Lawyers in Love by Jackson Browne

Here you are bidding on the seventh studio album by Californian singer songwriter Jackson Browne. This was released on 2 August, 1983. For those he know little of Jackson Browne we should just point out that his immediately preceding album (‘Hold on; Hold out’) reached number one in the American chart. So much for the facts. The rest of this description is courtesy of an associate of JEL who made this donation and knows a little about this artist’s life and work. This lot comprises LAWYERS IN LOVE in both original LP record and CD format. The CD pictorial cover has been signed by Jackson Browne. The CD itself is the purple/blue coloured variant. Both the LP & CD are in fine, playable condition. Also included is a Concert Programme from Jackson Browne’s 1986 world tour. ‘Lawyers in Love’ marked Jackson Browne’s departure from writing about relationships (usually his own) into overt political angst. He disliked the Ronald Reagan era in general and American foreign policy in particular. This influenced most of his work throughout the 1980s. As for the title track: Jackson didn’t dislike American lawyers at all but nevertheless made them the fall guys for much of what he felt was wrong with America at the time: ‘Eating from TV trays / Tuned into Happy Days / Waiting for World War Three while Jesus slaves / To the mating calls of / Lawyers in Love’ Jackson voted for The Democrats. Given that the magazine ‘Rolling Stone’ once described Jackson as the most accomplished lyricist of the 1970s, then we might overlook his indifference to the sensibilities of U.S. lawyers in this composition from 1983. It’s still a good song and the album sold well. This artist is now aged 74 and continues to record and perform live today. His early stuff is the work of genius. He wrote ‘These Days’ aged 16. It remains a concert favourite and he usually performs it solo: ‘I had a lover / but it’s so hard to risk another / These days’. As a reviewer from The Herald once wrote following a virtuoso performance at the concert hall in Glasgow: “Love hurts but Jackson makes the pain feel so good”. The quotation from the 1986 Tour Programme is from ‘For America’; the first track on ‘Lives in the Balance’ from 1986. Highly recommended.