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The Very Best of Jackson Browne | 
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| Artist: Jackson Browne
Label: Elektra / Wea
Category: Music
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Rating:  61 reviews
Sales Rank: 534
Format: Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.8 x 0.3
MPN: 78091
UPC: 081227809126
EAN: 0081227809126
ASIN: B0001GOH98
Release Date: March 16, 2004
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Doctor My Eyes | | • | Rock Me on the Water | | • | Jamaica Say You Will | | • | Take It Easy | | • | These Days | | • | For Everyman | | • | Red Neck Friend | | • | Fountain of Sorrow | | • | For a Dancer | | • | Late for the Sky | | • | Before the Deluge | | • | Your Bright Baby Blues | | • | The Pretender | | • | Here Come Those Tears Again | | • | The Load-Out | | • | Stay |
Disc 2
| • | Running On Empty | | • | You Love The Thunder | | • | Boulevard | | • | Somebodys Baby | | • | Tender Is The Night | | • | In the Shape Of A Heart | | • | Lawless Avenue | | • | Lives In The Balance | | • | I Am A Patriot | | • | Sky Blue And Black | | • | Im Alive | | • | The Barricades Of Heaven | | • | Looking East | | • | The Naked Ride Home | | • | The Night Inside Me |
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Amazon.com
Though Jackson Browne's albums are not plentiful--in a career that stretches 32 years, he's released just over a dozen--they're filled with songs that serve as resilient touchstones for millions who passed through those decades. Originally forging a way for himself as a songwriter, his debut, Saturate Before Using, placed him at the forefront of the southern California rock scene. His contemporaries and compatriots, the Eagles, even took his "Take It Easy" to the top of the charts. Even at his most anthemic, his songs resonate with small details that keep the proceedings human-scaled. The sympathetic accompaniment buoys a voice that's remarkable for its lack of idiosyncrasies. His unmannered singing voice is an essential component in making songs like "These Days," "Fountain of Sorrow," and "Running on Empty" flow with a casual ease that belies the high level of craftsmanship throughout. --David Greenberger
Album Description
Over the past three decades, Jackson Browne has created and voiced many of the most literate and emotionally resonant compositions in popular music—and sold more than 15 million albums, including the seven-times platinum Running On Empty and the #1 Hold Out. This year Browne's artistry is celebrated with his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and with this new retrospective from Rhino. Browne's first-ever double-disc set compiles hits, singles, and choice album cuts from his acclaimed catalog, spotlighting both insightful works of personal introspection and passionately delivered songs of social and political observation. The 2002 recipient of the prestigious John Steinbeck Award (honoring those exemplifying the famed writer's environmental and social ideals), Browne is a mature artist and world citizen whose work shines on this long-awaited collection.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 56 more reviews...
 Classic Jackson June 12, 2008
The title for this CD says it all. It is a good mix of his classics.
 Jackson Browne November 27, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Jackson Browne has been a staple of the American music scene since the early 1970s, when he produced such great tunes as Doctor My Eyes and Song For Adam. But, he has never stopped producing great tunes, and this 2004, 2-CD album is a compilation of some of his best work, focusing primarily on his later career. Now, as with any "Best of..." album, there's bound to be disagreements about what should and shouldn't be included, and this album is no exception. Like I said, it skews towards his later career, which will please many of his later fans, and displease more long-term fans.
So, is this a great album? Overall, I would say, yes. The quality is excellent, showing of Mr. Browne's voice at it best. Plus, I like the one I got, which came in an environmentally-friendly, no-plastic holder. I really liked this album and don't hesitate to recommend it!
Highly recommended 2CD collection from a great artist. February 25, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I bought this album last week and have been playing it in my car and at home. It is brilliant, and represents 30 years of Jackson Browne songs from 1972-2002. I do not know all that much else about Jackson Browne, but the songs here speak more eloquently than any biography you might read. This guy can really write, and his songs are always tuneful with strong messages, emotional truths, excellent use of words, and quite a lot of up-to-the-moment social commentary where he writes about the times we are living in from an American perspective (he's from California originally, I think) . Particularly fine, I think, are his mid-70's songs from albums For Everyman (the title tune has wonderful lyrics) , Late For The Sky ( rated by many as his best-ever studio album) , The Pretender and Running On Empty. I love the lyrics of songs like For A Dancer and Before The Deluge. Running On Empty is an acutely-observed road trip of how you have to try and keep going even when the pace of your life seems to be getting out of your control.The Load-Out/ Stay is a familiar tune that tells all about life as a touring musician. Somebody's Baby was a pop/rock tune I always really liked from the radio back in Grade 7 in 1982, and it's on here too ( previously it was only on a film soundtrack album ), while the satirical Lawyers In Love and the lovely In The Shape Of A Heart were great songs from the 80's. Not all songs are in the tuneful West Coast style of his 70's stuff, but he does not stray too far away from the lyrical style that brought him to prominence back then. Later stuff from the 90's and early 2000's shows that Jackson Browne's songwriting is still as fine as ever, and he is still touring , I believe.
There is a lot to love about this 2CD set and really I can't find anything on here I do not like.
Just one thing - fans of his 1986 duet hit with E Street band saxophonist / vocalist Clarence Clemons : You're A Friend Of Mine should note that this song is not on here. I'm hoping it'll turn up on the next Best Of... in a few years !
Highly recommended 2CD collection from a great artist.
The Must Have Album for Jackson Browne Fans! January 16, 2007
Includes all Jackson's hits except "Love Needs A Heart", and "That Girl Could Sing".
Lives in the balance? December 27, 2006
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
What has happened to the song "Lives in the balance" on this set? If you go to his website it sounds really great!!! On this set it sounds awfull!! It sounds as if he was in a really big hurry to get the song over with. The packaging if you could call it that is really lame. Foam dots for holders? What do you do when those fall off? I suppose you put the cd's in jewel cases or else they will get really scratched up. Not to mention it is missing some of his greatest work! True you do get alot of songs for the money but, there should have been more time planning this set out before actually producing it. If you own an I-pod I suggest you go to apples I-tunes web page and import the great songs this set is missing as well as the others you really like off of this set and you will probably have spent the same amount of money if not less.
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