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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
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Codec................: Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
Version..............:  1.2.1 20070917
Quality..............: Lossless, (avg. compression: 69 %)
Channels.............: Stereo / 44100 HZ / 16 Bit
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Ripped by............: Warlordhunter on 8/20/2008
Posted by............: Warlordhunter on 8/25/2008
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Included.............: NFO, M3U, LOG, CUE
Covers...............: Front Leaflet

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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 (née 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

[edit] 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 Running on Empty US #3 (Pop albums), UK #28 
1980 Hold Out US #1 (Pop Albums) 
1983 Lawyers in Love US #8 (Pop Albums) #30 (Billboard 200), UK #26 
1986 Lives in the Balance US #23 (Billboard 200), UK #36 
1989 World in Motion US #45 (Billboard 200), UK #39 
1993 I'm Alive US #40 (Billboard 200), UK #35 
1996 Looking East US #36 (Billboard 200) 
2002 The Naked Ride Home US #36 (Billboard 200) 
2005 Solo Acoustic, Vol. 1 US #55 
2008 Solo Acoustic, Vol. 2 US #24 (Billboard 200) 
2008 Time The Conqueror 

[edit] Compilations
1997 The Next Voice You Hear: The Best of Jackson Browne 
2004 The Very Best of Jackson Browne
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