10 Things You Didn't Know About Jackson Browne 

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Took a break from him because of his activism ... then I grew up and realized his songs were as much a part of me as anything in my memory. Then I fell in love with his stuff all again. Man ... I still get wiped out listening to “Something Fine”. He has no peer in songwriting. There are other greats I love, but he has held a special place in my psyche for decades. Age well, my friend.

Solo Acoustic. The courage to take his music out to the public in a stripped down version and then ask what he should play. Brave. Fantastic albums, both of them.

Jackson is very gracious, kind, and respectful.

My older brother got me into Jackson, when I was 15,have been a fan of his for 40 yrs ,have seen him 3 times live, 5th row center each time. His music soothes my soul every time.

For A Dancer. All his music changes as I get older, and I sometimes, it's like I am hearing for the first time, as I focus differently.

That girl could sing always reminds me of my wife, "She wasn't much good at sticking around but that girl could sing" Brings me to tears every time I hear the song.... 💕 I love you Eve, always have, always will, I miss you dearly! Please come home...💕 😌

Will always be grateful that Jackson got Warren Zevon signed to a record deal as Warren is my favorite artist of all-time. Love that Jackson still plays Warren's songs. Jackson's records also introduced me to another favorite...David Lindley. Jackson Browne has long tentacles and has been a friend, mentor and "big brother" to so many of the 70's LA artists. Thanks for 50 years of enjoyment, my friend.

Jackson Browne is music for the soul,

Jackson is the best lyricist of all time, in my opinion... and his voice is so pure and simple so the melody and lyrics really shine. One of my fondest dreams - something I desperately want to do before I die - is sing backup for Jackson Browne. Doesn't even have to be on stage or in front of anyone. Just one song, harmonizing together. Preferably something from Late for the Sky or I'm Alive, but I'm flexible.

I have loved Jackson Browne since i was a child, and I hope new generations of music lovers will discover how truly widespread his brilliance is. Legend....barely begins to cover him. God bless and keep him safe with us for many years to come.

Jackson Browne has always spoken to my soul.

I love Jackson Browne! Have seen him dozens of times, live, and was never disappointed! My all time favorite song is Bright Baby Blues, although, I love nearly every song he's made. Congratulations, on all your amazing accomplishments, plus being a great person, too!

I was just a kid when most of this stuff was recorded now that I am an old fart, his music is even more meaningful. I just simply love the music of Jackson Browne

One of my top favorite albums (yes, albums!) by any artist is "For Everyman". Since 1973, I still play it regularly, albeit on CD now. Every song on the album is an absolute favorite of mine.

When I was at university and working as a stage hand at the concert venue, Jackson Browne allowed me play the Bösendorfer grand piano he was using on that tour. 40+ years later I still remember what a fantastic, friendly and genuinely nice guy he was to a random university student.

Just listened to the entire Running on Empty album. Every once in a while ya gotta pull the old albums out and reminisce. Next is The Pretender

I named my son after him. My Jackson is now 30.

My very first concert was America (during Horse With No Name fame) with Jackson Browne as their opening act in 1972. I was just 14 years old but I knew even then I was witnessing something special with both performances. Jackson's first album, Saturate Before Using, is still hauntingly beautiful and my personal favorite.

#12 Jackson Brown was arrested along with thousands of others at the Abalone Alliance Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant protest near San Luis Obispo in 1981. I know because I was there. Wavy Gravy was arrested too and wearing a Santa Claus suit and actor Robert Blake was arrested too. The men who were arrested were taken to a school gymnasium converted to a "jail" with 3" mattresses on the floor and guards standing at each door. The buses were brought in one by one as the cops filled them up and the prisoners were unloaded and processed as each buss arrived. When each bus arrived the man made a big circle inside the gym and chanted "Om" until each bus load was processed. The cops were freaking out at first because they didn't know what we were going to do with all that energy. We remained calm and in good spirits. We had educational classes during the day taught by our fellow "inmates", and each night we had a talent show with the different affinity groups coming up with skits and performances. The second night during the talent show a guard carried a black acoustic guitar over his head across the gym floor with hundreds of men watching and then gave the guitar to Jackson on the stage and he sang several songs. After that, Jackson closed each nights talent show with a couple songs. Many of us stayed for up to 6 or 7 days because the cops were so unprepared to process us out with own-recognizance releases. After a couple years we were informed that the district attorney dropped all charges against the over 2,000 men and women arrested over the two weeks of protests.

