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On his third album, Jackson Browne returned to the themes of his debut record (love, loss, identity, apocalypse) and, amazingly, delved even deeper into them. "For a Dancer," a meditation on death like the first album's "Song for Adam," is a more eloquent eulogy; "Farther On" extends the "moving on" point of "Looking Into You"; "Before the Deluge" is a glimpse beyond the apocalypse evoked on "My Opening Farewell" and the second album's "For Everyman." If Browne had seemed to question everything in his first records, here he even questioned himself. "For me some words come easy, but I know that they don't mean that much," he sang on the opening track, "Late for the Sky," and added in "Farther On," "I'm not sure what I'm trying to say." Yet his seeming uncertainty and self-doubt reflected the size and complexity of the problems he was addressing in these songs, and few had ever explored such territory, much less mapped it so well. "The Late Show," the album's thematic center, doubted but ultimately affirmed the nature of relationships, while by the end, "After the Deluge," if "only a few survived," the human race continued nonetheless. It was a lot to put into a pop music album, but Browne stretched the limits of what could be found in what he called "the beauty in songs," just as Bob Dylan had a decade before.
© William Ruhlmann /TiVo
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Jackson Browne, Producer, Acoustic Guitar, Piano, Lead Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - J. D. SOUTHER, Harmony Vocals - David Campbell, Strings - Jai Winding, Organ, Piano - Doug Haywood, Bass Guitar, Harmony Vocals - DON HENLEY, Harmony Vocals - Kent Nebergall, Engineer - Al Schmitt, Producer, MixingEngineer - David Lindley, Guitar, Electric Guitar, Fiddle - Tom Perry, Engineer - Larry Zack, Drums, Percussion - DAN FOGELBERG, Harmony Vocals - Fritz Richmond, Engineer, Additional Percussion - Terry Reid, Harmony Vocals - Michael Condello, Hand Clap - Joyce Everson, Harmony Vocals - Bob Hughs, Engineer - Henry Thome, Hand Clap - Beth Fitchet, Harmony Vocals - H. Driver, Hand Clap - Perry Lindley, Harmony Vocals
© 1974 Asylum Records ℗ 1974 Elektra/Asylum Records for the United States and WEA International for the world outside of the United States.
Jackson Browne, Producer, Acoustic Guitar, Piano, Lead Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - J. D. SOUTHER, Harmony Vocals - Jai Winding, Organ, Piano - Doug Haywood, Bass Guitar, Harmony Vocals - DON HENLEY, Harmony Vocals - Kent Nebergall, Engineer - Al Schmitt, Producer, MixingEngineer - David Lindley, Guitar, Electric Guitar, Fiddle - Tom Perry, Engineer - Larry Zack, Drums, Percussion - DAN FOGELBERG, Harmony Vocals - Fritz Richmond, Engineer, Additional Percussion - Terry Reid, Harmony Vocals - Michael Condello, Hand Clap - Joyce Everson, Harmony Vocals - Bob Hughs, Engineer - Henry Thome, Hand Clap - Beth Fitchet, Harmony Vocals - H. Driver, Hand Clap - Perry Lindley, Harmony Vocals
© 1974 Asylum Records ℗ 1974 Asylum Records
Jackson Browne, Producer, Acoustic Guitar, Piano, Lead Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - J. D. SOUTHER, Harmony Vocals - Jai Winding, Organ, Piano - Doug Haywood, Bass Guitar, Harmony Vocals - DON HENLEY, Harmony Vocals - Kent Nebergall, Engineer - Al Schmitt, Producer, MixingEngineer - David Lindley, Guitar, Electric Guitar, Fiddle - Tom Perry, Engineer - Larry Zack, Drums, Percussion - DAN FOGELBERG, Harmony Vocals - Fritz Richmond, Engineer, Additional Percussion - Terry Reid, Harmony Vocals - Michael Condello, Hand Clap - Joyce Everson, Harmony Vocals - Bob Hughs, Engineer - Henry Thome, Hand Clap - Beth Fitchet, Harmony Vocals - H. Driver, Hand Clap - Perry Lindley, Harmony Vocals
© 1974 Asylum Records ℗ 1974 Asylum Records
Jackson Browne, Producer, Acoustic Guitar, Piano, Lead Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - J. D. SOUTHER, Harmony Vocals - David Campbell, Strings - Jai Winding, Organ, Piano - Doug Haywood, Bass Guitar, Harmony Vocals - DON HENLEY, Harmony Vocals - Kent Nebergall, Engineer - Al Schmitt, Producer, MixingEngineer - David Lindley, Guitar, Electric Guitar, Fiddle - Tom Perry, Engineer - Larry Zack, Drums, Percussion - DAN FOGELBERG, Harmony Vocals - Fritz Richmond, Engineer, Additional Percussion - Terry Reid, Harmony Vocals - Michael Condello, Hand Clap - Joyce Everson, Harmony Vocals - Bob Hughs, Engineer - Henry Thome, Hand Clap - Beth Fitchet, Harmony Vocals - H. Driver, Hand Clap - Perry Lindley, Harmony Vocals
© 1974 Asylum Records ℗ 1974 Asylum Records
