Browne, Jackson (1948—)
Romantic balladeer turned political activist, Jackson Browne is one of America's most enduring singer-songwriters. Raised in Southern California, Browne joined th...
Read more
Critical Essay by Dave Marsh
Like most performers who transcend their genre, Jackson Browne often seems more a symbol than an artist. Singer/songwriter fans find in him the fulfillment of the style...
Read more
Critical Essay by Peter Knobler
Jackson Browne is his own best chronicler. The profile has yet to be written which reveals him as incisively, or with as much love for language, as Browne does himself...
Read more
Critical Essay by Stephen Holden
Like Browne's two previous albums, Late for the Sky contains no lyric sheet. The three or four hours required to make a full transcription will, however, be we...
Read more
Critical Essay by David Spiwack
It's hard not to love Jackson Browne, even if you're not a teenage girl who can't believe how cute he is. Because the power of his songs extends b...
Read more
Critical Essay by Jack Mcdonough
It seems safe [now], if somewhat brash, to make a claim: Jackson Browne is the most important American songwriter since Bob Dylan and is perhaps as true a voice of th...
Read more
Critical Essay by Timothy White
[Browne] writes and sings untiringly and without restraint about all the broken promises, the canceled appointments, the quintessential assumptions that have fallen th...
Read more
Jackson Browne says that Democrat John Edwards is the most progressive candidate with a chance at winning the White House, and that he would do the most for working-class Americans."It's a challeng...
Read more
"Sneaky" Pete Kleinow, a steel guitar prodigy who rose to fame as one of the original members of the Flying Burrito Brothers, has died. He was 72.Kleinow, who also worked in film as an award-winnin...
Read more
For rock'n'roll fans who like to travel, there's a new guide from Santa Monica Press: "Led Zeppelin Crashed Here," by Chris Epting ($16.95).In fact, the book is fun to leaf through even if you don'...
Read more
Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne and Graham Nash are putting a new millennium twist on their 1970s anti-nuclear message, urging Congress not to approve federal loan guarantees for new nuclear power pla...
Read more
Democrat John Edwards implored college students Tuesday to elect a trustworthy president, but sidestepped questions about whether rival Hillary Rodham Clinton was untrustworthy.Edwards spoke at Gri...
Read more
Hank KaplanMIAMI (AP) — Hall of Fame boxing historian Hank Kaplan died Friday, leaving behind archives that dated to the 1800s. He was 88.Kaplan died after battling cancer for nearly a year, ...
Read more
Rudy Giuliani has lost his lead and the top four G.O.P. candidates within six points of each other in the latest national poll, this one from The Wall Street Journal and NBC News. Hours after that ...
Read more
Clay Eals wanted to write a biography on star-crossed folk singer Steve Goodman that people wouldn't be able to put down.Instead, he produced a book that, at 778 pages, is so huge that it's hard to...
Read more
Checks from Hollywood's A-list stars such as George Clooney, Eddie Murphy and Barbra Streisand added up to a one-night take of $1.3 million for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.Obama ...
Read more