#11 thing you didn't know about JB - he's been a lifelong surfer, since the early 60's!!

Jackson Browne makes the world a better place, especially "These Days."

Jackson Browne sets the bar higher as a musician and an American. Wish I could meet and talk with him one day.

I was at the Merriweather Post Pavilion where Jackson recorded Running on Empty along with The Load Out and Stay. My girlfriend and I had driven down from Philly for the concert and it was one of the best I've ever seen. I was already a fan since 1972 and still go to see him every chance I get.

Jackson is the poet/lyricist for the thinking fan! many of the most personal, thoughtful and intelligent songs in the English language!

I was at the Merriweather Post Pavillion concert when Running on Empty was recorded. Was about 10 rows back right in Front of him. The concert was a blast.

will always love Jackson browne and all he stands for .

I love JB ♡ just saw him 2 nights ago in Nornthern California and he was fantastic ♡ beautiful soul, beautiful voice....

Not that this is his only accomplishment, but he writes without s doubt the best "break-up songs" of any songwriter ever., with the short, incredibly poignant "Late For The Sky" still at the top of the list. He's written some newer beauties, like the breathtaking "Sky Blue and Black" and "Too Many Angles", but to me, nothing can match the perfection of 'Late For The Sky"". .... "Looking hard into your eyes, there was nobody I'd ever known" .... the ability to write a line like that, conveying so much depth and breath of feeling and meaning in so few words, is to me the epitome of what makes him one of our all-time greatest songwriters and poets.

You didnt know Jackson was one of the members of The Nitty Gritty Dirty Band! I know because my bother is the drummer Harmonica Jimmie Fadden we grew up togeather

Yes, Jackson Browne always light up my heart and make me feel happy and home, no matter where I am. His voice and his epic songs are always on my most favourite playlist- magic!

every single song he has written is a movie the best there is

He is my all time favorite. We share the same birthday. I've seen him 5 times. Loved every show!!!!!!!

and I was at the Merriweather Post Pavilion concert - love you JB!!!!

As for "celebs" there is nobody i love more than Jackson. I saw him in 78 and 04. In 78 Rosie and David were with the band, the "Running on Empty" tour. Jackson seemed so shy at such a young age, but his music was so very very good. To this day ( Aug 2, 2023) and counting, he is and always will be my favorite singer/songwriter/musician. I adore him and all of his music.

JB has been my musical idol since the first time I heard Doctor, My Eyes while in college. There are a lot of great songwriters out there, but his combination of introspection, social action and poetry make him, for me, the best. For Everyman and Late for the Sky, along with Abbey Road, are my favorite all time albums. Looking Into You, These Days, and In the Shape of a Heart, are just a perfect trio of songs

Thank you Manthoughts for hi lighting Mr. Jackson Browne this way. He truly deserves to be celebrated. His values, songs and messages have been an incredible inspiration to live and love. He makes it so clear that you have to feel the loss or absence of love to know what it is in the first place. He puts it like no one else. Such a man.

He was there as I grew through that time of boy to man. Influencing my thoughts about my world and my place in it. Truly he was like a family member. Thru the good and not so good. Thank you sir.

I have listened to him since I was 13.I am now 60,I will continue on ,I love his music.

great music influencer and antinuclear and ecology advocate, long live Mr Browne

tender is the night my alltime favorite excellent lyrics and melody

I'm considerably older than you...and from the US....so that was more like 3 things I didn't know about Jackson Browne. I'm delighted your talking points was on him though. He's been one of my favorite artists since I was in 8th grade.

I'm a huge fan since the 60's. I love Jackson's music. A Legend in my life.

I was there, both nights, Merriweather Post Pavilion, 1977.

