Jackson Browne - The Next Voice You Hear [Best Of][1997][FLAC]-FLAWL3SS

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Jackson Browne - The Next Voice You Hear - The Best of Jackson Browne

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Artist...............: Jackson Browne

Album................: The Next Voice You Hear - The Best of Jackson Browne

Genre................: Pop/Rock, Singer/Songwriter

Source...............: CD

Year.................: 1997

Ripper...............: Exact Audio Copy (Secure mode) / Level 8 & TSSTcorp CDDVD SE-S204N

Codec................: Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)

Version..............: 1.2.1 20070917

Quality..............: Lossless, (avg. compression: 69 %)

Channels.............: Stereo / 44100 HZ / 16 Bit

Tags.................: VorbisComment

Information..........:



Ripped by............: Warlordhunter on 8/20/2008

Posted by............: Warlordhunter on 8/25/2008





Included.............: NFO, M3U, LOG, CUE

Covers...............: Front Back



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Tracklisting

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1. (00:03:20) Jackson Browne - Doctor My Eyes

2. (00:04:40) Jackson Browne - These Days

3. (00:06:53) Jackson Browne - Fountain of Sorrow

4. (00:05:38) Jackson Browne - Late for the Sky

5. (00:05:53) Jackson Browne - The Pretender

6. (00:04:56) Jackson Browne - Running on Empty

7. (00:04:49) Jackson Browne - Call It a Loan

8. (00:04:23) Jackson Browne - Somebody's Baby

9. (00:04:55) Jackson Browne - Tender Is the Night

10. (00:05:42) Jackson Browne - In the Shape of a Heart

11. (00:04:16) Jackson Browne - Lives in the Balance

12. (00:06:08) Jackson Browne - Sky Blue and Black

13. (00:05:44) Jackson Browne - The Barricades of Heaven

14. (00:04:40) Jackson Browne - The Rebel Jesus

15. (00:04:49) Jackson Browne - The Next Voice You Hear



Playing Time.........: 01:34:57

Total Size...........: 478.05 MB



NFO generated on.....: 8/25/2008 12:02:43 AM





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Released September 23, 1997 .





Clyde Jackson Browne (born October 9, 1948) is an American rock singer-

songwriter and musician, whose introspective lyrics made him the poster boy

for the Southern California confessional singer-songwriter movement of the

late 1960s and early 1970s. In 2004, Browne was inducted into the Rock and

Roll Hall of Fame by fellow American musical artist and good friend, Bruce

Springsteen. In the same year, Browne received an honorary Doctorate of

Music from Los Angeles' Occidental College for "a remarkable musical career

that has successfully combined an intensely personal artistry with a broader

vision of social change and justice".



Browne was born in Heidelberg, Germany, where his father, an American

serviceman, was stationed. Jackson's mother, Beatrice Amanda (n?e Dahl),

was a Minnesota native of Norwegian ancestry. Browne has three siblings:

Roberta "Berbie" Browne who was born in 1946 in Nuremberg, Germany and

Edward Severin Browne who was born in 1949 in Frankfurt, Germany. His

younger sister, Gracie Browne, was born a number of years later. Browne

moved to the Highland Park district of Los Angeles, California, at the age of 3

and in his teens began singing folk music in local venues. In 1966, he joined

the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. He had attended Sunny Hills High School in

Fullerton, California.



A precociously gifted songwriter, Browne signed a publishing contract with

Nina Music, and his songs were performed by Joan Baez, Tom Rush, the

Eagles, Linda Ronstadt, the Byrds and Steve Noonan, among others. After

moving to Greenwich Village, New York, Browne was briefly in Tim Buckley's

back-up band. He also worked on Nico's Chelsea Girl, both by playing guitar

and penning the classic song "These Days". After leaving New York City,

Browne formed a folk band with Ned Doheny and Jack Wilce. Except for this

short period of living in New York, Browne has, to this day, lived in Southern

California.



In 1971, Browne signed with Asylum Records and released Jackson Browne

(1972), which included the piano-driven "Doctor My Eyes", a Top 10 hit in the

US singles chart. "Rock Me on the Water", from the same album, also gained

considerable radio airplay, while "Jamaica Say You Will" and "Song for Adam"

helped establish Browne's reputation as a versatile and original writer with a

deep thinking, sometimes downbeat, but always romantic flair. During this

period, he also toured with Linda Ronstadt.



