Product Description

Presenting twelve songs culled from Browne's extensive and critically acclaimed solo acoustic concerts around the world over the past few years, the disc also captures both spirited and humorous exchanges between Jackson and his audiences, making for a truly intimate listening experience. This new comp, produced by Browne and Paul Dieter, is Jackson's first live release since his 1977 multi-platinum "Running On Empty" album. It also marks the recording debut of a three decades old track, "The Birds Of St. Marks", not previously released in any form. "Solo Acoustic" reaches back to Browne's early years with "These Days" and "Take It Easy", and spans his entire career with other highlights such as "Fountain Of Sorrow", "For Everyman", "The Pretender", and "Looking East". A stirring version of "Lives In The Balance", the title track from Jackson's powerful 1986 album, will be this record's lead single.

Track Listing

1. Barricades Of Heaven
2. Intro These Days
3. These Days
4. Intro Birds Of St. Marks
5. Birds Of St. Marks
6. Intro Fountains Of Sorrow
7. Fountains Of Sorrow
8. Bright Baby Blues
9. For A Dancer
10. Too Many Angels
11. Intro For Everyman
12. For Everyman
13. Intro Lives In The Balance
14. Lives In The Balance
15. Intro Looking East
16. Looking East
17. Intro The Pretender
18. The Pretender
19. Intro Take It Easy
20. Take It Easy

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7398 in Music
• Released on: 2005-10-31
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Superb!
This live acoustic set beautifully showcases some of Jackson Browne's very best material, and is complemented by truly outstanding production. It's a long time since I enjoyed a new album this much, and it's an absolute 'must' for any admirer of JB.

It's a justifiable simplification to say that JB's first five albums are the best known, and seven of the twelve songs on this album originate from those albums. These new live versions are beautiful, and give a refreshing new take on classics such as 'For a Dancer' and 'These Days'. Other tracks - such as the beautiful 'The Birds of St Marks' - are less well known, but are invariably excellent. Tracks like 'For Everyman' were first recorded more than thirty years ago, but sound just as good (or perhaps even better; certainly different) here. JB's vocals are just as good as ever.

This is a beautiful live set which any admirer of Jackson Browne's work will enjoy again and again.

PERFECT PRECIS.
HAVE BEEN A DEVOTED FAN FOR YEARS, THIS SUMS UP TO ME THE DEFINITIVE ESSENCE OF HIS MUSICAL STYLE AND APPROACH. BEAUTIFULLY SUNG, LOVINGLY EXECUTED, THE FEEL HE HAS FOR HIS ART AND FOR HIS FANS CLEARLY SHINES THROUGH. I BELIEVE THAT HE IS PERHAPS THE MOST UNDERRATED MUSICIAN OF HIS TIME. THIS COLLECTION COVERS THE ENTIRE REPERTOIRE FROM HIS TEENS TO THE PRESENT DAY. EVERY SONG IS EXCEPTIONAL. I JUST HOPE THERE IS A VOLUME TWO

Jackson Brown in concert in the living room
This is one of the best live albums I've ever heard. I've been to several JB concerts including his solo acoustic tour in 2005 and can guarantee that this is just like the concert. Jackson doesn't need backing musicians to sound good he can, and does, really deliver live and alone.

Some of the intros might pale with time but the music is near flawless. If you like JB then this album is a must. The atmsophere of a concert is well captured and the music quality excellent. The choice of material is virtually a greatest hits album and nothing to complain about there. If only it was a double album it might contain even more gems ... call me greedy but this could easily have run to 2 discs with the wealth of superb material that this man has produced over the years and still been a great album.

Buy!