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Jackson Browne And Friends To Perform At Benefit For Sanctuary Centers At The Arlington Theatre In Santa Barbara On October 25

September 10, 2014

On October 25th at the Arlington Theatre in Santa Barbara, Jackson Browne and friends will host a special benefit for the Sanctuary Centers of Santa Barbara, the renowned non-profit provider of care for adults living with mental illness in the area. The evening will feature Jackson Browne along with members of his band and special guests. Tickets go on sale at 10AM Pacific on Friday, September 12th and can be purchased at all Ticketmaster outlets including the Arlington Theatre. To charge by phone please call 800-745-3000 or 805-963-4408. To order online visit www.ticketmaster.com

Sanctuary Centers of Santa Barbara is the leading community-based nonprofit in Santa Barbara that serves adults living with mental illness. They offer unique comprehensive individualized programs including: residential, outpatient, low-income housing, drug and alcohol therapy and vocational and educational training. Their continuum of care approach has resulted in long-term remission from severe and disabling psychiatric symptoms since 1976. Sanctuary Centers is proud to report that they have reduced the rate of mental health hospitalizations of their clients by 90% over the last 15 years and incredibly have not had a single incident of suicide among residential clients. Other key measures include an 85% sobriety rate of their drug and alcohol therapy clients over the last 8 years and cutting smoking by more than half in the past year from a high of 62% to 33%.

Jackson Browne is currently on tour with his band in support of his new studio album Standing In The Breach, to be released on October 7.

For more information on Sanctuary Centers visit www.sanctuarycenters.org

Review – Jackson Browne Standing in the Breach

September 2, 2014

by Nick Deriso – SomethingElseReviews.com

With Standing in the Breach, Jackson Browne makes a stunningly bold statement of purpose in a moment that might have been more reflective. After all, his very best music was the subject of a celebrated recent tribute album, something that might have left a lesser artist more humbled than ambitious. Not Browne. His first album of new songs since 2008, set for release on Browne’s own Inside Recordings in October, finds him working at peak creativity — as a writer, as a performer, as a bandmate.

Standing in the Breach is as layered as it is honest, as reflective as it is determined. Along the way, that takes Browne to places both reliably satisfying, and surprisingly new.

There’s “Yeah Yeah,” which belies its breezy title and chorus as Browne digs deep into a lover’s character study — without ever letting go of this song’s infectious hook. All of that is nicely balanced by “The Long Way Around,” as Browne traces a quieter, more personal shape around criticism of our unthankful modernity. Anyone who bought his first three or four albums will find themselves transported instantly back there.

But the restless Browne isn’t about to sit still. “Leaving Winslow,” at first, seems to follow that anger toward a sharper riff, but we find Browne instead hopping a rattling freight to follow his dreams. Already, the smart interplay between Greg Leisz and Val McCallum, as much as Browne’s pinpoint lyricism, has proven to be the engine that drives Standing in the Breach.

“It Could Be Anywhere” boasts a snappy, Beatlesque cadence, while “You Know the Night” pulls on a pair of dusty boots for an evening of two-stepping reminiscence. “Walls and Doors,” a meditation on the complexities of freedom, actually ends up giving Browne a chance to grow more introspective still. But then there’s “Which Side,” where Browne marches along in lyrical lockstep with Bob Dylan’s smart and too-often-overlooked “You Gotta Serve Somebody.”

The title track makes a clarion call for service, before “Here” arrives like a splash of 1970s-era Fleetwood Mac sunshine. Then there’s “The Birds of St. Marks,” an advance song of deeply personal beauty. Like “You Know the Night,” that track has been around for some time — but these songs, like Jackson Browne, sound born anew here.

Complex both emotionally and musically, Standing in the Breach is one of the most viscerally present albums in his storied career. Anyone of his vintage, of course, could perhaps be forgiven for looking backward. Browne is instead pushing himself ever forward — aware of the past, willing to reshape it and to build upon it, but ever forward.

Jackson Browne to Appear Sept. 5th at the 2nd Annual Benefit Concert for Jail Guitar Doors USA

August 31, 2014

Jackson Browne is featured at the 2nd Annual Benefit Concert for Jail Guitar Doors USA at the historic John Anson Ford Amphitheatre in Hollywood, CA, September 5th.

The concert is curated by MC5 guitarist & JBD-USA Co-founder Wayne Kramer. The show features a line-up including comedian/emcee Dana Gould, with featured performers including Jackson Browne, Tom Morello, White Fence, Jill Sobule and JGD Program Graduate Franc Foster.

