Standing In The Breach

From the man who defined singer/songwriting in the \'70s comes an album that fulfills the promise of his classic albums *Late from the Sky* and *Running on Empty*. *Standing in the Breach* is a strong, focused album. “The Birds of St. Marks”—a song he’s been finishing since 1967—is brought to perfection. “Yeah Yeah,” “The Long Way Around,” and “Leaving Winslow” feature Browne’s detailed lyricism and first-rate melodies. The cowrite on Woody Guthrie’s “You Know the Night” and translation of Cuban songwriter Carlos Varela’s “Walls and Doors” benefit from Browne’s soothing delivery.

“It’s never been that hard to buy a gun/Now they’ll sell a Glock 19 to just about anyone,” muses Jackson Browne midway…

Check out our album review of Artist's Standing in the Breach on Rolling Stone.com.

On Jackson Browne's first studio recording since 2008, the man who defined the '70s singer/songwriter generation finds a fresh way of dealing with the world as it is both personally and politically -- by going back to his own roots.

Political rants and Byrdsian jangle on songwriter's 14th studio album. CD review by Adam Sweeting