News Archives: 2014

Jackson Browne’s Standing in the Breach One of Rolling Stone’s 50 Best Albums of 2014

Browne confirmed his place as an essential voice in the wilds of the 21st century with this powerful set of songs about love and progressive ideals forces that a corrupt world can never truly defeat. Songs like “The Long Way Around” are the most eloquent protests against apathy you’ll hear this year.

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Jackson Browne Announces 2015 European Tour Dates In Support Of His New Album, Standing In The Breach.

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Singer-songwriter Jackson Browne announces 2015 European tour dates to support his new studio album, Standing In The Breach. Advance tickets and special benefit seating are available beginning this week through www.jacksonbrowne.com.

Standing In The Breach, Jackson’s new studio album, is a collection of ten songs, at turns deeply personal and political, exploring love, hope, and defiance in the face of the advancing uncertainties of modern life.

Currently, Jackson Browne is on a sold out tour with his band in the UK. Last week, he announced 2015 dates in Florida, U.S. (February), Japan (March), and Italy (May). For more information, visit www.jacksonbrowne.com.

2015 Tour Dates:
(More dates to be announced)

U.S.
February 17 Barbara B. Mann Perf. Arts Hall Ft. Myers, Florida
February 18 King Center for the Perf. Arts Melbourne, Florida
February 20 Fillmore at Jackie Gleason Theater Miami, Florida
February 21 Ruth Eckerd Hall Clearwater, Florida
February 23 Florida Theatre Jacksonville, Florida
February 24 Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre Orlando, Florida

JAPAN
March 9 Aichi-ken Geitjutsu Gekijo Nagoya, Japan
March 11 Orchard Hall Tokyo, Japan
March 12 Orchard Hall Tokyo, Japan
March 13 Orchard Hall Tokyo, Japan
March 16 Osaka Festival Hall Osaka, Japan
March 17 Bunka Gakuen HBG Hall Hiroshima, Japan

EUROPE
May 24 Auditorium Parco Della Musica Rome, Italy
May 25 Auditorium Manzoni Bologna, Italy
May 27 Teatro Sociale Como, Italy
May 28 Teatro Colosseo Turin, Italy
June 6 Volkshaus Zurich, Switzerland
June 8 Admiralspalast Berlin, Germany
June 12 Bergenfest Bergen, Norway
June 13 Norwegian Wood Festival Oslo, Norway
June 15 Waterfront Stockholm, Sweden
June 16 Liseberg Amusement Park Gothenburg, Sweden
June 18 Amager Bio Copenhagen, Denmark
June 19 Train Aarhus, Denmark
June 21 Stadpark Hamburg, Germany
June 22 Heineken Music Hall Amsterdam, Netherlands
June 24 Royal Circus Brussels, Belgium
June 25 La Cigale Paris, France
June 27 Hegelsaal Stuttgart, Germany
June 28 Jahrhunderthalle Frankfurt, Germany
June 30 Tollwood Festival Munich, Germany

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Jackson Browne to Appear on SiriusXM’s Artist Confidential on Thanksgiving Day

Singer-songwriter Jackson Browne announces additional U.S. tour dates beginning February 2015 to support his new studio album, Standing In The Breach. Advance tickets available beginning this week.

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Thanksgiving Day will feature the debut of SiriusXMs Artist Confidential with Jackson Browne and his band. Host Mike Marrone speaks to Jackson about his wonderful new album “”Standing In The Breach”” and Jackson and the band perform songs from the album, as well as a few old favorites live in the SiriusXM Performance Theater in front of a studio audience.

Jackson Brownes SiriusXM Artist Confidential airs Thanksgiving Day 11/27/14 at 2 PM (ET) with encores Friday 11/28/14 11 PM (ET) and Sunday 11/30/14 at 6 AM (ET). Also available on SiriusXM On Demand.

