JACKSON BROWNE – RUNNING ON EMPTY LP – Nr MINT/EXC+ A1 UK 1978

Jackson Browne – Running On Empty
(Asylum Records  1978  K53070)
Matrix No’s: A1/B2 – UK Pressing

Sleeve in Very Good+ condition
– wear to edges/corners & some marks on back cover
Inner Sleeve in Nr MINT condition
8 Page Booklet in Nr MINT condition

Vinyl in Nr MINT/Excellent+ condition
(there are some surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality apart from the odd light pop/crackle)

Clyde Jackson Browne (born October 9, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter and musician who has sold over 18 million albums in the United States. Coming to prominence in the 1970s, Browne has written and recorded songs such as “These Days”, “The Pretender”, “Running on Empty”, “Lawyers in Love”, “Doctor My Eyes”, “Take It Easy”, “For a Rocker”, and “Somebody’s Baby”. In 2004, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio, and given an honorary doctorate of music by Occidental College in Los Angeles, California. In 2015, Rolling Stone ranked him as 37th in its list of the “100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time”.

Running on Empty is the fifth album by American singer-songwriter Jackson Browne. Featuring songs themed around life on the road, the entire album was recorded on tour, either live on stage, or in locations associated with touring, such as backstage, on tour buses, or in hotel rooms. Released in 1977, the album reached No. 3 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart in 1978 and stayed on the charts for 65 weeks. The single for the title track, “Running on Empty”, peaked at No. 11 and the follow-up single, “The Load-Out”/”Stay”, reached No. 20 on the Billboard Pop Singles chart.

The album received two Grammy Award nominations in 1979: one for Album of the Year and the other for Pop Male Vocal Performance for the song “Running on Empty”.

Track listing

1. “Running on Empty” (Jackson Browne) – 5:20
   • Recorded live (8/27/77), Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, Maryland
2. “The Road” (Danny O’Keefe) – 4:50
   • Recorded in room 301 (8/27/77), Cross Keys Inn, Columbia, MD (first — 2:58) and live (9/7/77), Garden State Arts Center, Holmdel, New Jersey
3. “Rosie” (Browne, Donald Miller) – 3:37
   • Recorded backstage (9/1/77) “in the big rehearsal room”, Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, New York
   • Doug Haywood and tour photographer Joel Bernstein sing harmony.
4. “You Love the Thunder” (Browne) – 3:52
   • Recorded live (9/6/77), Holmdel, New Jersey
5. “Cocaine” (Reverend Gary Davis, additional lyrics by Browne and Glenn Frey) – 4:55
   • Recorded in room 124 (8/17/77), Holiday Inn, Edwardsville, Illinois
6. “Shaky Town” (Danny Kortchmar) – 3:36
   • Recorded in room 124 (8/18/77), Holiday Inn, Edwardsville, Illinois
   • Danny Kortchmar sings harmony.
7. “Love Needs a Heart” (Browne, Valerie Carter, Lowell George) – 3:28
   • Recorded live (9/17/77), Universal City, California
8. “Nothing but Time” (Browne, Howard Burke) – 3:05
   • Recorded “on a bus (a Continental Silver Eagle) somewhere in New Jersey” (9/8/77)
   • Russ Kunkel is credited as playing “snare, hi-hat, and cardboard box with foot pedal.” The song was recorded aboard the band’s Continental Silver Eagle tour bus (hence the lyrical reference to “Silver Eagle”) while en route from Portland, Maine to their next gig in New Jersey. The bus’s engine is audible in the background throughout, and its downshift and acceleration can be plainly heard during the bridge.
9. “The Load-Out” (Browne, Bryan Garofalo) – 5:38
   • Recorded live (8/27/77), Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, Maryland
10. “Stay” (Maurice Williams) – 3:28
    • Recorded live (8/27/77), Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, Maryland
    • David Lindley and Rosemary Butler share lead vocals with Browne.

Personnel

• Jackson Browne – vocals, guitar, acoustic piano
• Rosemary Butler – background vocals, co-lead vocal on “Stay”
• Craig Doerge – acoustic piano, Fender Rhodes, Minimoog, Oberheim synthesizer, string synthesizer, Hammond organ
• Doug Haywood – background vocals
• Danny Kortchmar – lead guitar, harmony vocals (on “Shaky Town”)
• Russ Kunkel – drums, snare drum, cardboard box, hi-hat
• David Lindley – lap steel guitar, fiddle, co-lead vocal on “Stay”
• Leland Sklar – bass guitar
• Joel Bernstein – background vocals (on “Rosie”)

Tour staff

• Howard Burke – tour manager
• Donald “Buddah” Miller – production manager
• Jan Michael Alejandro – drum technician
• Eric Deterding – stage technician
• Michael Deterding – stage technician
• Bill Thompson – technician
• Edd Kolakowski – Steinway piano and keyboards technician
• Dave Hassingar – technician
• Jim Nipar – technician
• Chris Cabral – technical advisor
• Alan Owen, Kevin Di Piazza and Jim Waits – lighting crew
• Jim Bornhorst – house PA mixer
• Bill “Doc” Gans – monitor engineer
• Rance Caldwell – monitor engineer
• Peter Golden – booking coordination
• Thomas Gustaferro – bus driver
• Jimmy Deluca, Bryan Lisenbee and Mike Rogers – truck drivers

Production

• Producer – Jackson Browne
• Engineer – Greg Ladanyi
• Recording in Hotel and Bus on Record Plant NY Remote Truck.
• Assistant Engineers – David Hewitt, Norman Mershon and Mark Salwasser (bus and hotel recordings); Russell Schmitt and Tom Walsh (stage recordings).
• Mix Assistants – Dennis Kirk and George Ybarra
• Mixed at The Sound Factory (Hollywood, CA).
• Mastered by Bernie Grundman at A&M Studios (Hollywood, CA).
• Art Direction and Design – Jimmy Wachtel
• Photography – Joel Bernstein (tour) and Aaron Rapaport (other).