to its finale, Song for Barcelona, which presents that Spanish city’s vibrancy as its own avenue for renewal. With characteristic eloquence and reach, Browne addresses desire in all its forms, whether that be for a romantic connection, a sense of purpose, a political goal or simply to experience something new.

Despite the scope of his yearning, Browne kept his perspective tight by framing everything from a well-seasoned point of view. “I’m old, you know,” said the 72-year-old songwriter. “It’s one of the undeniable facts of this life that it doesn’t last forever. So, I think my questions now have more to do with, ‘what can be accomplished in the time I have left?’ And, ‘what are we here for in the first place?’”

Such philosophical questions have served as both a spur and a muse for Browne ever since he first garnered attention as a teenage poet prodigy in the late 60s, when he wrote such improbably heavy songs as These Days. Not that he finds the gravity of such songs unlikely. “Kids have a very intense emotional life,” he said. “They just don’t get credit for it.”

He believes some of his flair for capturing grave emotions comes from listening to a lot of older blues and folk musicians from a young age. “When you sing an old song, you take on that feeling,” he said. “Also, my mother had this great collection of blues lyrics that treated them like an anthology of poems. That stuff hit me like a thunderbolt. ‘Man, this is the stuff!’ I thought. It’s a distillation of the human spirit.”

The political side of older folk songs inspired him to become his own kind of musical activist. In that spirit, the new album continues Browne’s common pattern of balancing politically minded pieces with personal ones. Still, he pushes back against the assumption that there’s a clear separation between the two. “What’s more personal than your political belief?” he said. “It’s highly personal.”

At the same time, he’s well aware that many people find songs with a political message preachy and pedantic. For him, such criticisms go with the territory. “You try not to preach,” he said. “But the problem is, if you’re too oblique, no one knows what the hell you’re talking about.”

He believes the resistance by some listeners to political music comes from a kind of guilt. “They can feel like they’re being lectured to simply because they don’t know much about the subject,” he said. “And they get the feeling they should know more.”

He has experienced such awkwardness first-hand while performing political songs he has written like Lives in the Balance. “I could tell people were getting restless,” he said, “so, I said to the audience, ‘I can see that I’m making some of you uncomfortable, but I feel like maybe that’s what I should do.’”

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For the new album, Browne wrote a song called Until Justice is Real, whose title echoes the rallying cry of the activist group Color of Change. Their stated mission is “to create a more human and less hostile world for Black people in America”. Another song on the album, The Dreamer, deals with the vexing issues surrounding Mexican immigration to the US. Such messages arrive at an opportune time. In the last few years, young people have become more politically involved than at any time since Browne was young. “For a long time, it didn’t seem like youth engaged in anything like this,” the songwriter said. “Maybe it’s that now the problems are so severe, they can’t be ignored.”

While the return to activism may stir Browne, the rise of Donald Trump, and what that has revealed, has shaken his deepest assumptions about both politics and human nature. “Like a lot of people, I fundamentally believed that we were on a gradual ascent towards solving the problems that we have had all along, having to do with inclusion and opportunity and justice,” he said. “I thought that things were getting better. Evidently, I was wrong. We can’t pretend any more than we don’t have the same divisions in this country that we’ve had since the civil war.”

But if Browne’s world view has darkened, his own life seems to be on the upswing. He says he’s now more excited about making music than he has been in years, buoyed by his band, who contributed more to the songwriting process than usual for the new album. More, the lyrics to several new songs, including Human Touch and Minutes to Downtown, capture a man who, late in life, has found a new romantic involvement. In the latter song, he sings, “I didn’t think I would ever feel this way again/no, not with a story this long and close to the end.”

Along the way, the song’s narrator offers a key detail, referring to “the years I’ve seen that fell between my birth date and yours”, clearly speaking to a younger lover. When asked about the lines, Browne takes a long pause. “I hate to disclose stuff about the personal part of the song because songs are about the listener,” he said. But, “in this case, I’m telling the truth about my own situation.”

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He wouldn’t be more specific but he stressed that, to him, “the more telling part of the lyric is the line about ‘a river changing course’. I actually looked it up and that can happen. Rivers do change course, but it’s a long process. I think my life has changed course. I’ve taken on a commitment to personal growth. And it’s late,” he added.

