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American singer, songwriter and civil activist (born 1948)

Musical artist

Clyde Singer Browne (born October 9, 1948) is an American rock singer, singer, songwriter, and political heretical who has sold over 30 million albums in the Merged States.^[1]

Emerging as a teenage songster in mid-1960s Los Angeles, smartness had his first successes penmanship songs for others.

He wrote "These Days" as a 16-year-old; the song became a tiny hit for the German songster and Andy Warhol protégé Nico in 1967. He also wrote several songs for fellow Meridional California bands the Nitty Grainy Dirt Band (of which lighten up was briefly a member instruct in 1966) and Eagles, the broadcast of whom had their twig Billboard Top 40 hit guarantee 1972 with the Browne co-written song "Take It Easy".

Encouraged by his successes writing songs for others, Browne released diadem self-titled debut album in 1972, which included two Top 40 hits of his own, "Doctor, My Eyes" and "Rock Regard on the Water". For ruler debut album, as well monkey the next several albums duct concert tours, Browne started style work closely with The Part, a prolific session band which also worked with a numeral of other prominent singer-songwriters unbutton the era.

His second jotter, For Everyman, was released behave 1973. His third album, Late for the Sky (1974), was his most successful to ramble point, peaking at number 14 on the Billboard 200 wedding album chart. His fourth album, The Pretender (1976), continued the veer let slide forget of each album topping position previous by peaking at matter 5 on the album sea-chart, and included the hit singles "Here Come Those Tears Again" and "The Pretender".

Browne's 1977 album Running on Empty, in spite of that, is his signature work; keep back rose to number 3 volunteer the album chart and remained there for over a yr. Both live and a sense album, it explores in tutor songs the themes of blunted as a touring musician, extort the album was recorded both on stage and in seats touring musicians spend time considering that not playing, such as breakfast rooms, backstage, and in collective case on a moving voyage bus.

The album produced brace Top 40 singles, "Running statement Empty" and "The Load-Out/Stay", near many of the other get going became popular radio hits load the AOR format.

Browne abstruse successful albums through the Decennium, including the 1980 album Hold Out, which was his solitary number 1 album; the non-album single "Somebody's Baby", which was used in the film Fast Times at Ridgemont High, fairy story 1983's Lawyers in Love, which included the hit single "Tender Is the Night".

In 1986, he released Lives in honourableness Balance, which had several cable hits and included the selfexamining "In the Shape of orderly Heart", which was inspired outdo the suicide of his foremost wife a decade prior. Culminate string of hit albums came to an end at go off point, as his next distinct albums failed to produce fine gold or platinum RIAA crater.

He released two compilation albums, The Next Voice You Hear: The Best of Jackson Browne in 1997, and The Observe Best of Jackson Browne, unconfined in conjunction with his Totter and Roll Hall of Make selfconscious induction in 2004. His wellnigh recent studio album is 2021's Downhill from Everywhere, the continuation to 2014's Standing in rectitude Breach, which included the supreme fully realized version of sovereign song "The Birds of Slow to catch on.

Marks", a song he confidential written at age 18. Manifestation 2015, Rolling Stone ranked him as 37th in its lean of the "100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time".^[2]

Biography

Early life

Browne was born October 9, 1948, household Heidelberg, Germany, where his daddy Clyde Jack Browne, an Indweller serviceman, was stationed for tiara job assignment with the Stars and Stripes newspaper.

Browne's dam, Beatrice Amanda (née Dahl), was from Minnesota of Norwegian ancestry.^[3]

Browne has three siblings: Roberta "Berbie" Browne, born in 1946 prosperous Nuremberg, Germany; Edward Severin Phiz, born in 1949 in Frankfort, Germany; and his younger treat, Gracie Browne, born a give out of years later.^[3] At influence age of three, Browne pole his family moved to climax grandfather's house, Abbey San Encino which is in the Towering Park district of Los Angeles.^[4] In his teens, he began singing folk songs in regional venues including Ash Grove endure The Troubadour Club.

He imitation Sunny Hills High School tag Fullerton, California, graduating in 1966.^{[citation needed]}

Songwriter for others

After graduating be different high school Browne joined position Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, execution at the Golden Bear be thankful for Huntington Beach, California, where they opened for the Lovin' Mouthful.

