2025 Charity Shop Purchases # 63 - Jackson Browne
I can't say that I have ever been a huge fan of singer songwriter Jackson Browne.
I have a battered second hand vinyl copy of his 1976 album The Pretender and a CD burn of The Very Best of Jackson Browne from the sadly missed Record Library and that was my lot.
However I felt morally obliged to fork of 49p for a CD copy of Lawyers in Love from Cancer Research in Stranraer given the paucity of purchases in recent visits to the town.
From 1983 on the Asylum label it is his seventh studio album.It is a relatively short album with only 8 tracks and a running time of only 35 minutes and 21 pence. Just as well I only forked out 49p!
It is pleasant enough but nothing special. As things stand it is a keeper but it is unlikely to survive any future cull should space once more become a premium.
I'll stick to the music of Palau
ReplyDeleteThis could well become a theme!
DeleteI've just played all the tracks you posted (on vol. 237), and they are still a great listen. Unlike Wishbone Four.
DeleteI'm not a huge fan either, but these two songs awaken warm feelings of nostalgia. I was addicted to MTV in 1983 (the first year the channel came to my town), and these were heavily in the rotation. That would only happen to Browne one more time. MTV liked You're a Friend of Mine in 1985 because of the Springsteen connection to Clarence Clemons and the popularity of Daryl Hannah. Both were on the song and video.
ReplyDeleteThey sum up MTV well
DeleteI like this album a lot, but... see above. ;-)
ReplyDeleteNot really a fan either but thanks to the music library here in Sheffield who seemed to specialise in Jackson Browne albums, I came to know his 70s and 80s output quite well and as a result, like Brian, his songs evoke a nostalgia for that era.
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