Browne deals with such late-breaking quests in a humorous way in the album’s single, My Cleveland Heart, which finds him travelling to the famous Cleveland Clinic to have an artificial heart transplant. In the song, he says of that miraculous device, “they’re made to take a bashing / and never lose their passion. They never break and they don’t ache,” he sings. “They just plug in and shine.”

“It’s the whole idea of eliminating human frailty,” he said. “Wouldn’t that be great? Automatic happiness!”

In the video for the song – which features songwriter Phoebe Bridges playing a nurse – Browne once again underscores his age by letting his hair go grey. “I’m as vain as the next person,” he said. “But what are you going to do? To me, when I see an old guy with a dye job it interferes with my enjoyment of the person’s work. If you’re talking about what’s really going on in a life, you can’t be wearing a disguise.”

Browne’s sustained quest to be frank led him to close the album with Song for Barcelona, which imagines a life for him beyond music, made possible by a city he has long loved. “The song is about coming to terms with mortality and life’s temporal changes,” he said. Barcelona “is a place I could imagine myself going to live at some point. I would be like one of those little old people you encounter on the street – another person in the crowd.”

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Springsteen archives & center for american music announces 2024 honorees.

February 20, 2024

The Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music has announced the honorees of its second annual American Music Honors event, to be held Wednesday, April 24 on the campus of Monmouth University in West Long Branch, N.J.

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The 2024 honorees are: John Mellencamp, who together with Willie Nelson and Neil Young, created Farm Aid in 1985. The social activism reflected in Mellencamp’s songs helped catalyze Farm Aid, the organization that has addressed the struggle of American family farmers that continues to this day; Jackson Browne, a long-time social justice, environmental and educational activist who has supported everything from anti-nuclear alternative energy resources to political freedom in Central America; Mavis Staples, who in the 1960’s was on the frontlines of the civil rights movement and continues to use her music to support racial equality in America; Dion DiMucci, who’s landmark recording of “Abraham, Martin and John” became an activist anthem in the late 1960’s and beyond.

“The Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music is proud to honor these musically, culturally, and politically important artists,” said Robert Santelli, Founding Executive Director of the Springsteen Archives. “All four artists—John Mellencamp, Jackson Browne, Mavis Staples, and Dion—have contributed mightily to the American music canon and have demonstrated how the power of song can act as an agent for positive change in our country.”

American Music Honors will take place in Monmouth University’s Pollak Theatre. Stevie Van Zandt’s Disciples of Soul will serve as the event’s house band. Award presenters include Bruce Springsteen and Jon Landau and 2023 American Music Honors recipients Van Zandt and Darlene Love.

Tickets for the event will go on sale to the public on Tuesday, March 23. Ticket information is available on the Archives’ website springsteenarchives.org .

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James Taylor, Jackson Browne Announce Rescheduled Dates for Joint Tour

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James Taylor and Jackson Browne have announced new dates for the tour they originally planned for the summer of 2020. They are now scheduled to kick things off on July 29th, 2021 at the United Center in Chicago and wrap up November 1st at the Pechanga Arena in San Diego. Tickets for the original shows will be honored at the new dates.

“We want to thank all those who have graciously held onto their tickets; we appreciate your continued patience as we navigate these unchartered waters,” they said in a dual statement. “We didn’t want to have to cancel this tour that we’ve been waiting so long to perform together, so we’ve been working to get these dates rescheduled to a time period when the U.S. is reopened and safe to gather for a concert.”

The tour is hitting at mixture of outdoor amphitheaters and indoor arenas; there hasn’t been North American concert in venues of that size since the start of the pandemic in March 2020. As of now, it’s not entirely clear if said shows will be permitted in every market when this tour is supposed to launch in July. “Of course we will be keeping a close eye and abide with all health and safety protocols throughout each venue and state,” they said in their statement. “We can’t wait to get back on stage and see you out there soon.”

Jackson Browne contracted Covid-19 in the early days of the pandemic. “My symptoms are really pretty mild, so I don’t require any kind of medication and certainly not hospitalization or anything like that,” he told Rolling Stone shortly after the news broke. “It’s important for us all to be pretty forthcoming about what we’re going through. Our experiences will be helpful for others to know. I don’t think my case is that important, but it might be helpful to know that some people don’t get this really bad.”

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Behind the Album: Jackson Browne Delivers the Singer/Songwriter Masterpiece ‘Late for the Sky’

V ery few albums manage to define both a genre and the setting of their creation. Jackson Browne‘s Late for the Sky qualifies for that short list. It gave all singer/songwriters a standard of excellence to try and match. And its sound and lyrics managed to capture both the decadence and sadness of the Southern California scene in 1974, the year it was released.