His next album, For Everyman (1973) — while considered of high quality —

was less successful than his debut album, although it still sold a million copies.

The upbeat "Take It Easy," co-written with The Eagles' Glenn Frey, had

already been a big hit for that group, while "These Days" (actually written by

Browne and first recorded by Nico in 1967) captured the essence of Browne's

youthful, morose angst. The title track, meanwhile, was the first of Browne's

studies of personal exploration, soul-searching, and despair set against the

backdrop of a decaying society.



Late for the Sky (1974) consolidated Browne's following, with some fans

drawn in purely by the record's intriguing, Magritte-inspired cover. Highlights

included the searching, heartbreaking title song, the elegiac "For a Dancer"

and the apocalyptic "Before the Deluge". The arrangements featured the

evocative violin and guitar of David Lindley, Jai Winding's outstanding piano,

and the stellar harmonies of Doug Haywood. The title track was also featured

in Martin Scorsese's film Taxi Driver. Around this time, Browne began his

fractious but lifelong professional relationship with singer/songwriter Warren

Zevon, mentoring Zevon's first two Asylum albums through the studio as a

producer after browbeating Asylum head David Geffen into giving Zevon a

recording contract.



Browne's disaffected, wondering character struck out even more starkly in his

next album, The Pretender, which is arguably his darkest and yet musically

and lyrically his brightest. It was released in 1976, after the suicide of his first

wife, Phyllis Major. The album features stronger production by Jon Landau

and a mixture of styles, ranging from the Mariachi-inspired peppiness of

"Linda Paloma" to the country-driven "Your Bright Baby Blues" to the near-

hopeless sadness and surrender of "Sleep's Dark and Silent Gate". The title

track "The Pretender" is Browne's magnum opus, a vivid account of

romanticism losing the battle with the realities of day-to-day life. "Here Come

Those Tears Again" was cowritten with Nancy Farnsworth, the mother of

Browne's wife, after the untimely death of her daughter.



By then, Browne's work had gained a reputation for its compelling melodies,

clear, honest, and insightful lyrics, and a flair for composition rarely seen in

the world of rock and roll. He was often referred to as "a thinking man's rock

star."



Browne began recording his next LP while on tour, and Running on Empty

(1977) became his biggest commercial success. Breaking the usual

conventions for a live album, Browne used all new material and combined live

concert performances with recordings made on buses, in hotel rooms, and

back stage, creating the audio equivalent of a road movie. Running on Empty

contains many renowned songs, such as the propulsive title track, "Running

on Empty", "The Road" (written and recorded in 1972 by Danny O'Keefe),

"Rosie", and "The Load-Out/Stay" (Browne's affectionate and knowing send-

off to his concert audiences and roadies).



Browne has been married twice and has two children. His first wife was

actress/model Phyllis Major (1946-1976). The two began their relationship

around 1971, as was artistically memorialized in the song "Ready or Not".

Their son, Ethan Zane, was born in 1973. Phyllis and Jackson married in late

1975. He was devastated when she committed suicide by taking an overdose

of sleeping pills just a few months later, in March of 1976, at the age of 30.



He was in a relationship with Daryl Hannah from 1978 (when she was 18)

through 1992 with the exception of his January 1981 marriage to Australian

model, Lynne Sweeney with whom he had a second son, Ryan Daniel, born in

1982. Jackson and Lynn were divorced in 1983 and he continued with

Hannah until she left him for John F. Kennedy, Jr. He has been in a

relationship with artist Dianna Cohen since the mid 90's





Shortly after the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in March 1979, Browne

joined with several musician-friends to found the anti-nuclear organization,

Musicians United for Safe Energy. His next album, Hold Out (1980), was

commercially successful — his only number 1 record on the U.S. pop albums

chart. The following year he released the single "Somebody's Baby" from the

Fast Times at Ridgemont High soundtrack, which became his biggest hit,

peaking at #7 on the Billboard Hot 100. The 1983 Lawyers in Love followed,

signaling a discernible change from the personal to the political in his lyrics.