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Jackson Browne Announces February 2015 U.S. Tour Dates In Support Of His New Album, Standing In The Breach

Singer-songwriter Jackson Browne announces additional U.S. tour dates beginning February 2015 to support his new studio album, Standing In The Breach. Advance tickets available beginning this week.

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Accompanying Jackson on the road this February are longtime band mates Val McCallum (guitar), Mauricio Lewak (Drums), Jeff Young (keyboards) and Bob Glaub (bass), with the addition of acclaimed multi-instrumentalist Greg Leisz (guitar, lap steel, pedal steel). Standing In The Breach, Jackson’s new studio album, is a collection of ten songs, at turns deeply personal and political, exploring love, hope, and defiance in the face of the advancing uncertainties of modern life.

This is my ideal band, with some of my favorite players, all of whom appear on the new CD, and whose combined gifts provide the musical foundation and emotional underpinnings of my new songs, says Jackson. The interplay between Val McCallum and Greg Leisz on this album – the effortlessness of their chemistry is a gift really, that just dropped into my lap. I feel fortunate to have them out on the road for this tour.

Currently, Jackson Browne is on a sold out tour with his band in the UK. Last week, he announced 2015 dates in both Japan (March), and Italy (May). For more information, visit www.jacksonbrowne.com/tour.

2015 Tour Dates:
(More dates to be announced)

U.S.
February 17 – Barbara B. Mann Perf. Arts Hall – Ft. Myers, Florida
February 18 – King Center for the Perf. Arts – Melbourne, Florida
February 20 – Fillmore at Jackie Gleason Theater – Miami, Florida
February 21 – Ruth Eckerd Hall – Clearwater, FL
February 23 – Florida Theatre – Jacksonville, FL
February 24 – Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre – Orlando, FL

JAPAN
March 9 – Aichi-ken Geitjutsu Gekijo – Nagoya, Japan
March 11 – Orchard Hall – Tokyo, Japan
March 12 – Orchard Hall – Tokyo, Japan
March 13 – Orchard Hall – Tokyo, Japan
March 16 – Osaka Festival Hall – Osaka, Japan
March 17 – Bunka Gakuen HBG Hall – Hiroshima, Japan

ITALY
May 24 Auditorium Parco Della Musica – Rome, Italy
May 25 Auditorium Manzoni – Bologna, Italy
May 27 Teatro Sociale – Como, Italy
May 28 Teatro Colosseo – Turin, Italy

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Jackson Browne Announces 2015 Japan Tour

Jackson Browne Announces 2015 Japan Tour In Support Of His New Album, Standing In The Breach — Advance Tickets Available Now

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Singer-songwriter Jackson Browne announces Japan tour, scheduled for March 2015 to support his new studio album, Standing In The Breach. Advance tickets will be available at 11 AM local time on Monday, November 10 through www.jacksonbrowne.com.

Accompanying Jackson on the road in Japan are longtime band mates Val McCallum (guitar), Mauricio Lewak (Drums), Jeff Young (keyboards) and Bob Glaub (bass), with the addition of acclaimed multi-instrumentalist Greg Leisz (guitar, lap steel, pedal steel). Standing In The Breach, Jackson’s new studio album, is a collection of ten songs, at turns deeply personal and political, exploring love, hope, and defiance in the face of the advancing uncertainties of modern life.

This is my ideal band, with some of my favorite players, all of whom appear on the new CD, and whose combined gifts provide the musical foundation and emotional underpinnings of my new songs, says Jackson. The interplay between Val McCallum and Greg Leisz on this album – the effortlessness of their chemistry is a gift really, that just dropped into my lap. I feel fortunate to have them out on the road for this tour.

Currently, Jackson Browne is on a sold out tour with his band in the UK. For more information, visit www.jacksonbrowne.com.