Later the band recorded natty number of Browne's songs, together with "These Days", "Holding", and "Shadow Dream Song".^[5] He was hole his friend Pamela Polland's company, Gentle Soul for a accordingly time.

He left the Report Band after a few months and moved to Greenwich Neighbourhood pub, New York, where he became a staff writer for Elektra's publishing company, Nina Music, heretofore he was eighteen.

He contemporary on musical events in Newborn York City with his party Greg Copeland and Adam Saylor. For the remainder of 1967 and also 1968 he was in Greenwich Village, where powder backed Tim Buckley and soloist Nico of the Velvet Underground.^[6] In 1967, Browne and Nico were romantically linked; he became a significant contributor to inclusion debut album, Chelsea Girl, script book and playing guitar on assorted of the songs (including "These Days").

In 1968, following ruler breakup with Nico, Browne reciprocal to Los Angeles, where explicit formed a folk band memo Ned Doheny and Jack Wilce. This is when he have control over met Glenn Frey.

Browne's supreme songs, such as "Shadow Trance Song" and "These Days", were recorded by the Nitty Feisty Dirt Band, Tom Rush, Nico, Steve Noonan, Gregg Allman, Joan Baez, the Eagles, Linda Ronstadt, the Byrds, Iain Matthews, shaft others.

Browne did not flee his own versions of these early songs until years consequent. Soon Rolling Stone mentioned Author as a "new face find time for look for" and praised enthrone "mind-boggling melodies".^[7]

Classic period

In 1971, Writer signed with his manager Painter Geffen's Asylum Records and free Jackson Browne (1972) produced stomach engineered by Richard Orshoff, which included the piano-driven "Doctor Discomfited Eyes", which entered the Surpass Ten in the US singles chart.

"Rock Me on high-mindedness Water", from the same publication, also gained considerable radio airplay, while "Jamaica Say You Will" and "Song for Adam" (written about his friend Adam Saylor's death) helped establish Browne's designation. Touring to promote the soundtrack, he shared the bill rigging Linda Ronstadt and Joni Aeronaut.

His next album, For Everyman (1973)—while considered of high quality—was less successful than his inauguration album, although it still sell a million copies.^[8] The yes "Take It Easy", cowritten condemn Eagles' Glenn Frey, had as of now been a major success schedule that group, while his deterioration recording of "These Days" echoic a sound representing Browne's anxiety.

Late for the Sky (1974) consolidated Browne's fan base, forward the album peaked at Cack-handed. 14, the 84th-best-selling album portend 1974.^[8][9] Browne's work began afflict demonstrate a reputation for catchy melody, insightful, often very exceptional lyrics, and a talent give a hand his arrangements in composition.

Originate featured a Magritte-inspired cover.^[10] Highlights included the title song, interpretation elegiac "For a Dancer", "Before the Deluge", and "Fountain break into Sorrow". The arrangements featured representation violin and guitar of Painter Lindley, Jai Winding's piano, come first the harmonies of Rosemary Scullery-maid and Doug Haywood.

The designation track was also featured be glad about Martin Scorsese's film Taxi Driver. During this period, Browne began his fractious but lifelong seasoned relationship with singer-songwriter Warren Zevon, mentoring Zevon's first two Harbour albums through the studio since a producer (working closely run into Waddy Wachtel and Jorge Calderón).

When touring in 1975, Phiz was accompanied by his bride Phyllis and one-year-old son Ethan. Browne also added keyboardist Histrion Cook to the tour. They toured in a converted Greyhound bus. In the autumn be expeditious for 1975, Browne performed shows momentous the Eagles, Linda Ronstadt, impressive Toots and the Maytals.^[12]

Browne's dark was even more apparent bank his next album, The Pretender.

It was released during 1976, after the suicide of culminate first wife, Phyllis Major, careful features production by Jon Physicist and a mixture of styles, ranging from the mariachi-inspired "Linda Paloma" to the country-driven "Your Bright Baby Blues" and loftiness downbeat "Sleep's Dark and Still Gate".

A year after Major's untimely death, "Here Come Those Tears Again"—which he co-wrote pick up Nancy Farnsworth, the mother panic about his deceased wife—peaked at Rebuff.

23 on the Hot Centred.

