Jackson Browne - Solo Acoustic, Vol. 1
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Free Music Notes for Solo Acoustic, Vol. 1
Free Music Review: Bruce Springsteen for intellectuals
Hit: 5 Stars
Awesome CD. Excellent songs, voice, and sound. The acoustic setup takes away most of the 'retro' feel that comes with the original recordings and the result is a much more contemporary sounding collection of pieces. Free Music Review: Quality Jackson
Hit: 5 Stars
Very nice compilation of classic Jackson Browne music in a live setting. HIs stories between songs are entertaining without being overwhelmingly "live". Any fan of Jackson will love this pure sound.Free Music Review: 4.5 stars... long overdue but oh-so worth it
Hit: 2 Stars
(I accidentally released the review with only 2 stars and now it won't let me correct that... I really rate it 4.5 Stars)
Jackson Browne is an American icon. He has written top-notch songs for more than 30 years. A terrific live performer, strangely he has released only 1 live album in his long and storied career and that was a full band release (1977's "Running on Empty"). Finally now comes this solo live album, featuring Jackson Browne mostly on guitar, sometimes on piano.
"Solo Acoustic Vol. 1" (20 tracks, 70 min.) brings 12 songs and 8 spoken introductions. It's the intros that give the album's warmth. Browne talks to his audience with humor and grace. Listen to him reminisce how he wrote "These Days" as a 16 year old. Laugh along when he tells about someone once requesting "Peaceful Easy Feeling" (the Eagles song!) and Browne complying and messing up the words (he had never sung it before). Among the songs, the appearance of the rare "The Birds of St. Marks" make this truly special. Other highlights include the piano-ballad "Fountain of Sorrow", "The Pretender" and the closer "Take It Easy" (which Browne co-wrote with Glenn Frey, to the surprise of many people). But there really isn't a weak moment on this selection.
In all this is an essential and most welcome addition to the Jackson Browne catalogue. Teasingly subtitled "Volume 1", I can't wait for more releases of Jackson Browne's solo performances. Highly recommended!
Free Music Review: News Flash! Jackson Browne is a Big Lefty!
Hit: 4 Stars
Geez y'all. The guy organized the No Nukes Concerts and played a series of concerts behind "Lives In The Balance" that were as virulently anti-war as they came. And all of a sudden everyone is shocked that he might actually take a stand against war from the stage? Grow up gang. He's an unabashed folkie from the first album on, and that usually means - from Pete Seeger to Woody Guthrie to Bruce Springsteen - that the music has a somewhat leftward lean.
What is so amazing to me is that, other than the little spoken outro from and the song "Lives In The Balance," this CD is essentially a showcase for Browne as a guitarist and singer-songwriter and hardly registers politically in any other dimension. Despite the rather fallow spell in his writing since "I'm Alive," these cherry-picked songs represent one of America's finest of the California crop to have come of age in the late seventies. The poignancy of "Lives In The Balance" is that it was written about President Reagen's seeming drive to war in Latin America in 1986 and the USA's interference in said region (remember Iran-Contra anybody?). Now some twenty years later, the lyric seems disturbingly prophetic:
"I want to know who the men in the shadows are.
I want to hear somebody asking them why
they can be counted on to tell us who our enemies are,
but they're never the ones to fight and to die."
So all you conservative crybabies who can't stomach the fact that we're trapped in the quicksand of the Middle East and Jackson Browne makes a teenie tiny reference (less than a minute) to his thoughts on the topic, learn to use your CD burner and skip the offending passage. Or better yet, go cue up another Toby Keith or Charlie Daniels CD. I am happy to listen to listen to gems of song like "The Barricades Of Heaven" or "For A Dancer." When he gets to the piano of "The Pretender," you'll understand why Browne's "Solo Acoustic Volume 1" is a Grammy Nominee (in the folk category) for 2006.
One suggestion...I would love to hear "I Am A Patriot" on Volume II, and please, some kind of liner notes and recording information.
Free Music Review: Bring it On
Hit: 5 Stars
Whether you're a longtime fan or just looking for some laid back acoustic Rock, you're in for a treat.
I can't wait for Vol 2!