Jackson Browne's 1974 masterpiece 'Late for the Sky' turns 45 today. Watch him perform a heart-wrenching version of the title track in 1976
shortly after shooting a man in a bodega. In March, while Browne was in the studio cuttinghis wife Phyllis Major fatally overdosed on barbiturates. “Here Come Those Tears Again,” a devastating song co-written by Major’s mother, was included on the album., performing tracks from the new record as well as from 1974’s, released 45 years ago today. Browne performs the title track in the video above, sitting at the piano accompanied by his band.
” “It was my literary period: long-form, rambling songs in iambic pentameter with that run-on philosophical attitude,” Browne toldInspired by René Magritte’s 1954 series of paintings, the iconic album cover features a 1950s Chevrolet parked on a residential street in South Pasadena, beneath a streetlamp and the expansive evening sky. The cozy, private scene encapsulated the self-reflective songwriting on the album.
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