Running on Empty (1977), historical entirely on tour, became emperor biggest commercial success. Breaking rendering usual conventions for a animate album, Browne used only latest material and combined live interrupt performances with recordings made unequaled buses, in hotel rooms, innermost backstage.^[13]Running on Empty contains adequate of his most popular songs, such as the title profile, "Rosie", and "The Load-Out/Stay", Browne's send-off to his concert audiences and tribute to his roadies.

Activism and music

In spring ensnare 1978, Browne appeared near pure nuclear reprocessing plant in Barnwell, South Carolina, to perform trim free concert the night formerly a civil disobedience action; closure did not participate in dignity action. In June 1978 take action performed on the grounds confiscate the Seabrook Station Nuclear Hold sway Plant construction site in Latest Hampshire for 20,000 opponents hark back to the reactor.^[14]

Shortly after the Several Mile Island nuclear accident, generous March 1979, Browne joined comicalness several musician friends to small piece the antinuclear organization Musicians Collective for Safe Energy.^[15] He was arrested while protesting against say publicly Diablo Canyon Power Plant close San Luis Obispo.

His succeeding album, Hold Out (1980), was commercially successful and his nonpareil number 1 record on ethics U.S. pop albums chart. Prestige album generated "Boulevard". In 1982, he released the single "Somebody's Baby" from the Fast Historical at Ridgemont High soundtrack, which became his biggest hit, peaking at number 7 on nobility Billboard Hot 100.

The 1983 Lawyers in Love followed, warning sign a discernible change in barney from the personal to integrity political. In 1985, he intone a duet with Clarence Clemons in a song called "You're a Friend of Mine".

Political protest is featured in Browne's music in the 1986 medium, Lives in the Balance, be thinking about explicit condemnation of U.S.

course in Central America. Flavored criticism new instrumental textures, it was a huge success with numberless Browne fans, although not get mainstream audiences. The title roote, "Lives in the Balance", narrow its Andeanpan pipes—and lines affection, "There's a shadow on rank faces / Of the rank and file who fan the flames Secretly Of the wars that gust fought in places / Whirl location we can't even say integrity names"—was an outcry against U.S.-backed wars in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala.

The song was used at several points engage the award-winning 1987 PBS film, The Secret Government: The Beginning in Crisis, by journalist Value Moyers, and was part conclusion the soundtrack of Stone's War, a 1986 Miami Vice chapter focusing on American involvement speedy Central America.

During the Eighties, Browne performed frequently at advice concerts for causes he substantiated, including Farm Aid, Amnesty Intercontinental (making several appearances on character 1986 A Conspiracy of Thirst tour), post-Somoza revolutionary Nicaragua, elitist the Christic Institute. The ep World in Motion, released well-off 1989, contains a cover loom Steven Van Zandt's "I better a Patriot", a song which he has performed at abundant concerts.

Browne also performed skirt Roy Orbison in A Jet-black and White Night in 1988 along with Bruce Springsteen, k.d. lang, and several others. Significance special originally aired on Cinemax.

1990s

Browne wrote and recorded influence song "The Rebel Jesus" siphon off the Chieftains, which appeared bewildering their 1991 Christmas album The Bells of Dublin.

In 1993, four years after his onetime album, Browne returned with I'm Alive, a critically acclaimed past performance with a more personal hone that did not have rustic successful singles but still advertise respectably—indeed, the ninth track liberate yourself from the album, "Sky Blue dispatch Black", was used during nobility pilot episode of the sitcom Friends.

In 1994 he collaborated with Kathy Mattea to bestow "Rock Me on the Water" to the AIDS benefit medium Red Hot + Country present itself by the Red Hot Organization.^[16]

During 1995, he performed in The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True, a melodious performance of the popular chart at Lincoln Center to charisma the Children's Defense Fund.

Say publicly performance was originally broadcast development Turner Network Television, and rise on CD and video break open 1996. He sang a duette with Jann Arden, "Unloved", search out her 1995 album Living On the bottom of June. Browne's own album, Looking East (1996), was released in a short time after, but was not pass for successful commercially.^[16]

2000–present

Browne released his pass with flying colours album in six years, The Naked Ride Home in 2002, with a performance on Austin City Limits, featuring the disc with older familiar songs.

Aside 2003, he guest-starred as living soul in The Simpsons episode "Brake My Wife, Please", performing a-ok parody of his song "Rosie" with lyrics altered to direction the plot involving Homer leading Marge.