What inspired Browne when he conceived and wrote this record? And what makes it so special? Let’s take a deep dive into Late for the Sky .

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Browne was writing songs for top rock and pop artists in his teens. Perhaps that’s why his 1972 self-titled debut album, released when he was 23, sounded like the work of an accomplished veteran. He scored a Top Ten single off that record in “Doctor My Eyes,” but his 1973 follow-up For Everyman didn’t scale the same commercial heights, even as it included songs like “Take It Easy” and “These Days,” which had been hits for others.

As a result, Asylum Records chief David Geffen put a stricter limit on the budget for his third album. Browne used what budget he was given to pay for his band to come out and rehearse the new album. Browne, keyboardist Jai Winding, and multi-instrumentalist David Lindley experimented with who would be playing what instrument on each particular song, until the arrangements perfectly captured the emotional tenor off the lyrics.

Browne wrote the album while living in his childhood home with his wife and baby boy, which, as he explained in an interview with the Library of Congress about Late for the Sky , made a profound impact on the material:

“And there was that idea in my mind that I was in repeating, you know, repeating a cycle. That

my father had been a child in that house—my father was a child when the house was built. So I

had that idea of the recurring, the generational, repeating generations.”

The Finished Product

There are only eight songs on Late for the Sky , but five run longer than five minutes. Browne wasn’t worried about song structure as much as evoking certain feelings. You can hear it in song like “Fountain of Sorrow,” where he repeats the same musical line with different lyrics over and over toward song’s end, building the moment until the emotional release of the line But you go on smiling so clear and so bright.

Browne fearlessly tackled concerns on the album that many members of his generation were facing down as well. “For a Dancer” stands as one of the finest songs about dealing with death because of how Browne admits his powerlessness—he doesn’t really have any answers about dying. But that, in turn, gives him a clue about how to live.

Closing track “Before the Deluge” tells a cautionary tale about what could happen to the world if humanity continues to neglect environmental issues and the dangers of war. Browne envisions foolish mortals thinking that they can avoid the coming flood, eventually huddling under shelter as they seek to survive. Lindley sends these poor souls off in a flurry of ironically joyful fiddle playing.

The title track finds Browne writing about an expiring relationship with stunning eloquence: Awake again, I can’t pretend / And I know I’m alone / And close to the end of the feeling we’ve known. Many inherently understood the song’s phrase empty surprise , a common reaction to the broken promises of lovers, parents, and politicians. They knew well the ache in Browne’s voice as he moaned the song’s elongated syllables.

Life Imitates Art

While in the midst of writing and recording his next album ( The Pretende r in 1976), Browne’s wife took her own life. When reflecting on Late for the Sky , he talked about the way the songs connected to his life:

“I mean, it’s interesting to me. That I could be in that house writing a song, “Late for the Sky,”

and it’s about somebody that I broke up, that I had a breakup with, that I had a deep relationship

with, that I was no longer with and still healing from and still getting over. So, you’re with

somebody new, but you’re writing about somebody in the past and that has happened to me over

and over again. And it happened with her. I was with her, my wife, when I was writing “For a

Dancer.” But that song wasn’t about her, but it became about her because she died.”

Maybe it boils down to the way the songs on Late for the Sky touch on our eternal, insatiable longing, rendering them understandable and relatable across generations. That’s likely why people keep coming back to this Jackson Browne masterpiece after all these years.

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Jackson Browne Takes Fans on a Deep Dive Journey Across 50 Years #REVIEW

by Paul Cashmere on November 30, 2023

At one point Jackson Browne commented how he “doesn’t think of himself as 75 and doesn’t think of his beard as grey” but that is what a lifetime of success will do to you. For many people in the room (including myself) who started the Jackson Browne journey with his first album in 1972, this show delivered a deep dive across the entire career.

Jackson Browne performed at MCA Melbourne. This was the make-up show for shows cancelled earlier this year when Jackson contracted covid after arriving in Australia. He could have curated the obvious setlist but for the true fan, there were a lot of deep dives throughout the night.

The first six Jackson Browne albums (from 1972 to 1980) were represented but so were the two most recent records ‘Downhill From Everywhere, 2021) and ‘Standing In The Breach, 2014). For Browne, commentary is the lost important part of the art of his songwriting. There is a message in every song. ‘Downhill from Everywhere’ speaks to a world moving backwards. ‘Until Justice Is Real’ also speaks to today with those potent opening words, “Ain’t on your T.V., ain’t on your phone, You want the truth you got to find it on your own.”

