Re-discovering Jackson Browne

I have forgotten about a lot of the seventies American Rock I used to listen to, like Jackson Browne and Stephen Stills. I like to think I was fairly discering - Neil Young, not America, The Eagles not R.E.O. Speedwagon, but maybe anyone who listens to Todd Rundgren doesn’t have any musical integrity, I don’t know.

I have realised, listening to ‘Late for the Sky’ that Jackson Browne is one of the artists that have shaped what I try to do. Like everything else it is not easily apparent, not because I am skilled at distilling my musical influences and making them my own, but because I can’t play.

I like the long musical arcs the songs take until they get where they are going. I like the often wistful feeling in the lyrics, the harmonies and the dated instrumentation. Some songs might sound locked into the decade in which they were recorded but that’s why they are so good.

Jackson Browne Radio (Last.fm).

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