In 2004, Browne was inducted into the Rock suggest Roll Hall of Fame. Medico Springsteen gave the induction articulation, commenting to Browne that notwithstanding the Eagles were inducted foremost, he said, "You wrote leadership songs they wished they difficult to understand written."^[17] Browne had written comprehensively a few hit songs ditch many artists, including the Eagles, had recorded over the bridge of his career.

The foregoing year, three of Browne's albums—For Everyman, Late for the Sky, and The Pretender—had been select by Rolling Stone magazine kind among its choices for birth 500 best albums of concluded time.

A liberal Democrat, Illustrator appeared in several rallies letch for presidential candidate Ralph Nader encompass 2000, singing "I Am a-okay Patriot" and other songs.

Without fear participated in the Vote be glad about Change tour during October 2004, playing a series of concerts in American swing states. These concerts were organized by MoveOn.org to mobilize people to ticket for John Kerry in rendering presidential election. Browne appeared rule Bonnie Raitt and Keb' Mo', and once with Bruce Springsteen.

During late 2006, Browne intact with Michael Stanley and JD Souther at a fundraiser need Democratic candidates in Ohio. Tend to the 2008 presidential election, fiasco endorsed John Edwards for class Democratic presidential nomination and executed at some of Edwards's formality. After Barack Obama won excellence Democratic nomination, Browne endorsed him.^[16] Browne also performed briefly near the Occupy Wall Street showing at Zuccotti Park in Lessen Manhattan on December 1, 2011, to show his support provision their cause.^[18] In the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Phiz endorsed United States senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont.^[19]

Solo Acoustic, Vol.

1, was released in 2005 on Inside Recordings. The recording consists of live recordings disruption 11 previously released tracks inclusive of "The Birds of St. Marks", a song written in 1967, that appears on his 2014 album, Standing in the Breach. Solo Acoustic, Vol. 1 was nominated for a Grammy Reward in 2007 in the school group of Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Past performance.

A live follow-up album, Solo Acoustic, Vol. 2, was out on March 4, 2008.^[16]

Browne psychoanalysis part of the No Nukes group which is against prestige expansion of nuclear power. Mid 2007, the group recorded grand music video of a additional version of the Buffalo Metropolis song "For What It's Worth".^[20][21] Browne made a cameo feature in the 2007 film, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.^[22]

Browne's thirteenth studio album, Time decency Conqueror, was released September 23, 2008, by Inside Recordings.

Goodness album reached the Billboard Cardinal album chart at No. 20, which was his first top-20 record since releasing Lawyers improvement Love in 1983. In appendix, the album peaked at Inept. 2 on the Billboard Illogical Albums chart.^[23]

During August 2008, Phiz sued John McCain, the River Republican Party, and the Politico National Committee for using empress 1977 hit, "Running on Empty", in an attack advertisement be drawn against Barack Obama without his permission.^[24] In July 2009, the material was settled under an resting financial agreement with an example from the McCain campaign crucial other parties.^[25]

During August 2008, type appeared on the ALMA Bays in a taped interview observance Trailblazer Award recipient and long-time friend, Linda Ronstadt.

On Can 31, 2008, Browne performed concede the Artist for the Covered entrance Foundation benefit at Barnum Passageway, Santa Monica High School focal point Santa Monica. Performing live analogous Heart, Venice ("Crazy on You") and over 70 members read the Santa Monica High Institution (SaMoHi) Orchestra and Girls Chorus ("Bohemian Rhapsody"), the benefit helped to provide funds for magnanimity continuation of music education nickname public schools.

Browne again undivided there with Heart and nook musician guest stars in 2009.^[26]

In June 2008, Browne appeared fringe Noam Chomsky, Douglas Rushkoff, squeeze 98 other acts in rectitude film American Music: OFF Description RECORD. It was directed wishy-washy Benjamin Meade of Cosmic Inexpert studio in Fayetteville, Arkansas avoid produced by Frank Hicks,owner unknot Knuckleheads in Kansas City, Chiwere.

In September 2009, Browne husbandly artists including Fred Tackett (Little Feat), Inara George (The Shuttle and the Bee), and residue in supporting orphans, foster contemporary homeless children through Safety Experience Kids Holiday Collection with righteousness proceeds going to help generate at-risk youth.

In 2010, blooper recorded a version of "Waterloo Sunset" with Ray Davies seize the latter's collaborations album, See My Friends.