JAPAN 2015 TOUR:
March 9 – Aichi-ken Geitjutsu Gekijo – Nagoya, Japan
March 11 – Orchard Hall – Tokyo, Japan
March 12 – Orchard Hall – Tokyo, Japan
March 13 – Orchard Hall – Tokyo, Japan
March 16 – Osaka Festival Hall – Osaka, Japan
March 17 – Bunka Gakuen HBG Hall – Hiroshima, Japan

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Jackson Browne Announces Italian 2015 Tour Dates

Jackson Browne Announces Italian 2015 Tour Dates In Support Of His New Album, Standing In The Breach.

Advance tickets will be available at 10 AM CEST (Central European Standard Time) on Saturday, November 7.

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Jackson Browne: Standing In The Breach Album Review

Jackson Brownes new album is a masterclass in Americana says Harry Mulligan.

The new Jackson Browne album, Standing In The Breach, his fourteenth studio LP, is classically, monumentally and colossally Jackson Browne. Period! He cleverly holds a mirror up to a heavily dichotomous and divided America, but not before revisiting that gentle easy groove of yesteryear in his first two tracks, The Birds of Saint Marks (the albums first single) and Yeah Yeah.

The opening track was written some years ago when Browne lived in the Parish of St Mark in New York City. In the second track we hear more from the man with the long love affair with love, before we start to see glimpses of the old politicized Browne that we know and love, Rock n Roll Hall of Fame inductee that he is.

Read the full story at louderthanwar.com.

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Jackson Browne, Standing in the Breach The Interview

2014 10 07 Rockcellar Mag Interview

Standing in the Breach, the new Jackson Browne album out October 7th on Inside Recordings, is full of the sort of ruminations on love and loss and the state of the world that fans of his remarkable early 70s work will find familiar, with songs of longing about the space between us ultimately giving way to reflections on peace and hope.

Browne has released three excellent live acoustic-based albums since 2005, but Standing In The Breach is his first studio album since 2008s Time the Conqueror. It opens with The Birds of St. Marks, a song he wrote in 1967 but never captured on tape the way he originally intended.

“I wrote it when I was playing guitar for Nico in New York in the Sixties,” Browne told me recently. “She loved the Byrds, and so did I, and she would often say, ‘Play something like McGuinn.’ So that definitely inspired the writing. But I always imagined it this way, the way it is on the new album.”

Read the full story at rockcellarmagazine.com.

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An Interview with Jackson Browne

2014 10 07 The Nation

Katrina vanden Heuvel: So, thank you for taking the time.

Jackson Browne: Oh, no. Thank you for askingfor wanting to do this. Im thrilled.

KVH: Youre carrying The New York Times.

JB: I get The New York Times every day that Im touring actually and at home. And then John gets it for me wherever we are and whatever the local paper is, but this isso this isits always interesting toyou knowwell, its not interesting, but its always notable to note the difference in the coverage.

KVH: I was listening to Lives in the Balance anda lot of questions about thatbut you have a great line in there, which Im not going to get right, but about the mediaabout talk radio, talk shows and what they kind of peddle. And Im just wondering: were living in a different time, but many of the issues youve written about, have sung aboutyou know, war, lack of humanity, lies government tellsIm wondering how you see the media right now.

Read the full story at thenation.com.

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‘Like Opening A Book In The Middle’: Jackson Browne Returns To An Old Song

2014 10 06 Npr Article

Singer and songwriter Jackson Browne remembers the circumstances well: Just 18 years old, with $50 to his name and new to New York City, he “lucked into” a job playing for the singer Nico. Suddenly he was an observer to the world of The Velvet Underground, Andy Warhol and their coterie.

On his new album, Standing In The Breach, Browne revisits a song he wrote during this time: “The Birds Of St. Marks,” a portrait of Nico that he composed as he was leaving New York.

“She was a big fan of The Byrds,” Browne tells NPR’s Melissa Block. “She would say ‘can you play something like Jim McGuinn?’ I’d go, ‘well, no.’ “

That request was in his mind when he returned to “The Birds Of St. Marks.”…

Read the full story at npr.org.

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