After finding some of these facts, I have more respect than ever for Jackson Browne

Jackson is undoubtedly one of the best singer songwriters of our generation, songs of substance,reality romance and life in the heart of America starting with his earlier albums like "late for the sky" "for every man" and of course "the pretender"; the latter being the one the propelled him to the 'star status' he carries with him to this very day all the while maintaining his humbleness hippiness honesty topped with a splash of humour for coolness,all in casual California style modest in nature; he can still bring a tear to my eye from the context of lyrics he so easily delivers. Jackson please try and come back to Alberta just one last time, so I can bring my grandchildren to the show to witness true authentic easy listening music that lasts and lasts and lasts cause it's cleansing to shine on&on&on&on&never gets old,just fresher

"The Fuse" all time fav by JB

Hi Jackson I'm Rosie from New York City how are you feeling my dear friend and brother you're absolutely brilliant I've been a fan of yours since I was a kid

I love the hold out album

Cool video, several things I didn't know. I was one of the people in the audience at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in 1977. My girlfriend and I drove down from Philadelphia. They also recorded The Load Out and Stay there, for the Running On Empty album. That album and The Pretender are my two favorites.

I begun to like Jackson in 72, maybe it was 73. I lost my father in 72 was the last Saturday of November. I joined the Corps in November 74 and then he came out with the wonderful "Pretender" album, While I'm in the Corp. This whole album felt as if he wrote it for me! "Daddy's Tune" hit me rather hard as did "The Only Child" these were songs that I "felt" and grieved with, they continue to bring tears and are a reminder of a loss of someone dear. Thank you Jackson for walking with me and sharing your wonderful heart felt articulation.

11th thing you didn't know about Jackson - he's a surfer!! Owns a home on the Hollister Ranch where THE BEST surf in California is found.

He is an absolute living legend. One of my idols.

My very fave JB song is: FARTHER ON from Late for the Sky.

Thank you so much for making this. I am a big fan so seeing him getting good publicity is alays good :)

Interesting facts about Jackson! Seeing him live Saturday @Bethel Woods, NY, a year after tour was postponed from 1010 due to pandemic!

Jackson Brown bought a 1936 Epiphone acou. the day before I had enough to get it. Chelsea Guitar sold it to him on a Sat. 10 years ago & I still can't get that guitar out of me head. For me, it was perfect. Someday, I hope to find a guitar to sound as good as that one did to me. But Jackson, I do hope that guitar served you well.

Saw him at Merriweather, he's still fantastic. If he comes to your area, go see him. Truly a legend.

Running on empty - the best

First don't I learned to play was Before the Deluge. Thus began my journey with his music and lyrics.

Fact 11, Not only did Jackson write Take it Easy, and These Days, he did so at just age 16 showing an amazingly precocious and mature level of talent at a very very young age. Something that was quickly noticed by the older established artists such as the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band long before super groups like the Eagles stepped up and made a fortune on his material!

🥀Amazing Man! Thanks for posting this video🥀

NUMBER FOUR IS ONLY HALF CORRECT: Warren Zevon actually DID MOVE TO SPAIN after getting discouraged with his lack of true musical success. Jackson Browne LURED HIM BACK TO THE USA, with a letter advising that he had secured a recording contract for Zevon with Asylum Records. (It should be noted that Zevon apparently made a low-rent living while in Spain, playing in a local bar; it was there that he and David Lindell first wrote "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner", so the time was spent well).

How many people know that he is virtually "Standing on a Corner in Winslow Arizona" ? You can find him there! Check it out.

I LOVE YOU JACKSON ! ~ LIVING LEGEND !!!

we need him now march 2020

Wonderful man, activist and music. Thank you for sharing...

Nicely done. Loved this.

His song "For Everyman" was the un "Wooden Ships"

Can't wait to see Jackson here in Glasgow in June.

I played his music in my room in college and we all studied to him. Then we saw him when he came to our campus.

An outstandingly talented man! And a good human being!

