Jackson Browne

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.

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‘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.”…

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Jackson 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.)

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