This short set from Jackson Browne was recorded at the No Nukes Rally held at Battery Park in New York City. The rally featured many of the performers that participated in the MUSE concerts held that week at Madison Square Gardens, and were staged to bring awareness to the dangers of nuclear power. Jackson formed the artist's organization with Bonnie Raitt and Orleans' John Hall (now a member of Congress). Their efforts (along with help from Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, Jesse Colin Young, Crosby Stills & Nash, and others) were immortalized in the popular double CD No Nukes, and the…entire summary
Jackson Browne - piano, guitar, vocals
David Lindley - guitar, pedal steel, fiddle
Craig Doerge - keyboards, vocals
Bob Glaub - bass
Ritchie Hayward - drums, vocals
Jody Linscott - percussion
Rosemary Butler - vocals
This short set from Jackson Browne was recorded at the No Nukes Rally held at Battery Park in New York City. The rally featured many of the performers that participated in the MUSE concerts held that week at Madison Square Gardens, and were staged to bring awareness to the dangers of nuclear power. Jackson formed the artist's organization with Bonnie Raitt and Orleans' John Hall (now a member of Congress). Their efforts (along with help from Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, Jesse Colin Young, Crosby Stills & Nash, and others) were immortalized in the popular double CD No Nukes, and the concert film of the same name.
Browne, who broke through a singer-songwriter in his own right in 1972 when he released his debut LP with the hit single, "Doctor My Eyes," was experiencing his biggest surge of popularity to date with "Running On Empty" and the other hit singles he had during that period, including "The Pretender." He does a memorable version of that song, as well as "Before The Deluge" and "The Road And The Sky," which ends the recording.
By the time he played this show, Browne had made the transition from intimate performing arts centers to large arenas, so the massive crowd that assembled for this show did not intimidate him, as it would have in his early years as a struggling singer/ songwriter. Projecting acoustic-driven music in a large outdoor venue is never easy, but Browne does it with ease and confidence.
The furor over nuclear power plants seemed to die down after the memory of Three Mile Island and Chernobyl had faded from our memories, but Jackson Browne has remained true to several environmental causes he got behind as his public profile increased. He remains one of America's most beloved voices.
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