Jackson Browne

Hard cases make bad law, lawyers like to say, and no rock & roll case is harder to pin down
than Jackson Browne. For many listeners, Browne is the quintessential guilty pleasure, a
navel-gazing singer/songwriter whose moony ruminations and hokey melodies ought to
give anyone the giggles. But they don't. When Browne has all his talents in register, his
work is almost appallingly moving. Lawyers in Love, Browne's seventh album, ma... More >

A satire on, celebration of, and lament for the upper-middle classmates an Orange County liberal knows like he knows his neighbor's backyard, the title song is a coup: poignant, droll, political about his own experience rather than some victim's. And dat's dat. Anticlimax: the yearningly Springsteenian--get this title--"For a Rocker." (Grade: C+)