Running on Empty (Album)

Occupation

  • Jackson Browne (vocals, guitar)
  • Danny Kortchmar (guitar)
  • David Lindley ( Lapsteelgitarre, violin )
  • Craid Doerge (keyboards)
  • Leland Sklar ( bass)
  • Russ Kunkel (drums)
  • Doug Haywood, Rosemary Butler ( background vocals )

Running on Empty is the fifth album by American singer-songwriter Jackson Browne. It was released in 1977 on Asylum Records.

General

This album is not purely a live album, but it also contains recordings that were made during the tour in hotel rooms, on the tour bus or backstage. Unlike live albums usual contains " Running on Empty " only songs that have never been published. Of these songs Browne wrote but only two even four together with a co- author and four are cover versions.

The album reached # 3 on the Billboard Top 200 and remained there 65 weeks. The single from the " Running on Empty " reached number 11, the second single from the album "The Load-Out/Stay " No. 20 on the Billboard singles chart. Although some critics the album less appreciated than the preceding, was running on empty most commercially successful work to date. In 1979, the album was nominated for a Grammy. Since the release of the album was sold over seven million copies.

Title list

Recording data

  • Tracks 1, 9, 10 - live (27 August 1977), Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, Maryland
  • Track 2 - Room 301 (27 August 1977), Cross Keys Inn, Baltimore, Maryland (the first 2:58 ) and live (7 September 1977), Garden State Arts Center, Holmdel, New Jersey
  • Track 3 - Backstage (1st September 1977) Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, New York
  • Track 4 - live (6 September 1977), Holmdel, New Jersey
  • Track 5, 6 - Room 124 ( 17 and 18 August 1977), Holiday Inn, Edwardsville, Illinois
  • Track 7 - live (17 September 1977), Universal City, California
  • Track 8 - on the tour bus ( a Continental Silver Eagle ) somewhere in New Jersey (8 September 1977)

Critics votes

  • Dirty Linen - "Writing rock songs about life on the road Has long been a cliche, but the topic which never Treated with search verve and condor as it what on Jackson Browne's 1977 album RUNNING ON EMPTY ... " ( songs about life on to write the street has long been a cliché, but the matter has never been treated with more enthusiasm than on Jackson Brown the 1977 album Running on Empty. )
  • Rolling Stone (1978 ): As impressed as I am with Jackson Browne 's art, I'm even more impressed with the humanity shines through did it. Maybe they're inseparable, but I doubt it. (So ​​I 'm impressed with Jackson Brown's art, I'm more impressed by the humanity that shines through here. Perhaps that's inseparable, but I doubt it. )
  • Jaan Uhelszki ... one Realizes what Browne did much more comfortable on the road than off ( .... you noticed that Browne on the road feels more comfortable than outside. )
  • AMG: Browne's least ambitious, but Perhaps most accessible ....... for many, it will be the only Browne album theywill want to own, just as others always will regard it disdainfully as " Jackson Browne lite. " ( Browns least demanding but probably most accessible work ... for many it will be the only work that they want, while others will look disdainfully as " Jackson Browne light". )
Record label Genre David Lindley (musician) Billboard 200 Grammy Award
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