Having acknowledged a certain creative desperation on The Pretender, Jackson Browne lowered his sights (and raised his commercial appeal) considerably with Running on Empty, which was more a concept album about the road than an actual live album, even though its songs were sometimes recorded on-stage (and sometimes on the bus or in the hotel). Unlike most live albums, though, it consisted of previously unrecorded songs. Browne had less creative participation on this album than on any he ever made, solely composing only two songs, co-writing four others, and covering another four. And he had less to say -- the title song and leadoff track neatly conjoined his artistic and escapist themes. Figuratively and creatively, he was out of gas, but like "the pretender," he still had to make a living. The songs covered all aspects of touring, from Danny O'Keefe's "The Road," which detailed romantic encounters, and "Rosie" (co-written by Browne and his manager Donald Miller), in which a soundman pays tribute to auto-eroticism, to, well, "Cocaine," to the travails of being a roadie ("The Load-Out"). Audience noises, humorous asides, loose playing -- they were all part of a rough-around-the-edges musical evocation of the ock & roll touring life. It was not what fans had come to expect from Browne, of course, but the disaffected were more than outnumbered by the newly converted. (It didn't hurt that "Running on Empty" and "The Load-Out"/"Stay" both became Top 40 hits.) As a result, Browne's least ambitious, but perhaps most accessible, album ironically became his biggest seller. But it is not characteristic of his other work: for many, it will be the only Browne album they will want to own, just as others always will regard it disdainfully as "Jackson Browne lite."
I have read many a post on music to listen to while running or walking. What you listen to a lot of the times, I feel, effects your workout on so many levels. Seems like Nike and Apple might have found the solution to making your workout that much better. First you want to go and get yourself a pair of Nike+ shoes, these come with a special insole that you can fit a special sensor into. Next, y...
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I have read many a post on music to listen to while running or walking. What you listen to a lot of the times, I feel, effects your workout on so many levels. Seems like Nike and Apple might have found the solution to making your workout that much better. First you want to go and get yourself a pair of Nike+ shoes, these come with a special insole that you can fit a special sensor into. Next, y...
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wish i had the ballsWOWhow i forgotten how fucking great this is......Highways and dancehallsA good song takes you farYour write about the moonAnd you dream about the starsBlues in old motel roomsGirls in daddy's carYou sing about the nightsAnd you laugh about the scarsCoffee in the morning cocaine afternoonsYou talk about the weatherAnd you grin about the roomsPhone calls long distanceTo tell ...
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JACKSON BROWNE lyrics - "Running On Empty" (Jackson Browne)Looking out at the road rushing under my wheelsLooking back at the years gone by like so many summer fieldsIn sixty-five I was seventeen and running up one-o-oneI don't know where I'm running now, I'm just running onRunning on - running on emptyRunning on - running blindRunning on - running into the sunBut I'm running behindGotta do wha...
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(or at least that is what my license plate says)Picked up my 2006 Chevy Malibu this afternoon, 'braska plates & all. Heading westward on the 10--the same one that gets you to Pomona or Santa Monica, and making my way to New Orleans. Although I have my own personal opinions about what is going on along the Gulf Coast, I have commited myself to be unbiased. I will be arriving in New Orleans tomor...
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| Title | Lyrics | Buy |
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| 1 Running on Empty |
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| 2 The Road |
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| 3 Rosie |
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| 4 You Love the Thunder |
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| 5 Cocaine |
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| 6 Shaky Town |
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| 7 Love Needs a Heart |
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| 8 Nothing but Time |
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| 9 The Load-Out |
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| 10 Stay |
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