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RTVE.es estrena Standing in the breach, el nuevo disco de Jackson Browne
September 30, 2014
El dcimo cuarto disco en estudio del cantautor ver la luz el 7 de octubre. “The birds of St. Marks”, primer single, fue compuesta originalmente en 1967. Jackson Browne presentar el disco en una gira por EE.UU y Reino Unido
RTVE.es estrena este martes Standing in the breach, el dcimo cuarto disco en estudio del cantautor estadounidense Jackson Browne. Standing in the breach, que ver la luz el prximo 7 de octubre, es un trabajo “con rasgos claramente personales y polticos, donde explora en profundidad temas como el amor, la esperanza y desafa de cara algunas de las incertidumbres que acontecen en la vida moderna”, segn la nota de prensa que acompaa al lanzamiento.
El disco, que cuenta con diez temas, se abre con “The birds of St. Marks”, que ha sido elegido como single del lanzamiento. Se trata de una cancin que Browne compuso en los inicios de su carrera, en 1967, despus de regresar a California tras una breve estancia en Nueva York.
Link to Article RTVE.es estrena Standing in the breach, el nuevo disco de Jackson BrowneEsquire Magazine Exclusive: Listen to Jackson Browne’s Yeah Yeah
September 29, 2014
“It’s like going to the pound and rescuing a dog,” Jackson Browne says of his penchant for picking up cheap, unusual guitars on eBay. “You know, ‘Let me make something out of this.'”
Whether it’s his undying love for the guitar or his ability to wring a great song out of thin air, Browne seems as inspired as ever on Standing in the Breach, his new album due out October 7 on Inside Recordings, as well as on his current tour.
The album, which features essentially the same band that Browne has used in his recordings and tours since 1993’s I’m Alive, harks back to the legendary songwriter’s best work, and will be a welcome addition for any fan of his music, especially those who favor his classic, early-’70s recordings. It’s been exactly six years since Browne’s last studio album, Time the Conqueror, though the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer has released several live albums in the past decade.
“I’ve been more or less productive at different times in my life, but I had to become more industrious to get this album made,” Browne admits of his latest. “I put as much into the writing of the songs as I ever have with anything I’ve ever done, but when I started it wasn’t in the context of record-making. It was more in the context of living and trying to find an approach to certain topics that I figured were important to me and, I think, important to life.”
Remarkably, Standing in the Breach even holds its own against Browne’s landmark 1974 classic Late for the Sky, boasting the songwriter’s finely observed ruminations on love and the space between people. “Here” and “Yeah Yeah,” premiering exclusively here, are prime examples of the sort of writing that Browne is celebrated for.
Link to Article Esquire Magazine Exclusive: Listen to Jackson Browne’s Yeah YeahUSAToday – Hear Jackson Browne’s Standing in the Breach album
September 29, 2014
Standing in the Breach, the new Jackson Browne album premiering at USA TODAY (out Oct. 7), finds the singer/songwriter in a distressed but ultimately hopeful frame of mind.
Take the key line in If I Could Be Anywhere: “If I could be anywhere right now, I would want to be here.” It’s a lyric, and a delivery, worthy of Browne’s most sentimental love songs, but it’s not used that way. Except that it kind of is.
“It is a love song a love song to the oceans, the environment, to future generations,” Browne says. “It’s the idea that there’s a challenge that can only be met while we’re here, both in the sense of being present and also that we’re here at this moment in time. . . .”
Link to Article USAToday – Hear Jackson Browne’s Standing in the Breach albumJeff Bridges, Jessie Bridges And David Crosby Will Join Jackson Browne And Friends At The Benefit For Sanctuary Centers At The Arlington Theatre In Santa Barbara On October 25
September 27, 2014
On October 25th at the Arlington Theatre in Santa Barbara, Jackson Browne and friends, including Jeff Bridges, Jessie Bridges and David Crosby 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 are on sale now 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
Link to Article Jeff Bridges, Jessie Bridges And David Crosby Will Join Jackson Browne And Friends At The Benefit For Sanctuary Centers At The Arlington Theatre In Santa Barbara On October 25Los Angeles Times – Jackson Browne, an old pro with a fresh perspective
September 20, 2014
On Oct. 7 Jackson Browne will release a strong new studio album called ‘Standing in the Breach’
On a recent evening at a North Hollywood rehearsal studio, Jackson Browne was leading his band through his song “About My Imagination” when he raised his hand to halt the musicians. The ensemble included some new members, and though Browne had loved the energy they’d brought to the tune earlier in the practice (during their initial crack at it), now the veteran singer-songwriter feared the freshness had worn off. The music, he said to the players as he peered over his eyeglasses, was beginning to feel too familiar.
“I want to sidestep the pitfall of getting involved in doing something we’ve done before,” he told them.
Nobody’s getting paid much anymore, so people are just getting together for the love of it. – Jackson Browne
That sentiment goes some way toward capturing Browne’s broader outlook, more than 40 years after he established a foothold in the record business, first with songs he wrote or co-wrote for acts such as Nico (“These Days”) and the Eagles (“Take It Easy”), then as a solo artist in Los Angeles alongside James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt. The 65-year-old peppers his concerts like those making up the fall tour he was preparing for this month with the hits that turned him into a soft-rock superstar: “Doctor My Eyes,” “The Pretender,” “Running on Empty.”
But Browne is still creating.
On Oct. 7 he’ll release a strong new studio album called “Standing in the Breach,” with sensitive yet crafty meditations on romance, mortality and what he views as the greed and apathy threatening the environment and the lives of impoverished people in places like Haiti, whose devastating 2010 earthquake served as the basis for the disc’s moving title track. . .
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