Jackson Browne
Ben Meade and I flew out to LA on April 12th to do a 15 minute interview with Jackson which turned out to be about a 2hour interview
If you are a Jackson Browne fan as I am and have been since 1972 I have been to every concert in Kansas City as well as Omaha, Denver and Topeka KS. I have seen Jackson so many times a person gets to think they know him, well every thing I thought he would be he was. What a great guy, the man deeply believes in everything he sings and talks about. Very down to earth, we sit in his amazing studio and talked and talked we talked about his songs, his beliefs, his friends, told us a couple funny stories. The man welcomed us in his domain like the gracious host you would want him to be. Jackson sung us a new song he is writing. This was quite a treat for Ben and I. We talked about it all the way back to KC.
I have also had the pleasure of having David Lindley at Knuckleheads 4 times in the last few years, being a Jackson Browne fan for so long; one can't help being a David Lindley fan too. As David has been with Jackson as long as I can remember, David is also a great guy wacky senesce of humor. David is a Funny man with the most amazing talent. A person could sit and watch him play for hours. This was a highlight in my life to sit down with both Jackson and David and just talk and hang out.
I think people love Jackson for his deep feeling emotional words of love and romanticism, the up's and the down's we have all been there and Jackson can take us there and back again I think he is possibly the greatest songwriter ever. And my ultimate goal is to get him to Knuckleheads someday
If you are a Jackson Browne fan as I am and have been since 1972 I have been to every concert in Kansas City as well as Omaha, Denver and Topeka KS. I have seen Jackson so many times a person gets to think they know him, well every thing I thought he would be he was. What a great guy, the man deeply believes in everything he sings and talks about. Very down to earth, we sit in his amazing studio and talked and talked we talked about his songs, his beliefs, his friends, told us a couple funny stories. The man welcomed us in his domain like the gracious host you would want him to be. Jackson sung us a new song he is writing. This was quite a treat for Ben and I. We talked about it all the way back to KC.
I have also had the pleasure of having David Lindley at Knuckleheads 4 times in the last few years, being a Jackson Browne fan for so long; one can't help being a David Lindley fan too. As David has been with Jackson as long as I can remember, David is also a great guy wacky senesce of humor. David is a Funny man with the most amazing talent. A person could sit and watch him play for hours. This was a highlight in my life to sit down with both Jackson and David and just talk and hang out.
I think people love Jackson for his deep feeling emotional words of love and romanticism, the up's and the down's we have all been there and Jackson can take us there and back again I think he is possibly the greatest songwriter ever. And my ultimate goal is to get him to Knuckleheads someday
posted by Knuckleheads Saloon | 5:08 PM
1 Comments:
I enjoyed your comments. How fortunate you are to know him!You're right. Jackson is indeed a poet. How amazing it must be for you to know him so well, although since you've seen and spoken with him so many times the novelty of it has worn off. To just see the man and hear his voice and guitar do an acoustically casual "Something Fine", for example, would be a close-my-eyes-and-just-"hotwire reality" experience. His music is both heavy and beautiful. It is me. It's just me. I think you must know what I mean.
Many artists find it obnoxious when their listeners try to analyze the lyrics of a song or try to construe what such-and-such must mean. I don't know how Jackson feels about this issue, and, in general, I don't feel a need to delve into personal meanings of his songs to discover what he's "really" singing about. However, there is one song whose lyrics truly intrigue me: "Looking Into You". There are many lines that beg to be chased into a labyrinth; once caught, my hands need to subdue their writhing and smoothe their duality until they are no longer listening to the highway whispering and sighing. I prefer not to go into what I have made of all of it and why--and believe me, I have disected it quite minutely. It would take too long --(as if I didn't already spend a little time saying what I already said). Rather, I'd like to ask you if you know the answer to two questions. If you do not know the answers, would you feel free enough to ask Jackson himself? You know him. Is that the sort of thing he is likely to be receptive to? By no means would I want to annoy him. The two questions are these:
1. Who is the "You" that he's looking into? (I do not think it is simply some female)
2. Who is the "Great Song Traveler"?
Thanks for the news and your time. It would also be dazzling to just discuss the song itself with another fan and leave Jackson out of it all together--it doesn't matter, really, to know officially, although I am so darn curious. Perhaps you have friends who are Jackson fans who have an opinion. I'd like some dialogue about this. I really would. Anybody out there? I'm serious.
Sparrow
(aka Embattled Illusions)
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