It is hard to believe it has just gone 20 years since the passing of Warren Zevon. I’ve got an bootleg of Jackson from the 70s doing Warren’s ‘Werewolves of London’. They were close friends and that friendship lives on with Jackson performing two of Warren’s songs ‘Don’t Let Us Get Sick’ and ‘The Indifference of Heaven’.

‘Call It A Loan’ from the 1980 ‘Hold On’ album was an unexpected treat. The ‘Hold Out’ album was represented three times, with ‘Boulevard’ and ‘That Girl Could Sing’.

That second album ‘For Everyman’ received great exposure with the title track, the stunning ‘These Days’ (written by Jackson when he was 16 years old) and the rock ‘Redneck Friend’. (Fun Fact: Elton John played piano on Jackson’s 1973 recording under the name Rockaday Johnnie). Jackson went overtime at this show so the final song ‘Take It Easy’, the song Jackson co-wrote for Eagles, had to be dropped because of the MCA curfew.

Those first six Jackson Browne albums are must have classics for everyone’s collection. I doubt any true fan walked away disappointed from this show.

Jackson Browne setlist, MCA Melbourne, 29 November 2023

Don’t Let Us Get Sick (Warren Zevon cover from Warren’s Life’ll Kill Ya, 2000) Downhill From Everywhere (from Downhill From Everywhere, 2021) For Everyman (from For Everyman, 1973) Until Justice Is Real (from Downhill From Everywhere, 2021) Fountain of Sorrow (from Late For The Sky, 1974) The Long Way Around (from Standing In The Breach, 2014) Somebody’s Baby (from Fast Times At Ridgemont High soundtrack, 1982) Redneck Friend (from For Everyman, 1973) The Indifference of Heaven (Warren Zevon cover) For a Dancer (from Late For The Sky, 1974) Boulevard (from Hold Out, 1980) The Pretender (from The Pretender, 1976) Call it a Loan (from Hold Out, 1980) Time the Conqueror (from Time The Conqueror, 2008) Too Many Angels (from I’m Alive, 1993) These Days (from For Everyman, 1973) That Girl Could Sing (from Hold Out, 1980) Doctor My Eyes (from Jackson Browne, 1972) Late For The Sky (from Late For The Sky, 1974) Running on Empty (from Running On Empty, 1977)

Encore: The Load-Out / Stay (from Running On Empty, 1977)

Jackson Browne’s upcoming shows:

1 December, 2023, Sydney, Super Theatre 2 December, Mount Cotton, A Day On The Green

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New era begins at Moscow City Hall

Monday’s Moscow City Council meeting ushered in a new era as three new city councilmembers, a new city supervisor and new mayor were sworn into office.

Mayor Art Bettge took the oath of office, Julia Parker, Hailey Lewis and Gina Taruscio were sworn onto City Council and Bill Belknap took his position as the new city supervisor.

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Riedner is leaving after 26 years.

“Gary embodies the complex multifaceted character trait of understanding,” city attorney Mia Bautista said.

Deputy city supervisor Tyler Palmer said Riedner practiced “selfless service” and his work to oversee Moscow’s city services affected every citizen.

Deputy city supervisor Jen Pfiffner said Riedner has worked through every hard decision with an empathetic approach and is a “living example of ethical management.”

Riedner then took to the podium to share his brief remarks.

“I don’t know who you folks were describing tonight,” he joked. “He sounds like a heck of a guy.”

Riedner thanked city staff for doing their jobs with the “heart of a servant” and said he was grateful to work with the mayor, council and the community.

“The community means a lot to me,” he said.

As a parting gift, he was allowed to keep a wooden duck decoy that was part of Moscow’s public art collection and on Riedner’s wall since 2004.

As Lambert gave his final remarks, he thanked the 170 people who work for the city as well as the many who volunteer on the city’s commissions.

“That’s what makes our city great is the volunteerism,” he said.

He credited the council for being steadfast in their actions, including when it came to making decisions in response to COVID-19. He said they did what they thought was right for the community and did not let politics interfere with their decision making.

Lambert has served the city of Moscow for 21 years as a member of the planning and zoning commission, board of adjustment, city council and as mayor.

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