The show will be held at the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre, 2580 Cahenga Blvd., East, Hollywood, CA. Friday, September 5th at 8pm, $25 General Admission / to $150 VIP Packages. More information about the show can be found here.

About Jail Guitar Doors USA
In 1978, The Clash released the song, “Jail Guitar Doors.” The song tells the story of the imprisonment of their fellow musician Wayne Kramer. In 2007, to honor the life of Clash founder, Joe Strummer, Billy Bragg launches an initiative in England to provide musical equipment used to rehabilitate inmates serving time in Her Majestys Prisons in the United Kingdom. His initiative is named for that very same song, Jail Guitar Doors. In 2009, Wayne Kramer partners with Billy Bragg to found Jail Guitar Doors USA. Together, their combined effort continues the mission for prisoners in America.

More information about Jail Guitar Doors USA can be found here.

Jackson Browne Announces New Album Standing In The Breach Out October 7th On Inside Recordings

August 20, 2014

LOS ANGELES,Aug. 19, 2014/PRNewswire/ — OnOctober 7th,Jackson Brownewill release his 14th studio album,Standing In The Breach. The album was recorded inLos Angelesand features the single “The Birds Of St. Marks,” which debuted yesterday on Rolling Stone and MOJO and is available today for download viaAmazonandiTuneswhen the albumStanding In The Breachis pre-ordered. “RINGING PEALS OF GUITARherald the coming of a great newJackson Brownerelease,” saidMOJO.

“The Birds ofSt. Marks” was originally written in 1967 when Jackson was just 18 and returning home toCaliforniaafter a brief stint living inNew York. The song was recorded as a demo in 1970 and occasionally heard in the live setting as captured on hisSolo Acoustic Vol. 1, but has only now been given the treatment Jackson had originally envisioned.”This is a song I always heard as a Byrds song, and that was even part of the writing of the song,” he toldRolling Stone. The finished version of the song featuresGreg Leiszplaying a “McGuinn-esque 12-string,” described Rolling Stone.Leisz and Jackson were joinedbyVal McCallum(electric guitar),Bob Glaub(bass) andDon Heffington(drums), whileas described in MOJO “McCallum andKipp Lennonstir[ed] essence of Crosby into the vocal harmonies.”

Jackson Brownelaunches an album tour this fall, with band dates starting at The Kennedy Center inWashington DC, and ending at The Royal Albert Hall inLondon, England. He will also appear on The Late Show withDavid LettermanonOctober 6thand CBS This Morning on October 11th. Accompanying Jackson on the road are longtime band matesVal McCallum(guitar),Mauricio Lewak(drums),Jeff Young(keyboards) andBob Glaub(bass), with the addition of acclaimed multi-instrumentalistGreg Leisz(guitar, lap steel, pedal steel).

Standing In The Breach, 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. “The interplay betweenVal McCallumandGreg Leiszon this album – the effortlessness of their chemistry is a gift really, that just dropped into my lap,” says Jackson. The album will be available everywhere onOctober 7th.

Track Listing forStanding In The Breach:
1)The Birds Of St. Marks
2)Yeah Yeah
3)The Long Way Around
4)Leaving Winslow
5)If I Could Be Anywhere
6)You Know The Night
7)Walls And Doors
8)Which Side
9)Standing In The Breach
10)Here

Tour Dates: (MORE TO BE ADDED)

Solo Acoustic
August 19- Capitol Center -Concord, NH
August 20- Providence PAC -Providence, RI
August 22- Toyota Presents the Oakdale Theatre -Wallingford, CT
August 23- Hippodrome Theatre -Baltimore, MD

FALL TOUR (U.S)
Full Band
September 14- Kennedy Center -Washington, DC
September 27-Newport Folk FestPresentsWay Over Yonder -Santa Monica, CA
October 4- Strand Capitol Performing Arts Center -York, PA
October 7- Beacon Theatre -New York, NY
October 8- Beacon Theatre -New York NY
October 10- Academy of Music -Philadelphia, PA
October 12- Benedum Center -Pittsburgh, PA
October 14- Chicago Theatre -Chicago, IL
October 15- E.J. Thomas Performing Arts Hall -Akron, OH
October 17- Palace Theatre -Columbus, OH
October 18- Murat Theatre -Indianapolis, IN

FALL TOUR (U.K.)
Full Band
November 17- Symphony Hall -Birmingham, UK
November 18-Bridgewater Hall-Manchester, UK
November 20- The Sage -Gateshead, UK
November 21- Royal Concert Hall -Glasgow, UK
November 24- Royal Albert Hall -London, UK

Exklusive Songpremiere: Jackson Browne – The Birds Of St. Marks

August 18, 2014

Oktober erscheint mit “Standing In The Breach” das vierzehnte Studioalbum von Jackson Browne. ROLLING STONE prsentiert schon jetzt die exklusive Premiere des neuen Songs “The Birds Of St. Marks”.