Jackson Browne, Producer, Acoustic Guitar, Slide Guitar, Piano, Lead Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - J. D. SOUTHER, Harmony Vocals - Jai Winding, Organ, Piano - Doug Haywood, Bass Guitar, Harmony Vocals - DON HENLEY, Harmony Vocals - Kent Nebergall, Engineer - Al Schmitt, Producer, MixingEngineer - David Lindley, Guitar, Electric Guitar, Fiddle - Tom Perry, Engineer - Larry Zack, Drums, Percussion - DAN FOGELBERG, Harmony Vocals - Fritz Richmond, Engineer, Additional Percussion - Terry Reid, Harmony Vocals - Michael Condello, Hand Clap - Joyce Everson, Harmony Vocals - Bob Hughs, Engineer - Henry Thome, Hand Clap - Beth Fitchet, Harmony Vocals - H. Driver, Hand Clap - Perry Lindley, Harmony Vocals
© 1974 Asylum Records ℗ 1974 Asylum Records
Jackson Browne, Producer, Acoustic Guitar, Piano, Lead Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - J. D. SOUTHER, Harmony Vocals - Jai Winding, Organ, Piano - Doug Haywood, Bass Guitar, Harmony Vocals - DON HENLEY, Harmony Vocals - Kent Nebergall, Engineer - Al Schmitt, Producer, MixingEngineer - David Lindley, Guitar, Electric Guitar, Fiddle - Tom Perry, Engineer - Larry Zack, Drums, Percussion - DAN FOGELBERG, Harmony Vocals - Fritz Richmond, Engineer, Additional Percussion - Terry Reid, Harmony Vocals - Michael Condello, Hand Clap - Joyce Everson, Harmony Vocals - Bob Hughs, Engineer - Henry Thome, Hand Clap - Beth Fitchet, Harmony Vocals - H. Driver, Hand Clap - Perry Lindley, Harmony Vocals
© 1974 Asylum Records ℗ 1974 Elektra/Asylum Records for the United States and WEA International for the world outside of the United States.
Jackson Browne, Producer, Acoustic Guitar, Piano, Lead Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - J. D. SOUTHER, Harmony Vocals - Jai Winding, Organ, Piano - Doug Haywood, Bass Guitar, Harmony Vocals - DON HENLEY, Harmony Vocals - Kent Nebergall, Engineer - Al Schmitt, Producer, MixingEngineer - David Lindley, Guitar, Electric Guitar, Fiddle - Tom Perry, Engineer - Larry Zack, Drums, Percussion - DAN FOGELBERG, Harmony Vocals - Fritz Richmond, Engineer, Additional Percussion - Terry Reid, Harmony Vocals - Michael Condello, Hand Clap - Joyce Everson, Harmony Vocals - Bob Hughs, Engineer - Henry Thome, Hand Clap - Beth Fitchet, Harmony Vocals - H. Driver, Hand Clap - Perry Lindley, Harmony Vocals
© 1974 Asylum Records ℗ 1974 Asylum Records
Jackson Browne, Producer, Acoustic Guitar, Piano, Lead Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - J. D. SOUTHER, Harmony Vocals - Jai Winding, Organ, Piano - Doug Haywood, Bass Guitar, Harmony Vocals - DON HENLEY, Harmony Vocals - Kent Nebergall, Engineer - Al Schmitt, Producer, MixingEngineer - David Lindley, Guitar, Electric Guitar, Fiddle - Tom Perry, Engineer - Larry Zack, Drums, Percussion - DAN FOGELBERG, Harmony Vocals - Fritz Richmond, Engineer, Additional Percussion - Terry Reid, Harmony Vocals - Michael Condello, Hand Clap - Joyce Everson, Harmony Vocals - Bob Hughs, Engineer - Henry Thome, Hand Clap - Beth Fitchet, Harmony Vocals - H. Driver, Hand Clap - Perry Lindley, Harmony Vocals
© 1974 Asylum Records ℗ 1974 Asylum Records
Album review
On his third album, Jackson Browne returned to the themes of his debut record (love, loss, identity, apocalypse) and, amazingly, delved even deeper into them. "For a Dancer," a meditation on death like the first album's "Song for Adam," is a more eloquent eulogy; "Farther On" extends the "moving on" point of "Looking Into You"; "Before the Deluge" is a glimpse beyond the apocalypse evoked on "My Opening Farewell" and the second album's "For Everyman." If Browne had seemed to question everything in his first records, here he even questioned himself. "For me some words come easy, but I know that they don't mean that much," he sang on the opening track, "Late for the Sky," and added in "Farther On," "I'm not sure what I'm trying to say." Yet his seeming uncertainty and self-doubt reflected the size and complexity of the problems he was addressing in these songs, and few had ever explored such territory, much less mapped it so well. "The Late Show," the album's thematic center, doubted but ultimately affirmed the nature of relationships, while by the end, "After the Deluge," if "only a few survived," the human race continued nonetheless. It was a lot to put into a pop music album, but Browne stretched the limits of what could be found in what he called "the beauty in songs," just as Bob Dylan had a decade before.
© William Ruhlmann /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 8 track(s)
- Total length: 00:41:19
- Main artists: Jackson Browne
- Label: Rhino - Elektra
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
© 1974 Asylum Records ℗ 1974 Elektra/Asylum/Nonesuch Records. Marketed by Rhino Entertainment, a Warner Music Group Company.
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