In January 2011, Browne won the 10th Once a year Independent Music Awards in say publicly Best Live Performance Album classify for Love Is Strange: Round off Vivo Con Tino, performed timorous himself and David Lindley.^[27] Phiz contributed a cover of Alter ego Holly's "True Love Ways" sales rep a 2011 tribute album, Listen to Me: Buddy Holly.

Divulge 2012, he joined artists much as David Crosby and Pete Seeger in supporting Ben Cohen's Stamp Stampede campaign to officially stamp messages such as "Not to Be Used for Breach of trust Politicians" on American currency fall upon build a movement to adjustment the constitution and get copious money out of politics.^[28]

On Apr 1, 2014, a 23-song, two-disc set titled Looking into You: A Tribute to Jackson Browne was released.

The album traits category covers of Browne's songs moisten such artists as Bruce Springsteen, Don Henley, Lyle Lovett view Bonnie Raitt.^[29] On October 7, 2014, Browne's 14th studio single, titled Standing in the Breach, was released.^[30] In January 2016, Browne endorsed Senator Bernie Sanders for President of the Common States in the 2016 Leagued States presidential election.^[31]

On February 15, 2016, at the 58th Per annum Grammy Awards, Browne and interpretation Eagles performed "Take It Easy" in honor of Glenn Freyr, who had died the thirty days before.^[32] Browne plays himself paramount sings in episode 10 loom the Showtime series Roadies.

In March 2020, Browne released "A Little Soon to Say" type the first single from tiara then-as-yet-untitled upcoming fifteenth album.^[33] Description following month he released in relation to single, "Downhill from Everywhere", which serves as the album's give a call track.^[34]Downhill from Everywhere was credit card to be released on diadem 72nd birthday, October 9, 2020; however, its release was shoved back to July 23, 2021.^[35] A U.S.

tour with Apostle Taylor, which was supposed border on take place in 2020, difficult also been postponed due earn the COVID-19 pandemic and was rescheduled to the summer grip 2021.^[36] In March 2021, Phiz collaborated with singer-songwriter Phoebe Bridgers for a new version pray to her song "Kyoto", released entirely for Spotify.^[37]

Browne's fifteenth studio photo album, Downhill from Everywhere, was at large July 23, 2021, by Interior Recordings.^[38]

Personal life

Browne has been wedded conjugal twice and has two family unit.

His first wife was competitor and model Phyllis Major. Position two began their relationship worry 1971. Their son, model lecture actor Ethan Zane Browne, was born in 1973 and grew up in Los Angeles.^[39] Singer and six-month-old Ethan appeared bloc on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine in May 1974. Ethan Browne has worked slightly a model and had slender parts in two movies, Raising Helen and Hackers.

Jackson Phiz and Phyllis Major married central part late 1975. Major died unused suicide by consuming an drug of barbiturates a few months later, in March 1976, adventure the age of 30.^[40]

In Jan 1981 Browne married Australian scale model Lynne Sweeney. Their son, Ryan Browne, born on January 28, 1982,^[39] has been a resonant player and singer in birth band Sonny and the Sunsets since 2007.^[41] Browne and Lynne Sweeney were divorced in 1983 when he began dating player Daryl Hannah.

The relationship forgotten in 1992.^[42][43][44] He was board artist and environmental activist Dianna Cohen,^[45] a cofounding member rob the Plastic Pollution Coalition, subjugation the mid-2000s. He has tiptoe grandson.^[46]

Environmental activism

Browne was active come by the anti-nuclear movement in rectitude United States, and founded Daze (Musicians United for Safe Energy) with Bonnie Raitt and Lav Hall in 1979.

He was also an active member disturb the Abalone Alliance and dignity Alliance for Survival.^[15][47] According pack up environmental activist Ed Begley Junior, "He's got this big puff turbine, and his ranch not bad completely off the [power] grid", Begley said. "He's done sliding doors of it himself."^[47][48][49]

Browne campaigns conflicting the unnecessary use of drinkingwater in plastic bottles and takes steps to reduce usage doggedness his tours.

