![]() ![]() Recorded at Groove Masters in Santa Monica, CA, it was produced by Browne, recorded and mixed by Kevin Smith. Throughout his 15 albums and over his storied career, Browne also regularly threaded activism into his life and songs, raising funds and awareness for social, political, and environmental efforts.ĭownhill From Everywhere is Browne’s first new album in six years. He’s an inductee in both the Rock and Roll and Songwriters Hall of Fame. Known for era-defining hits like “Running On Empty” and “The Pretender,” as well as personal ballads like “These Days,” Browne’s catalog has sold more than 18 million records in the United States alone. Since his 1972 debut album Jackson Browne, he has been hailed as one the Greatest Songwriters of All Time by Rolling Stone. “He sat down there and played ‘Rock Me on the Water.’ Blew my mind. ‘Holy shit!’ Being a musician I loved the music and was enthralled by it. Jackson said, 'You want to hear some of the music?’ And he went in the living room and he sat down at a grand piano and played a chord. “Gary Burden, my partner and graphic artist, and I were hired by David Geffen to go over to this young songwriter's house and take some pictures of him around March 1971. "We had a beer and talked for a few minutes. "I first knew Jackson Browne when he lived around the Hollywood Bowl,” remembered Diltz in a 2008 interview we did. Browne had a studio apartment in the Echo Park/East Hollywood area. I first heard and met Browne at Doug Weston’s Troubadour club in West Hollywood and McCabe’s Guitar Shop in Santa Monica around 1970 and just a bit later around 1971. Henry and I have fond memories of Frank Zappa, Godfrey Cambridge, Julie Newmar, Rupert Crosse, and Tim Buckley, an early influential singer-songwriter on Browne, taping episodes. My mother Hilda worked for Raybert Productions who produced The Monkees series at the Columbia-Screen Gems studios at Gower Gulch. Musician and photographer Henry Diltz further praised Browne to me in the late '60s after Diltz was the set photographer for the second season of The Monkees television series. Browne’s second album was called For Everyman, and he became, along with the aforementioned, the front man for the singer-songwriter movement in California in the 1970s. “The great singer-songwriters, from Dylan to James Taylor to Leonard Cohen, all have the ability to write personally in a way that makes their words seem to speak to everyman. He had both memorable lyrics and hooks that made his music stand out against the more sensitive singer/songwriters of the time, who tended to be more introspective and insular,” underscored Darrow. “His boyish good looks and his ability to write lyrics that were beyond his age gave him an identity all his own. ![]() Always the singer-songwriter, he set himself apart from his contemporaries at the time,” recalled Darrow in a 2008 interview we did. Multi-instrumentalist Chris Darrow first encountered Browne during 1966-1968 when Darrow was a founding member of Kaleidoscope and then joined the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Two of Nurit’s photos are displayed in my 2008 book Canyon of Dreams The Magic and the Music of Laurel Canyon.īrowne eventually secured a publishing deal with Nina Music/Elektra Records, who placed his tunes on LPs by Joan Baez, Tom Rush and Steve Noonan. As a 16-year-old, Browne attended the ’67 Monterey International Pop Festival. in West Hollywood and another at the home of Laurel Canyon-based talent manager and music industry mensch Billy James, who always championed Browne’s songs. ![]() One session was done at the Orange Julius stand on Santa Monica Blvd. In 1967 Wilde took the first portrait pictures of Browne. During 1966, photographer Nurit Wilde, “Sweet Nurit from Lookout Mountain Street,” touted Jackson Browne songs to Fairfax High School teenagers in West Hollywood and Laurel Canyon. ![]()
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