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This is a video episode of the After the Deluge Podcast, which goes through every Jackson Browne album one episode at a time. Search any After the Deluge on you podcast app and scroll to S1. I usually turn the video off for podcast interviews (supposedly that improves audio quality) but a peak-pandemic Zoom call with Jackson Browne was too enticing. So I kept it on, and now I'm sharing it.
2:00 - The Dreamer
7:20 - “I can’t write a song that simple”
10:00 - “Somebody’s Baby” & simple songs
13:00 - Describing life to yourself is a cool job
16:45 - The ocean is downhill from everywhere
20:00 - Sylvia Earle and the Blue Heart of the planet
23:00 - "We need the ocean to survive"
22:45 - Coming down from acid and getting a song idea on the freeway
32:00 - Jamming with Greg Copeland and Greg Leisz
36:00 - The invaluable nature of session musicians (and how Jackson treats them)
41:45 - Me sharing an dorky story about a Jackson Browne show
43:25 - Playing acoustic and why have 10 guitars up there
49:30 - Are guitar solos dead?
52:45 - On Phoebe Bridgers, Dawes, Tal Wilkenfeld, and other young artists
54:20 - The last lines of "These Days" explained