Author Archives: JBAdmin
Jackson Browne Announces 2015 Japan Tour
November 10, 2014
Jackson Browne Announces 2015 Japan Tour In Support Of His New Album, Standing In The Breach — Advance Tickets Available Now
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
Jackson Browne Announces Italian 2015 Tour Dates
November 7, 2014
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.
Jackson Browne: Standing In The Breach Album Review
October 7, 2014
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.
Read MoreJackson Browne, Standing in the Breach The Interview
October 7, 2014
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.
Read MoreAn Interview with Jackson Browne
October 7, 2014
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.
Read More‘Like Opening A Book In The Middle’: Jackson Browne Returns To An Old Song
October 6, 2014
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.
Read MoreJackson Browne Interview – Sunday Night on DIRECTV
October 3, 2014
Hear Jackson’s interview with Sam Jones on Off Camera
The show airs this Sunday night on:
DIRECTV Channel 500
10:00EST and 7:00/10:00 PST
MOJO – Stream Jackson Browne’s New Album!
October 2, 2014
Danny Eccleston – MOJO
JACKSON BROWNE releases Standing In The Breach, his 14th studio album, next week. Recorded in Los Angeles, it foregrounds themes of love, hope and defiance. And lucky old MOJO readers youre getting to hear the whole thing before anyone else
MusicRadar Jackson Browne talks guitars, production and new album Standing In The Breach
October 1, 2014
A sort of jammy, friendly kind of arrangement is at the heart of it.
You notice something very striking about Jackson Browne when listening to his new album, Standing In The Breach. Beyond its myriad, rich and sublime attributes – the dreamy bed of Byrds-like guitars on The Birds Of St. Marks, the spellbinding transposition to song of an unpublished Woody Guthrie letter, along with Browne’s engrossing examinations of human bonds and social-political concerns – there’s the singer’s sweet and soulful voice: It’s as pure and present as it’s ever been, an instrument that is, it would seem, ageless.
Browne laughs in almost an “aw, shucks” manner when I compliment him on his singing and how, unlike so many other veteran performers his age (he turns 66 on October 6), it doesn’t sound as if he’s making any noticeable allowances for changes in his vocal range. “The truth is, I never really liked my singing very much, especially in the beginning,” he says. “Then, at a certain point, I got comfortable with the way I sang because it seemed to work, especially live. I’d realize how not to do stuff that doesn’t work. I’m still settling for a kind of limited palate.”
The singer does admit to “studying” his voice in recent years, even going to see what he calls a “vocal repairman.” “I just said, ‘Fuck it, I’m going to figure out how to make some of the sounds I want,” he says. And on the new record, he even made some changes to how he tracked songs, focusing on one number at a time and sticking with it until he was happy with his vocal performance. “It worked out well, singing one song until I was finished rather than trying to sing them all at once,” he says. “It also allowed me to get a different sound on certain vocal so that they wouldn’t be engulfed by the tracks.’ Each vocal would hold its own.”
Browne recorded Standing In The Breach at his own Santa Monica-based facility, Groove Masters, with a group of players he’s worked with for years – among them, guitarists Greg Leisz, Val McCallum and Mark Goldenberg; drummers Jim Keltner and Mauricio Lewak; bassists Bob Glaub and Kevin McKormick – as well as some notable guests like keyboardist Benmont Tench, drummer Pete Thomas, bassist Tal Wilkenfeld, singer-songwriter Jonathan Wilson and Dawes frontman Taylor Goldsmith.
Browne sat down with MusicRadar recently to talk about recording the new album, the guitars he used, his own style of fingerpicking, politics in music, producing other artists and his recollections of the late Stevie Ray Vaughan. (Jackson Browne’s Standing In The Breach, due out October 7, can be pre-ordered at iTunes, Amazon and at this link.)
Read MoreRolling Stone Germany – Pre-Listening: Jackson Browne – Standing In The Breach
September 30, 2014
Hren sie bei uns vorab und exklusiv das neue Album von Jackson Browne: “Standing In The Breach”.
Am 6. 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.)
Read More