Oktober wird mit “Standing In The Breach“ ein neues Album von Jackson Browne erscheinen. Es ist bereits das vierzehnte Studiowerk in der Karriere des in Heidelberg geborenen Musikers. Im Herbst ist Browne zusamen mit seinen langjhrigen Bandkollegen Val McCallum, Mauricio Lewak, Jeff Young und Bob Glaub auf Tour. (Termine fr Deutschland sind bisher noch nicht angekndigt.)

“Das ist meine absolute Wunschband, mit einigen meiner liebsten Musikern, die alle auch auf der neuen CD dabei sind. Ihre gemeinsamen Talente sttzen das musikalische und emotionale Fundament meiner neuen Songs”, sagt Browne mit groem Stolz.

ROLLING STONE prsentiert exklusiv die Premiere seines neuen Songs “The Birds Of St. Marks”:

Jackson Browne The Birds Of St. Marks: MOJO Premiere

August 18, 2014

By Danny Eccleston — MOJO Magazine

Ringing peals of guitar herald the coming of a great new Jackson Browne release, itself a harbinger of an October 6-7 album, Standing In The Breach, his 14th. Browne fans will find the rousing electric incarnation unfamiliar, but the song itself is from the archive.

The Birds Of St. Marks was originally recorded on April 6, 1970 as a demo for Criterion Music, and first emerged on Browne’s 2005 album, Solo Acoustic Vol 1. Concerning a medieval-ish queen sequestered in sadness behind castle walls, the song was inspired by Velvet Underground songstrel Nico, with whom the young Browne, as a dashing young-songwriter about town, had a dalliance. Browne songs and co-writes These Days, Somewhere Theres A Feather, The Fairest Of The Seasons lay at the heart of the Teutonic ice-maiden’s 1967 debut solo album, Chelsea Girl.

The new band treatment of The Birds Of St. Marks sees Browne (acoustic guitar), Val McCallum (electric guitar), Don Heffington (drums), and Bob Glaub (bass) joined by Greg Leisz on 12-string guitar, while McCallum and Kipp Lennon stir essence of Crosby into the vocal harmonies. The interplay between Val McCallum and Greg Leisz on this album the effortlessness of their chemistry is a gift really, enthuses Browne.

The album, Standing In The Breach, is available for pre-order now through Amazon and digitally through iTunes. Browne is currently on tour solo, to be joined by a full band in the States from September 14 and in the UK from November 17. For more detail on dates, visit www.jacksonbrowne.com.

Jackson Browne The Birds Of St. Marks

August 18, 2014

Hoy estrenamos la nueva cancin de Jackson Browne, The Birds of St. Marks. Es un tema conocido por los fans del msico, pues ya lo incluy anteriormente en el disco acstico Solo Acoustic, Vol. 1 y lo haba interpretado en directo, pero nunca lo haba grabado en estudio hasta ahora con banda.

Esta composicin de pop-rock clsico con aliento de folk es el primer single de adelanto de Standing In the Breach, el nuevo disco del veterano singer songwriter, emblema de la cancin de autor elctrica de California. El disco sale a la venta el prximo 7 de octubre.

Ya sexagenario, Jackson Browne no publicaba material nuevo desde el ao 2008.

El lbum, que hace el nmero 14 en su discografa, fue grabado junto a lo que Browne define como su “banda ideal”: Val McCallum (guitarras), Mauricio Lewak (batera), Jeff Young (teclados), Bob Glaub (bajo) y Greg Leisz (guitarra, lap steel, pedal steel).

Jackson Browne Returns to an Old Favorite Hear The Birds of St. Marks

August 18, 2014

Six years after Time the Conqueror, a Bush-era LP that found him addressing subjects like Hurricane Katrina and the Iraq War, Jackson Browne is preparing to release Standing in the Breach, a new studio album due October 7th. For the lead single, the singer-songwriter returned to “The Birds of St. Marks,” a tune he wrote when he was playing guitar with Nico in the late Sixties, and recruited his new ensemble of musicians to give the track a fuller arrangement.

