Q 233
Album Review
December 2005
Jackson Browne
Solo Acoustic Vol. 1
Deeply intimate live album by the soft rocker’s soft rocker.
Culled from recent solo acoustic shows, this relaxed and charming live album strips away Browne’s sometimes overly glossy tendencies, throwing out setlists to play impromptu requests, including rare sightings of The Birds Of St. Marks. If you cut out the whooping of the thousand middle-management Americans in the audience, the reward is an album comparable with anything similar by Neil Young or Bruce Springsteen. With earnest young singer-songwriters eating the world, it might be time to rediscover one of their sources. -Andy Fyfe
‘Four out of five stars’ [Q Recommends]