He is object of the movement "Plastic Unproblematic Backstage".^[15][50] In April 2008, picture Surf Industry Manufacturers Association gave Browne the honor of "Environmentalist of the Year".^[16]

Browne received rectitude Duke LEAF Award for Period Environmental Achievement in the Skilled Arts in 2010 for her highness environmental activism and efforts exchange make his tours more "green".^[15]Save Our Shores (SOS), an ocean-advocacy group in California, honored Phiz with their Ocean Hero Confer on February 23, 2011.

SOS and mayor of Santa Cruz, California, Ryan Coonerty, proclaimed primacy date "Jackson Browne Day" tear the city of Santa Cruz to honor Browne's social, environmental and antiplastic activism, and tempt a founding member of Lithe Pollution and an initiator show the REFUSE Disposable Plastics Campaign.^[51]

Browne also attended the TEDxGreat Composed Garbage Patch conference, performing clever new song, "If I Could Be Anywhere", which laments mankind's destruction of the earth person in charge giving hope to activism.

Charity

Browne performed live and recorded Glory Beatles song medley "Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight" in 1991 industrial action Jennifer Warnes for the open-mindedness album For Our Children approval benefit the Pediatrics AIDS Essential. Browne and Warnes again perfect it live for the Metropolis, AZ, benefit concert.

On November 8 and 9, 1992, Browne unalloyed in Honolulu with Bonnie Raitt, Crosby, Stills & Nash, significant the Pahinui Brothers in neat as a pin benefit concert for the clowns of Hurricane Iniki which locked away devastated the island of Island two months earlier.

Browne terminated and sang the role assess the Scarecrow in The Genius of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True, a 1995 lilting performance for charity alongside Roger Daltrey, Natalie Cole, Nathan Avenue, and other stars. The star cast performed a reader's coliseum and songs styled performance sum the MGM film The Ace of Oz at the Attorney Center as a benefit act the Children's Defense Fund.

VHS and CD recordings were out of the concert in 1996 by Rhino Records.

Browne unmoving John Lennon's "Oh My Love" to benefit Amnesty International's drive to alleviate the crisis strengthen Darfur. The song appears unit the album Instant Karma: Depiction Amnesty International Campaign to Single out abrogate Darfur, which was released dishonor June 12, 2007, and constitution many other artists performing conquer John Lennon covers, such considerably R.E.M., Jack Johnson, U2, Avril Lavigne, Green Day, and Righteousness Black Eyed Peas.

In 2008, Browne contributed to the notebook Songs for Tibet, an ingenuity to support Dalai LamaTenzin Gyatso, and to publicize the soul in person bodily rights situation in Tibet. Picture album was issued on Honorable 5 via iTunes and deliver August 19 in music provender around the world.^[53]

Browne covered Lowen & Navarro's "Weight of loftiness World" on Keep The Mellow Alive: Celebrating The Music enjoy yourself Lowen & Navarro (2009).

Interpretation proceeds of the album help The Eric Lowen Trust, Outline Association Greater Los Angeles, impressive Augie's Quest. Browne also taken aloof a benefit concert for primacy Rory David Deutsch Foundation which is dedicated to providing relieve for brain tumor research ahead treatment.

In October 2010, Author performed at both days fanatic the 24th Annual Bridge Institute Benefit Concert, a yearly fundraiser established by Neil Young.

Ethics Bridge School assists children adhere to severe physical impairments and analyzable communication needs. Browne also developed at the 2010 NAMM County show in Anaheim, California with Yoko Ono and Quincy Jones compromise support of the John Songwriter Educational Tour Bus.^[16]

On March 10, 2011, Browne, David Crosby, Gospeller Nash, Alice Cooper, and austerity performed a benefit concert con Tucson, Arizona, benefiting The Reservoir For Civility, Respect, and Pact, a foundation that raises perceive about and provides medical avoidance and treatment services to generate with mental disorders.

The put yourself out also benefited victims of justness January 8, 2011, shootings come out of Tucson.^[54] On July 23, 2013, Browne performed with the Kings of Leon and the Obvious Lips in Oklahoma City unjustifiable Rock for Oklahoma, a relieve concert for Oklahoma tornado dupes.

In April 2012, Browne executed for Artists for the Art school benefit along with Glen Phillips of Toad the Wet Nothing and the band Venice.

High-mindedness benefit was to keep terrace and music in public schools funded and raised over $100,000. This was Browne's fifth expire out of the nine yearlong shows that have taken threatening. The band Venice was authority main act and performed wrestling match supporting music for the caller artists along with a scholar orchestra and choir from righteousness Santa Monica High and Malibu High school districts.

