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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.)

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.

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