“I was freeloading off friends on the Lower East Side,” Browne says. “I came to New York with no money at all, and I got this job playing for Nico, which sort of saved me because I had nothing going. I was suggested for the job by Tim Buckley. I went to go see Tim, whom I knew, and Nico was there with Sterling Morrison backing her up. And other nights it would be Lou Reed I guess. She actually offered the job to Tim Buckley, but he started laughing and said, ‘I don’t think she realizes that I have gigs!'”

“The Birds of St. Marks,” in turn, was inspired partly by the singer’s admiration for Byrds guitarist Jim McGuinn: “This is a song I always heard as a Byrds song, and that was even part of the writing of the song because Nico loved the Byrds. She even said on a couple of occasions, ‘Oh, you can play something like Jim McGuinn?'” Her tastes were really eclectic. She also knew Ornette Coleman and he was really responsible for the way she began to play the pump organ. He told her, ‘Yeah, you should play the melody with your left hand.’ And she thought that McGuinn was like an avant-garde guitarist.”

The finished version of the song features Greg Leisz playing a McGuinn-esque 12-string guitar and can be streamed here. Browne, meanwhile, is in the middle of a tour that includes stops at venues like New York’s Beacon Theatre, Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium and London’s Royal Albert Hall.

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Jackson Browne Announces U.S. And U.K. Fall Tour Dates In Support Of His New Studio Album To Be Released October 6/7

July 15, 2014

Band Shows Begin At The Kennedy Center In September, Ending In November At Londons Royal Albert Hall

Singer-songwriter Jackson Browne announces fall tour dates in the U.S and U.K to support his new studio album, Standing In The Breach, scheduled for release on October 6 (international) and 7 (U.S.). The fall shows with Jackson and his band begin on September 14 at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. and end on November 24, at Londons Royal Albert Hall. new studio album can be pre-ordered with each purchased concert ticket, and is also available for pre-order now thru Amazon at:
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Accompanying Jackson on the road this fall 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 fourteenth 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 solo tour thru August 23rd, with two (2) band shows on August 4 and 5, in a co-bill with John Fogerty at PNC Bank Arts Center (Holmdel, NJ) and Jones Beach (Wantagh, NY).

For more information, visit www.jacksonbrowne.com.

SUMMER 2014 TOUR DATES:
Solo Acoustic
July 15 – Riverside Theater – Milwaukee, WI
July 16 – Overture Center for the Art -Madison, WI
July 18 – State Theater – Minneapolis, MN
July 19 – Paramount Theatre Cedar -Rapids, IA
July 21 – Orpheum – Wichita, KS

Full Band shows
August 4 – PNC Bank Arts Ctr (with John Fogerty) – Holmdel, NJ
August 5 – Nikon At Jones Beach (with John Fogerty) – Wantagh, NY

Solo Acoustic
August 9 – State Theatre Center for the Arts – Easton, PA
August 11 – Artpark – Lewistown, NY
August 13 – The Landmark Theatre – Syracuse, NY
August 14 – The Palace Theatre – Albany, NY
August 16 – Boston Opera House – Boston, MA
August 17 – Merrill Auditorium – Portland, ME
August 19 – Capitol Center – Concord, NH
August 20 – Providence PAC – Providence, RI
August 22 – Toyota Presents the Oakdale Theatre – Wallingford, CT
August 23 – Hippodrome Theatre – Baltimore, MD

FALL TOUR (U.S)
Full Band
September – 14 Kennedy Center – Washington, DC
September – 27 Newport Folk Fest Presents Way Over Yonder – Santa Monica, CA
October 4 – Strand Capitol Performing Arts Center -York, PA
October 7 – Beacon Theatre -New York, NY
October 10 – Academy of Music- Philadelphia, PA
October 12 – Benedum Center – Pittsburgh, PA
October 14 – Chicago Theatre – Chicago, IL
October 15 – E.J. Thomas Performing Arts Hall- Akron, OH
October 17 – Palace Theatre – Columbus, OH
October 18 – Murat Theatre – Indianapolis, IN

FALL TOUR (U.K.)
Full Band
November 17 – Symphony Hall – Birmingham, UK
November 18 – Bridgewater Hall – Manchester, UK
November 20 – The Sage – Gateshead, UK
November 21 – Royal Concert Hall – Glasgow, UK
November 24 – Royal Albert Hall – London, UK

