Jackson Browne - Late For The Sky (1974) (LP) - €5,00

Late for the Sky is the third studio album by American singer–songwriter Jackson Browne, released by Asylum Records on September 13, 1974. It peaked at number 14 on Billboard‘s Pop Albums chart.

On his third album, Jackson Browne returned to the themes of his debut record (love, loss, identity, apocalypse) and, amazingly, delved even deeper into them. “For a Dancer,” a meditation on death like the first album’s “Song for Adam,” is a more eloquent eulogy; “Farther On” extends the “moving on” point of “Looking Into You”; “Before the Deluge” is a glimpse beyond the apocalypse evoked on “My Opening Farewell” and the second album’s “For Everyman.” If Browne had seemed to question everything in his first records, here he even questioned himself. 

“For me some words come easy, but I know that they don’t mean that much,” he sang on the opening track, “Late for the Sky,” and added in “Farther On,” “I’m not sure what I’m trying to say.”

Yet his seeming uncertainty and self-doubt reflected the size and complexity of the problems he was addressing in these songs, and few had ever explored such territory, much less mapped it so well. 

“The Late Show,” the album’s thematic center, doubted but ultimately affirmed the nature of relationships, while by the end, “After the Deluge,” if “only a few survived,” the human race continued nonetheless. 

It was a lot to put into a pop music album, but Browne stretched the limits of what could be found in what he called “the beauty in songs,” just as Bob Dylan had a decade before.

Side A

A1.  Late for the Sky - 5:36

A2.  Fountain of Sorrow - 6:42

A3.  Farther On - 5:17

A4. The Late Show - 5:09

Side B

B1.  The Road and the Sky - 3:04

B2.  For a Dancer - 4:42

B3.  Walking Slow - 3:50

B4.  Before the Deluge - 6:18

 

Personnel

• Jackson Browne – vocals, acoustic guitar, piano, slide guitar (on "The Road and The Sky")
• David Campbell – string arrangement on "The Late Show"
• Jai Winding – piano, Hammond organ
• Doug Haywood – bass guitar, harmony vocals
• David Lindley – electric guitar, lap steel guitar, fiddle; harmony vocals (as Perry Lindley)
• Larry Zack – drums, percussion
• Joyce Everson and Beth Fitchet – women harmony vocals
• Dan Fogelberg, Terry Reid and Don Henley – harmony vocals
• Fritz Richmond – jug on "Walking Slow"
• JD Souther – harmony vocals
• H. Driver, Henry Thome, Michael Condello – handclaps

Production notes:

• Jackson Browne – producer, cover concept
• Al Schmitt – producer
• Kent Nebergall – engineer
• Tom Perry – engineer
• Fritz Richmond – engineer
• Greg Ladanyi – mastering
• Bob Seidemann – front cover, design
• Rick Griffin – front cover lettering
• Henry Diltz – back cover photography

Notes

Release:  1974

Format:  LP, Vinyl

Genre:  Country Rock

Label:  Asylum Records

Catalog#  SYL 9018

Vinyl:  Goed (G)

Cover:  Goed (G)

Prijs: €5,00