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Dates: during 1970-1979
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JACKSON BROWNE may well be the prototypical Southern California rock and roll star. Like the rest of the L.A. pop crowd, he's known for squeaky-clean vocals, introspection run rampant, a reliance on the studio pit crew of J.D. Souther, and Eagles Don Henley, Glenn Frey et al, and an obsession with The Road. The latter has been the dominant image in his music since his second album, both as a metaphor for change and a literal determinant of modern life. "Take It Easy" and "The Road and the Sky," from his second and third albums respectively, were...

Author: By Bill Barol, | Title: Angst on Wheels | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

Newman gets some help from the Eagles in "Rider in the Rain," in which Don Henly, Glen Frey, and J.D. Souther sing background vocals. As a result this ballad sounds very much like an Eagles tune, except that raspy-voiced Newman sings the lead and the lyrics sound like they were written from a rhyming dictionary, with little regard for meaning...

Author: By Marc M. Sadowsky, | Title: Simple Music | 10/18/1977 | See Source »

...musical associates agree that she is still learning. In her Hasten Down the Wind album, she waded delightfully into reggae, the Jamaican folk-rock. She has begun, timidly, to write songs. Says Singer and Songwriter John David Souther, a friend and onetime lover: "Her creative capacity is endless. I doubt if she knows the depth of it herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Linda Down the Wind | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

...crispness of tone is swallowed by the sugar plum violin in the background. And though Eagle member Don Henley and J.D. Souther harmonize pleasantly with Browne, they cannot salvage the hackneyed words...

Author: By Hilary B. Klein, | Title: Browne's Bobbling | 12/10/1976 | See Source »

...only failures on Prisoner in Disguise are two tedious songs by John David Souther, who apparently thinks that if you make a song long, slow, and wordy, people will think it's profound or at least sensitive. But these two--"Silver Blue" and the title song--are simply boring: in singing them, Ronstadt almost defies the listener to pay attention...

Author: By Steve Chapman, | Title: Talent Undisguised | 9/30/1975 | See Source »

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