Jackson Browne, Loretta Lynn Among Top Americana Honorees

July 8, 2014

by Adam Gold – Rolling Stone

Known the world over for such hits as “Running on Empty,” “Somebody’s Baby” and “Doctor My Eyes,” and revered for classic albums the likes of Late for the Sky and The Pretender, Browne straddles the roots-y space between Sixties folk, Seventies song-craft and country-tinged classic AM radio rock that defines the Frankenstein DNA of Americana. His contributions to the Eagles, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Nico and Linda Ronstadtcatalogs alone — including penning “Take It Easy” and “These Days”; and not to mention basically teaching longtime friend Glenn Frey the discipline of songwriting — are a lifetime achievement unto themselves. Browne will receive the AMA’s “Spirit of Americana, Free Speech in Music Award,” which is presented in conjunction with the First Amendment Center.

“In Seventies post-Vietnam America, there was no album that captured the fall from Eden; the long, slow after-burn of the Sixties — its heartbreak, its disappointments, its spent possibilities — better than Jackson’s masterpiece Late for the Sky,” Bruce Springsteensaid of Browne’s 1974 signature LP in his 2004 speech inducting the singer into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. “When those car doors slam at the end of the record, they still bring tears. And there was no more searching, yearning, loving music made for and about America at the time.”

Lynn will receive AMA’s Lifetime Achievement Award for Songwriting. No stranger to such accolades — and a bona fide trailblazer with a canon boasting such indelible classics as “Don’t Come Home a Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ on Your Mind),” “I’m a Honky Tonk Girl,” “Dear Uncle Sam” and “Rated X” — the 82-year-old living legend is already a Country Music Hall of Fame member and, like Browne, a Songwriters’ Hall of Fame inductee, as well. Lynn’s hard-worn, rags-to-riches life story was immortalized on celluloid in the classic 1980 Academy Award-winning biopic Coal Miner’s Daughter — based on her best-selling autobiography named after her most iconic song.

But the singer’s story didn’t end there. Lynn’s 2004 Jack White-produced, Grammy winning smash Van Lear Rose ignited a twilight career resurgence for the singer, who still tours to this day. This makes Lynn’s third lifetime achievement award. She received at the 2010 Grammy Awards, in addition to receiving a Kennedy Center Honor in 2003.

Harlem-hailing, genre-journeying multi-instrumentalist Taj Mahal (nee Henry Saint Clair Fredericks) is being honored in AMA’s Lifetime Achievement category for Performance. The voracious musicologist has had an incalculable influence on the blues by way of integrating styles ranging from jazz, folk, country, gospel, rock, R&B and zydeco, to reggae, Latin, Carribean, African and beyond, over a 40-plus-year career. Fredericks, 72, has inspired and performed with heavy hitters like the Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton and Etta James. A two-time Grammy winner, he first rose to fame in the early Sixties alongside Ry Cooder in California blues-folk outfit the Rising Sons.

Somewhat of a wild card among this class of recipients, but by no means less deserving of the honor, Grammy winning Texas accordion virtuoso Flaco Jimenez — whose country, rock and tejano punch card includes names the likes of Bob Dylan, Doug Sahm, Dr. John, Carlos Santana, The Mavericks, Dwight Yoakam, Buck Owens, Ry Cooder and the Rolling Stones — gets the AMA Lifetime Achievement Award for Instrumentalist.

Previous Americana Lifetime Achievement honorees include Levon Helm, Emmylou Harris, Dr. John, Bonnie Raitt, Gram Parsons, John Fogerty, Gregg Allman, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Townes Van Zandt, Wanda Jackson, Joe Ely, Jason and the Scorchers, Duane Eddy, John Mellencamp, Guy Clark, Cowboy Jack Clement, Joan Baez, John Prine, Billy Joe Shaver, Willie Nelson, Lyle Lovett, Old Crow Medicine Show, Sam Phillips and T Bone Burnett.

Lynn, Browne, Fredericks and Jimenez will be celebrated as part of the Americana Honors and Awards Ceremony September 17th at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. The event kicks off AmericanaFest 2014. Now in its 15^th year, the festival and conference runs September 17^th through 21^st and will feature 160 acts at various Nashville venues. Appearing artists include the Avett Brothers, Lee Ann Womack, Marty Stuart, Rodney Crowell, Hayes Carll, Rhett Miller, Billy Joe Shaver, Tony Joe White, Robyn Hitchcock, Buddy Miller and more.

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