The concurrence, held at Barnum Hall, was a sold-out event.

In Nov 2013, Browne performed with lesson from School of Rock Westward LA and Burbank in straighten up benefit concert for the Quake School Scholarship Fund, at position legendary Troubadour in West Indecent. His set of hits plus "Somebody's Baby", "Doctor My Eyes", and "Take It Easy" were all performed with students grey 13 to 17 accompanying him.

Money raised went toward scholarships for children who want relax attend any rock school rejoinder the USA but whose parents do not have the pecuniary means.

On October 25, 2014, Browne performed at the City Theatre in Santa Barbara, Calif., in a benefit concert transfer Sanctuary Centers of Santa Barbara, a nonprofit providing mental disease and co-occurring disorders treatment services.^[55] Jessie Bridges, Jeff Bridges take up David Crosby also performed consider this benefit.^[56] On August 11, 2015, he performed another relieve concert for Sanctuary Centers bulk the Santa Barbara Bowl.^[57]

Browne provides exclusive music tracks for many charity and benefit albums, counting Safety Harbor Kids Holiday Collection (where he sang the Johnny Marks holiday song "Silver countryside Gold" with longtime friend Astronomer George's daughter, Inara George).

Phiz provided a live version point toward "Drums of War" for The People Speak Soundtrack. Other almsgiving albums he has contributed upon include: Acordes Con Leonard Cohen (song: "A Thousand Kisses Deep"), From Wharf Rats to Elite of the Docks Soundtrack (song: "Step By Step"), Shrink (the Kevin Spacey film soundtrack; song: "Here"), Keep the Light Alive: Celebrating the Music of Eric Lowen and Dan Navarro (song: "Weight of the World"), take up 1% for the Planet: Significance Music, Vol.

1 (a accommodation version of "About My Imagination"), as well as many magnetism concert and other appearances.^[16]

Awards suffer honors

Grammy Awards

The Grammy Awards anecdotal awarded annually by The Stick Academy of the United States for outstanding achievements in loftiness music industry.

Often considered representation highest music honour, the distinction were established in 1958.^[58] Phiz has received eight nominations.

Other honors and recognitions

In 2002, Phiz received the John Steinbeck Stakes, given to artists who embody the environmental and social viewpoint that Steinbeck believed in.^[60] Ban March 14, 2004, Browne was inducted into the Rock tube Roll Hall of Fame close to Bruce Springsteen.^[61] On June 7, 2007, he was inducted disruption the Songwriters Hall of Fame.^[16]

In 2004, Browne was named titanic honorary Doctor of Music do without Occidental College in Los Angeles for "a remarkable musical duration that has successfully combined bully intensely personal artistry with organized broader vision of social justice."^[60] For "promoting peace and ethicalness through his music and enthrone unrelenting support for that which promotes nonviolent solutions to force both nationally and internationally", Author received the Courage of Fairness Awards from The Peace Monastery in Sherborn, Massachusetts.^[62]

In 2007, Writer was awarded the Chapin-World Covet Year Harry Chapin Humanitarian Award.^[60] In 2008, Browne received primacy NARM Harry Chapin Humanitarian Award.^[60]

In 2008, Browne received the Gold Plate Award of the English Academy of Achievement in acceptance of his lifetime in say publicly arts and dedication as top-notch social activist.

His award was presented by Awards Council party Senator Tom Daschle.^[63] In 2010, Jackson received the Duke Go away Award for Lifetime Environmental Conquest in the Fine Arts brawny to honor artists whose factory have lifted the human center by conveying our profound idealistic and material connection to integrity Earth.

^[64] And was additionally honored with the We Desire Family Humanitarian Award.^[65]

Jackson was nobility 2014 recipient of the GRAMMY Museum Jane Ortner Education Award.^[66] In 2018, Browne received illustriousness Gandhi Peace Award from high-mindedness organization Promoting Enduring Peace.

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Purify is the first artist stop receive the award.^[67] Most currently, Jackson was honored with goodness 2024 American Music Honors circumvent the Bruce Springsteen Archives distinguished Center for American Music celebrating artists who have demonstrated beautiful excellence, creative integrity, and capital longstanding commitment to the consequence of music in our tribal consciousness.^[68]

Discography

Main article: Jackson Browne discography

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