Running on Empty (2018 Remaster)

Jackson Browne

Released on 12/07/19 by Rhino - Elektra
Main artist: Jackson Browne
Genre: Pop/Rock Pop

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Instrumental and vocal firepower, the considerable ears of engineer Greg Ladanyi, and some magical mixing at the Sound Factory in Hollywood, combined to create the best known album of Jackson Browne's long career, reissued here in gloriously detailed and dynamically thrilling high resolution sound.

Russ Kunkel's drum break at the climatic shift of the title track. David Lindley's mournful fiddle in "The Road." Rosemary Butler's soaring vocal solo in "Stay." A song list heavy with covers. Jackson Browne on piano. An extraordinary example of utterly masterful sequencing. Sometimes a band is in such a groove that it demands to be captured live.

But making a live album that reflects being on the road, recorded literally on the road? Cutting tracks in a Holiday Inn room in Edwardsville, IL, or on a moving tour bus, complete with grinding gears? Even today with all the digital advances in home recording gear, it still seems like a disaster in the making.

In addition, none of the material had ever appeared on a Browne studio record. A shambling cover of Rev. Gary Davis's "Cocaine" and a rendition of Maurice Williams' (The Zodiacs) "Stay"—with David Lindley memorably singing the falsetto part—are both knockouts. "You Love the Thunder," recorded live in Holmdel, NJ, is a classic Jackson Browne love song, one of the last before he turned to political themes. And then there’s the album's heart: the epic Lowell George/Browne/Valerie Carter collaboration, "Love Needs a Heart." It's the one tune worth having the entire record for: "Love needs a heart/And I need to find/If love needs a heart like mine." As this fresh remastering proves again, Browne and his merry band of SoCal pros better known as The Section drew a masterpiece out of the hat with Running on Empty. © Robert Baird / Qobuz

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Running on Empty (2018 Remaster)

Jackson Browne

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Running on Empty 2018 Remaster

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Jackson Browne, Producer, Guitar, Piano, Lead Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Danny Kortchmar, Guitar - Doug Haywood, Additional Vocals - Bernie Grundman, Mastering Engineer - Russell Schmitt, Assistant Engineer - Rosemary Butler, Additional Vocals - Leland Sklar, Bass Guitar - David Lindley, Guitar, Fiddle - Russell Kunkel, Drums - Dennis Kirk, Engineer - Tom Walsh, Assistant Engineer - Craig Doerge, Keyboards - David Hewitt, Assistant Engineer - George Ybarra, Engineer - Greg Landanyi, Assistant Engineer - Mark Salwasser, Assistant Engineer - Norman Mershan, Assistant Engineer