Jackson Browne

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.

Jackson 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.

An 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.

‘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.