Political protest came to the fore in Browne's music in the 1986 album, Lives in

the Balance, an explicit condemnation of Reaganism and U.S. policy in Central

America. Flavored with new instrumental textures, it was a huge success with

Browne fans, though not with mainstream audiences. The title track, "Lives in

the Balance", with its Andean pan pipes — and lines like, "There's a shadow

on the faces / Of the men who fan the flames / Of the wars that are fought

in places / Where we can't even say the names" — was a cri de coeur against

U.S.-backed wars in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala. The song was

used at several points in the award-winning 1987 PBS documentary, The

Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis, by journalist Bill Moyers, and

was part of the soundtrack of Stone's War, a 1986 Miami Vice episode

focusing on American involvement in Central America.



During the 1980s, Browne frequently performed at benefit concerts for

causes he believed in, including Farm Aid; Amnesty International (making

several appearances on the 1986 A Conspiracy of Hope Tour); post-Somoza,

revolutionary Nicaragua; and the Christic Institute. The album, World in

Motion, released in 1989, was even more politically-oriented and polarizing.



In 1995 he performed in The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True a

musical performance of the popular story at Lincoln Center to benefit the

Children's Defense Fund. The performance was originally broadcast on Turner

Network Television (TNT), and issued on CD and video in 1996.



According to eco-series, Ed Begley, Jr., “He’s got this big wind turbine, and

his ranch is completely off the [power] grid,” Begley said. “He’s done all of it

himself.”



Recent years

Four years after his previous album, Browne returned with I'm Alive, a

critically acclaimed album with a more personal perspective that had no hits

but still sold respectably — indeed, the ninth track from the album, Sky Blue

and Black, was used during the pilot episode of the situation comedy Friends.

He also sang a duet with Jann Arden, "Unloved", on her 1995 album Living

Under June. Browne's Looking East (1996) was released soon after, but was

not as successful commercially. The Naked Ride Home was released in 2002.



Browne was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004. In his

induction speech,[6] Bruce Springsteen noted that while the Eagles got to the

Hall first, "You [Browne] wrote the songs they wished they had written". The

previous year, three of Browne's albums — For Everyman, Late for the Sky,

and The Pretender — had been selected by Rolling Stone magazine as among

its choices for the 500 best albums of all time.



Browne appeared in several rallies for presidential candidate Ralph Nader in

2000, singing "I Am A Patriot" and other songs. He participated in the Vote

for Change tour in October 2004, playing a series of concerts in American

swing states. These concerts were organized by MoveOn.org to mobilize

people to vote for John Kerry in the presidential election. Browne appeared

with Bonnie Raitt and Keb' Mo', and once with Bruce Springsteen. In late

2006, Browne performed with Michael Stanley and J. D. Souther at a

fundraiser for Democratic candidates in Ohio. For the 2008 Presidential

Election he endorsed John Edwards for the Democratic Presidential

Nomination and performed at some of Edwards' appearances.



Solo Acoustic, Vol. 1, was released in 2005 on Inside Recordings. The album

consists of live recordings of eleven previously released tracks and "The Birds

of St. Marks", a song that does not appear on any of Browne's studio albums.



Browne is part of the No Nukes group which is against the expansion of

nuclear power. In 2007 the group recorded a music video of a new version of

the Buffalo Springfield song "For What It's Worth".



Browne's new live album, Solo Acoustic, Vol. 2, was released on March 4,

2008.



Browne's new studio album, "Time The Conqueror", will see release in

September 2008 via Inside Recordings, his first studio album since leaving

longtime label Elektra Records in 2003.



In August 2008, Browne sued John McCain and the Republican Party for

using his 1977 hit, Running on Empty, in an attack ad against Barack Obama

without his permission.





Other charity

In 2008, Browne contributed to an album called Songs for Tibet, which is an

initiative to support Tibet, Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso and to underline the

human rights situation in Tibet. The album was issued on August 5 via iTunes

and on August 19 in music stores around the world





For "promoting peace and justice through his music and his unrelenting

support for that which promotes nonviolent solutions to problems both

nationally and internationally", Browne received the Courage of Conscience

Awards from The Peace Abbey in Sherborn, Massachusetts



Discography



Albums

1972 Jackson Browne also known as Saturate Before Using US #53 (Pop

Albums)

1973 For Everyman US #43 (Pop Albums)

1974 Late for the Sky US #14 (Pop Albums)

1976 The Pretender US #5 (Pop albums), UK #26

1977