Running on Empty (Album)
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| Live album by Jackson Browne | ||||
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Publication |
1977 |
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August / September 1977 |
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| Label (s) | Asylum | |||
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CD, LP |
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Title (number) |
10 |
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running time |
41:49 |
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Jackson Browne |
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Running on Empty is the fifth album by the American singer-songwriter Jackson Browne . It was released on Asylum Records in 1977.
General
This album is not a pure live album, but also contains recordings made during the tour in hotel rooms, on the tour bus or backstage. Unlike usual with live albums, Running on Empty only contains songs that have never been released before. Browne wrote only two of these songs himself, four together with a co-author and four are cover versions. The band consisted of the session formation The Section .
The album peaked at number 3 on the Billboard Top 200 and stayed there for 65 weeks. The released single Running on Empty reached number 11, the second single The Load-Out / Stay number 20 on the Billboard single charts. Although some critics valued the album less than the previous ones, Running on Empty was Browne's most commercially successful work to date. In 1979 the album was nominated for a Grammy . The album has sold over seven million times since it was released.
On the occasion of the annual NAMM in Anaheim , California, the protagonists of this groundbreaking work received a late honor in 2018. The Section was inducted into the TEC Awards Hall of Fame, while Jackson Browne received the Les Paul Innovation Award.
Track list
- 1 Running on Empty - Browne 5:20
- 2 The Road - O'Keefe 4:50
- 3 Rosie -Browne, Miller 3:37
- 4 You Love the Thunder - Browne 3:52
- 5 Cocaine - Browne, Davis , Frey 4:55
- 6 Shaky Town - Kortchmar 3:36
- 7 Love Needs a Heart - Browne, Carter, George 3:28
- 8 Nothing but Time - Browne, Burke 3:05
- 9 The Load-Out - Browne, Garofalo 5:38
- 10 Stay - Williams 3:28
Recording dates
- Tracks 1, 9, 10 - live (Aug 27, 1977), Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, Maryland
- Track 2 - Room 301 (Aug 27, 1977), Cross Keys Inn, Baltimore, Maryland (the first 2:58) and live (Sep 7, 1977), Garden State Arts Center, Holmdel, New Jersey
- Track 3 - Backstage (September 1, 1977) Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, New York
- Track 4 - live (September 6, 1977), Holmdel, New Jersey
- Track 5, 6 - Room 124 (August 17-18, 1977), Holiday Inn, Edwardsville, Illinois
- Track 7 - live (September 17, 1977), Universal City, California
- Track 8 - in the tour bus (a Continental Silver Eagle) somewhere in New Jersey (September 8, 1977)
Criticism
- Dirty Linen : "Writing rock songs about life on the road has long been a cliche, but the topic was never treated with such verve and condor as it was on Jackson Browne's 1977 album Running on Empty ..." ("Songs über das Leben writing on the street has long been a cliché, but the subject was never treated with more enthusiasm than on Jackson Brown's 1977 album Running on Empty. ")
- Rolling Stone (1978) : "As impressed as I am with Jackson Browne's art, I'm even more impressed with the humanity that shines through it. Maybe they're inseparable, but I doubt it. "(" As impressed as I am by Jackson Brown's art, I am more impressed by the humanity that shines through here. Perhaps that is inseparable, but I doubt it. ")
- Jaan Uhelszki : "... one realizes that Browne was much more comfortable on the road than off." ("... you notice that Browne feels more comfortable on the road than outside.")
- AMG : "Browne's least ambitious, but perhaps most accessible .... ... for many, it will be the only Browne album they will want to own, just as others always will regard it disdainfully as 'Jackson Browne lite'." ("Brown's least demanding but probably most accessible work ... for many it will be the only work they want, while others will contemptuously view it as 'Jackson Browne light'.")
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Product information on allmusic.com
- ^ Billboard: Jackson Browne and The Section Honored at NAMM's Annual TEC Awards
- ^ A b AMG Review William Ruhlmann
- ↑ Album booklet
- ↑ Homepage Jackson Brown ( Memento of the original from July 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Amazon.com product info