This is great. Thx

I'm a Republican and love me some Jackson Browne. For A Dancer and Call It A Loan. Hands down my favorites.

love them stash of acoustic guitars he takes with him on tour!!!😰

i was at a concert during the1977 tour, the concerts that the Running on Empty album was recorded from. I was at one of the last ones, in LA at the Universal Amplitheater. mid September, that's when the recording was done. i remember it ending with the load out and Stay, which went on and on and on and on, just getting higher and higher. i still have the tee shirt i got at that concert, it's the picture of him from his first album cover, with the words Jackson Browne and Los Angeles on it. it's the only jackson concert i've ever been to. i haven't been to a lot of concerts in my life but i've been to some historic ones, Dylan at Hollywood Bowl sept 3 1965, just the second concert with an electric set, a few days after the Highway 61 Revisited album was released, nobody had ever heard Desolation Row before that night, or Ballad of a Thin Man. Saw Dylan and the Band on 2/14/74 which was their last ever tour concert together, the Before the Flood concert album was recorded at that performance. I consider that Jackson Running on Empty concert historic. it was at the peak of the intensity of his mushrooming fame and popularity, his songs, especially Running on Empty, just nailed it, what a lot of people were going through. a lot of us, in 65 we were 17, runnin up 101. in 69 we were 21 and called the road our own, ended up all kinds of other roads, not knowing where, definitely running on empty and coping with some drugs. The other jackson memory i have is that in 2004 february, a friend took me to the Grammies, not something i ever would have gotten to do in my life, just happened to be with that guy that year. my friend knew Jackson, friend was a session musician, had played with jackson, he knew other people jackson played with better, Bonnie Raitt, Danny O'Keefe. The grammies was right after Warren Zevon had just died, and my friend told me that jackson browne was putting on a wake for warren zevon that night after the grammies, at McCabes guitar shop in Santa Monica, it was a small venue for music performances as well as a guitar shop. so my friend said maybe if we go and act like we belong there we can get in, and we did, we just walked in, eating catered stuff like strawberries. Then, the musicians started performing, doing Warren songs, jamming on the songs, it was loose, Warren's son did a couple of solo performances. Jackson was playing, in the background, and just watching over the whole thing, like, not running it, but watching over it, nurturing the gathering. i had the impression he was avoiding attention because he didn't want it to be about him, just guessing.

Hey, my mom's cousins dad is Jackson Browne!

I love his Music. Gosh, I’m not going to tell you how long I’ve been listening to him. It’s been a while. 🌹🍄♥️

Linda Palomia my favorite song

Tender is the night 👏🏻

Excellent video retro-future-spective-dude. JB rules and rocks at the Barricades of Heaven. But aren't we all stuck there, too? Et Purgatorio?

Wow great video man. The only thing I could say is maybe lower the volume of the music it was a bit hard to hear you in a few parts. Keep up the good work.

Yes he does. When we seem him n concert at the Peace Center. he was AWESOME!

I love Jackson Browne,but I also love Dan Fogelberg! I believe he desrves as much acclaim as Jackson Browne,or more! Dan was great in so many different genres of music,and he played the lead guitar,or piano,etc,etc! His songs can be very complex,and just as profound as were Mr. Browne's songs! Sincerely,BobbyK

Jackson is an amazing man!!! Very interesting!

And, his first name is really "Clyde." Seriously!

He lived in my neighborhood early on. Echo Park.

What is it for a song (guitar) in the background from 4: 50min???

Lives In The Balance came out as Reagan was carrying out his murder campaign in Central America--counter-revolutionaires in Nicaragua, death squads everywhere else. I used to listen to that and Bruce Cockburn's Stealing Fire all the time. Still two of my favorite albums.

and... he went to Sunny Hills High in Fullerton,Ca. well he was enrolled anyhow :)

How Running on Empty didn't make the top 500 I'll never know!

11. He went from flat to fluffy with Prell.

Doctor My Eyes. Period.

"His songs have featured on the silver screen" -- Revelatory and mind blowing. Slow down, now.

Another fact - he wrote the Eagles song "Take It Easy" and was actually standing on a corner in Flagstaff, AZ, *not Winslow, AZ* with he wrote the song...

How about this one? His first band was the Soft White Underbelly, a pre-cursor of Blue Oyster Cult.

Sing My Songs/For Everyman is my favorite societal song but having a favorite is not really possible. Before The Deluge works very well for climate change (though written about nuclear energy) and prophetic. For A Dancer will be played at my wake. Running On Empty best describes my feeling toward this thing called life. I've been in love with him since 1977.

He's an amazing musician song writer. He's one of the best! 🎹 🎼 🎸

I knew all these, but hey !

Roll on June 2017 Dublin.