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Jackson Browne Announces New Album Standing In The Breach Out October 7th On Inside Recordings

August 20, 2014

LOS ANGELES,Aug. 19, 2014/PRNewswire/ — OnOctober 7th,Jackson Brownewill release his 14th studio album,Standing In The Breach. The album was recorded inLos Angelesand features the single “The Birds Of St. Marks,” which debuted yesterday on Rolling Stone and MOJO and is available today for download viaAmazonandiTuneswhen the albumStanding In The Breachis pre-ordered. “RINGING PEALS OF GUITARherald the coming of a great newJackson Brownerelease,” saidMOJO.

“The Birds ofSt. Marks” was originally written in 1967 when Jackson was just 18 and returning home toCaliforniaafter a brief stint living inNew York. The song was recorded as a demo in 1970 and occasionally heard in the live setting as captured on hisSolo Acoustic Vol. 1, but has only now been given the treatment Jackson had originally envisioned.”This is a song I always heard as a Byrds song, and that was even part of the writing of the song,” he toldRolling Stone. The finished version of the song featuresGreg Leiszplaying a “McGuinn-esque 12-string,” described Rolling Stone.Leisz and Jackson were joinedbyVal McCallum(electric guitar),Bob Glaub(bass) andDon Heffington(drums), whileas described in MOJO “McCallum andKipp Lennonstir[ed] essence of Crosby into the vocal harmonies.”

Jackson Brownelaunches an album tour this fall, with band dates starting at The Kennedy Center inWashington DC, and ending at The Royal Albert Hall inLondon, England. He will also appear on The Late Show withDavid LettermanonOctober 6thand CBS This Morning on October 11th. Accompanying Jackson on the road are longtime band matesVal McCallum(guitar),Mauricio Lewak(drums),Jeff Young(keyboards) andBob Glaub(bass), with the addition of acclaimed multi-instrumentalistGreg Leisz(guitar, lap steel, pedal steel).

Standing In The Breach, 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. “The interplay betweenVal McCallumandGreg Leiszon this album – the effortlessness of their chemistry is a gift really, that just dropped into my lap,” says Jackson. The album will be available everywhere onOctober 7th.

Track Listing forStanding In The Breach:
1)The Birds Of St. Marks
2)Yeah Yeah
3)The Long Way Around
4)Leaving Winslow
5)If I Could Be Anywhere
6)You Know The Night
7)Walls And Doors
8)Which Side
9)Standing In The Breach
10)Here

Tour Dates: (MORE TO BE ADDED)

Solo Acoustic
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 FestPresentsWay Over Yonder -Santa Monica, CA
October 4- Strand Capitol Performing Arts Center -York, PA
October 7- Beacon Theatre -New York, NY
October 8- 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

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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