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- Artist: Jackson Browne
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- Release Date: 1972 01
- Total Time: 40:55
- Genre: Rock
Review
An auspicious debut that doesn't sound like a debut: although only 23, Jackson Browne had kicked around the music business for several years and developed an unusual use of language, studiedly casual yet full of striking imagery, and a post-apocalyptic viewpoint to go with it. He sang with a calm certainty over spare, discretely placed backup that highlighted the songs and always seemed about to disappear. In song after song, Browne described the world as a desert in need of moisture: in "Doctor My Eyes," the album's most propulsive song and a Top Ten hit, he sang, "Doctor, my eyes/Cannot see the sky/Is this the prize/For having learned how not to cry?" If Browne's outlook was cautious, its expression was original. His conditional optimism seemed to reflect hard experience, and in the early '70s, a lot of his listeners shared that perspective. Like any great artist, Browne articulated the tenor of his times. But the album has long since come to seem a timeless collection of reflective ballads touching on still-difficult subjects -- suicide (explicitly), depression and drug use (probably), spiritual uncertainty and desperate hope -- all in calm, reasoned tones, and all with an amazingly eloquent sense of language. Jackson Browne's greater triumph is that, having perfectly expressed its times, it transcended them as well. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Jamaica, Say You Will | Jackson Browne | Jackson Browne | (3:23) |
| A Child in These Hills | Jackson Browne | Jackson Browne | (3:57) |
| Song for Adam (Lyrics) | Jackson Browne | Jackson Browne | (5:22) |
| Doctor My Eyes (Lyrics) | Jackson Browne | Jackson Browne | (3:11) |
| From Silver Lake (Lyrics) | Jackson Browne | Jackson Browne | (3:49) |
| Something Fine (Lyrics) | Jackson Browne | Jackson Browne | (3:47) |
| Under the Falling Sky (Lyrics) | Jackson Browne | Jackson Browne | (4:08) |
| Looking into You (Lyrics) | Jackson Browne | Jackson Browne | (4:20) |
| Rock Me on the Water (Lyrics) | Jackson Browne | Jackson Browne | (4:13) |
| My Opening Farewell (Lyrics) | Jackson Browne | Jackson Browne | (4:45) |
