Been a huge fan of Jackson since the very first album. I love his songs, singing and playing. This song has been covered so many times by so many different artists. My new favorite cover is by Rachel Price (Lake Street Dive), accompanied by a wonderful chamber ensemble. Her smooth jazz voice, along with the stringed instruments, plus flute and clarinet, is simply sublime.
My Uncle played drums for Jackson Browne on tour... I was 3 or 4 and I have fond memories of sitting behind uncle John's drum kit and all that shiny chrome and glossy wraps. It's his fault I'm still into making music.
His songs always leave me sitting in silence for a couple minutes after they finish, like some sort of melancholy meditation. Not sure if i love his writing because of this or in spite of it.
This song always breaks my heart, it was the first song on the radio after my dad died. I sat out on the back deck on a hot July Sunday evening and played this on repeat for about 30 minutes.
Leland Sklar played bass on a lot of Brownes stuff. He also played on Jude Cole's album "Start the Car." If you haven't checked it out, it is one of the greatest albums EVER!!
The beauty of Jackson's arrangement for me is the contrast of the reverse Travis picking after the walk down bass verse part. It's not a difficult piece to get down but a big challenge to mimic his subtleties.
I haven't heard this in ages, and it came in today to rip my guts out. I'm facing losing my wife and kids along with her-as brutal as this was to hear, I needed it.
If you would like to hear some great quitar playing, check out the RU-vid acoustic concert with Jackson Browne and his long-time guitarist David Lindley. The music is mesmerizing. Jackson Browne is my absolute favorite singer/songwriter. He has told the stories of my life in his music and i love his passion and love for our planet.
Thanks for the reaction, spot on as always! How he wrote those lyrics at 16 is just beyond me. For anyone on the fence about learning guitar, it is never too late to start. I turn 40 in a month and I'm still learning. Obviously I am extremely grateful to Michael and his teaching style - I fumbled through the fretboard until I took the time to deliberately focus and I loved how he could just listen to a few seconds of a song and know what was happening. Keep picking it up!
You can't possibly know how happy it's made me for you to feature Jackson. I go see him every time he tours over here (U.K) and he's one of the artists of my life. He is the musical poet of your country in just the same way Leonard Cohen was for Canada, he writes lyrics in a way nobody else can do.
IM BACK!!!!!! The perfect time good sir......nobody better than Mr Browne.....I grew up with his music brother. Good to see ya again mr Palmesano......see ya again soon. ron
This is one of your videos, I think that just falls into it's own category. Nothing complex, complicated or overdone. Just a beautiful melody, a beautiful voice and a song with lyrics we all can relate to. His voice is something else.
One of my all time favorite songs. It baffles me that he had the perspective to write this when he was 16. Glen Campbell has an awesome cover of this song.
He isn't underrated. He recognized as one of the finest songwriters of his generation, he's has won Grammies, sold millions and had an extremely successful career spanning 5 decades.
@@nehpetsttocsnosirrag6227 why is that funny? How often does Jackson Browne come up in conversation with your friends and family? Probably not as much as he should. I even remember listening to classic rock stations and you would hear The Loadout or Running On Empty once a day. I can't tell you the last time I heard either on a radio station.
Keep up the great work, Michael! My mind and heart were just blown open by Jordan Rakei new track Learning…. Incredible vocal and lyrics, magnificent arrangement/harmonies, beautiful chord changes. Might be a Good reaction vid..
i just saw your "wesley's theory" reaction and i'm going to tell you, the first 3 songs are exceptionally funky, with a lot of musical layers. if you decide to delve deeper into TPAB, it's worth it, however, wesley's theory-king kunta is pure jazz-fusion madness. listen to "for free" and "king kunta" back to back, you won't be disappointed and it's a good cutoff point for folk who aren't that into rap :)
Mike, first, appreciate what you do across the board. Not to walk on JB here...but, I came across an artist that you might take a look at. Mk.gee. Very unique sound, style, and songwriting. He has a tune on here called Candy (Live) would be a good start. -peace
Ah, but when you claim to be playing the "basic riff," you're arpeggiating through the chord. Jackson is playing an alternating bass. It's a brilliant song on every level. As others have pointed out, that he wrote this at age 16 (and played the guitar at that age on Nico's version of the song) is stunning.
These days I seem to think a lot about the things that I forgot to do. Such a good line. Would highly recommend checking out the version Rachael Price (from Lake Street Dive) and stories did of this song ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YYcbZ25AgvE.htmlsi=buK3QKFkOYev_4Sx
I just can’t believe he wrote such a poignant song at the age of 16. The lyrics just cut right through and come across with such wisdom that usually comes from a much longer life of experiences.
