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It was a rainy February day in a still-new millennium, and the middle school students enrolled in our oral history and philanthropy electives were arriving at my house in vans to interview my neighbor Jackson Browne. The Gaviota hills were green, the light was silvery, and there was the sound of rain in gentle percussion. "Maybe the most renewing thing is to be by myself up here," Jackson mused, "and to spend a few days just thinking. A friend of mine had a phrase for it. She said it's called leaning up against the cheek of God."
I'd never thought of it that way, but it did seem fitting for the way the sky held us, the tenderness of being here, the sense of nearness to what matters. “I bought a parcel here in 1978,” Jackson told us. “My business manager advised me not to. From his point of view, the idea was to invest, to build. He said, ‘You can’t just run out and buy something that’s only gonna sit there.’ I said, ‘Watch.’ It’s a great investment, in my opinion. Even when I was younger, I thought it would be great to go out and buy land and not do anything with it, because so much of the land is being developed. I thought ‘I’m gonna buy some land that no one will ever do anything with,’ and I found that people were basically doing that here––restricting its uses so
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Singer-songwriter Jackson Browne still making wake-up calls
The Dallas Morning News (MCT) - Five years ago, Jackson Browne appeared as a guest star in an episode of "The Simpsons." In an effort to seek his wife's forgiveness, Homer throws a party for Marge and books Browne as the entertainment.
Sitting at the piano, the singer announces to a yard full of guests: "I'm here to serenade you with a song" _ a loud cheer pierces the night air _ "from my latest album." That, of course, brings a collective groan. "Just kidding," he assures them. "Here's one of my many classics."
The scene underscores an all-too-familiar feeling for any veteran artist. It wouldn't be a Jackson Browne concert if he didn't hear shouts coming from the audience, as in: "'The Pretender!' 'Running on Empty!' 'Doctor My Eyes!'"
Now 60, Browne recorded his first album in 1972 and is touring to promote his 17th, "Time the Conqueror." It's his first studio recording in six years and his first studio album for the label he founded, Inside Recordings.
"They've got me pretty busy, but it's fun. I'm having a great time," he says by telephone from Los Angeles, where he had flown from the Midwest and would leave the next day to resume his tour in North Carolina.
On the cover of "Time the Conqueror," Browne sport
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Jackson Browne treats Oklahoma Impediment audience appoint three-hour beaming performance
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