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For Everyman, Jackson Browne, 1973
The image on the album cover of For Everyman is of Jackson Browne at his childhood home called "The Abbey" in L.A.
Jackson Browne reminds me a lot of James Taylor, but his best songs (which in my opinion are his slower, downbeat ones) are more soulful than Taylor's. I listened to James Taylor in high school a lot, and Jackson Browne pretty much took his place for me in college. His first album, self-titled Jackson Browne, is awesome and... depressing. That was also the first album of his that I bought, and I used to play Song for Adam, Jamaica Say You Will, and Something Fine over and over and over.
For Everyman was his second album and is also a downer, but in a savory way that makes one become very reflective while listening to it. He is a confessional singer-songwriter, and themes that run through his songs are traveling, love, and lost youth. I bought For Everyman because I liked his first album so much, and because I really needed to have the album with These Days on it.
Here is These Days:
Browne wrote These Days when he was just a teenager (in the video he says he was sixteen). Before it was on his own album, it was already recorded by Nico (of the Velvet Underground). In 2001, her version of the song was used beautifully in the movie The Royal Tennenbaums.
The image on the album cover of For Everyman is of Jackson Browne at his childhood home called "The Abbey" in L.A.
Jackson Browne reminds me a lot of James Taylor, but his best songs (which in my opinion are his slower, downbeat ones) are more soulful than Taylor's. I listened to James Taylor in high school a lot, and Jackson Browne pretty much took his place for me in college. His first album, self-titled Jackson Browne, is awesome and... depressing. That was also the first album of his that I bought, and I used to play Song for Adam, Jamaica Say You Will, and Something Fine over and over and over.
For Everyman was his second album and is also a downer, but in a savory way that makes one become very reflective while listening to it. He is a confessional singer-songwriter, and themes that run through his songs are traveling, love, and lost youth. I bought For Everyman because I liked his first album so much, and because I really needed to have the album with These Days on it.
Here is These Days:
Click to viewBrowne wrote These Days when he was just a teenager (in the video he says he was sixteen). Before it was on his own album, it was already recorded by Nico (of the Velvet Underground). In 2001, her version of the song was used beautifully in the movie The Royal Tennenbaums.