{"id":806574,"date":"2020-04-20T09:42:41","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T15:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=986611"},"modified":"2020-04-20T09:42:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T15:42:41","slug":"jackson-browne-drops-new-song-for-earth-day-downhill-from-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/jackson-browne-drops-new-song-for-earth-day-downhill-from-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Jackson Browne Drops New Song for Earth Day, \u2018Downhill From Everywhere\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jackson Browne<\/a> unveiled a sleek new song, \u201cDownhill From Everywhere,\u201d just in time for Earth Day<\/a> (April 22nd).<\/p>\n

The song will be released as a single<\/a> paired with his recent track \u201cA Little Soon to Say<\/a>\u201d as the B-side. Both will be included on his upcoming studio album, out October 9th.<\/p>\n

\u201cDownhill from everywhere\/Downhill from all you see\/The ocean is downhill from gravity,\u201d Browne sings along a smooth guitar riff. \u201cDownhill from here\/Downhill from everywhere\/Downhill from all of humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Browne has been working on \u201cDownhill From Everywhere\u201d for the past 10 years. The song will be featured in an upcoming documentary, The Story of Plastic,<\/em><\/a> premiering on Earth Day via the Discovery Channel. The film details the plastic crisis and the pollution that spans three continents \u2014 and the devastating effect it\u2019s had on the planet. Browne himself is a member of the Executive Advisory Board on the Plastic Pollution Coalition, an alliance that strives for a future free of plastic.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlastic is a great and really useful thing,\u201d he tells Rolling Stone<\/em>. \u201cBut it\u2019s just absurd that we use it to deliver things, just to deliver water to people in packaging. That stuff will be around for hundreds of years and does not biodegrade. So this movement has got a lot of attention and a lot of support. Because it\u2019s so obvious to people that it\u2019s a problem. It\u2019s no longer something that can be sort of swept under the rug.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of my favorite quotes about the plastic problem was from Jonathan Richman,\u201d Browne says. \u201cHe said, \u2018This is not going to be easy.\u2019 I love that, because that\u2019s what you have to commit yourself to. It\u2019s not going to be easy at all. That\u2019s the problem \u2014 everybody only wants to do shit that\u2019s easy. All we want to do is the easy stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Browne, the hard part is convenience. \u201cYou have to tell yourself that even when you\u2019re thirsty, you\u2019re not going to reach over and grab that plastic bottle that you were offered by somebody,\u201d he says. \u201cThere\u2019s the illusion that the water is somehow clean, but it comes out of a pipe in Delaware or New Jersey. It has nothing to do with the mountain range they put on the water bottle to make you think it\u2019s coming from snow. The water industry is really despicable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Browne has made efforts to limit his own use of plastic, eliminating it from his tour and keeping two Brita filters in his kitchen. \u201cOne is narrow so I can put in my suitcase and one\u2019s nice and big,\u201d he says. \u201cI never go to my car without a steel reusable water bottle because I get thirsty driving.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDownhill From Everywhere\u201d was inspired by Dr. Paul Ehrlich\u2019s Eco-Catastrophe!,<\/em> a book from 1969 that also inspired Browne\u2019s 1974 classic \u201cBefore the Deluge<\/a>.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019ll blow your mind how prophetic it is,\u201d Browne says. \u201cIt just describes a way in which all the dysfunction of our society compounds and starts to unravel at a certain point. The world is in tenuous balance all the time, and all the money that should go to ending poverty and solving diseases are going to the military and killing, and that\u2019s a huge business.\u201d<\/p>\n

The book also described a future pandemic. \u201cThat was the scary part then, and it\u2019s coming through now,\u201d he says. \u201cWe\u2019re not equipped to deal with a pandemic because we don\u2019t put the money there. We don\u2019t put our interest there. We\u2019re not honoring our doctors and our scientists. We\u2019re honoring the people who \u2014 as I say in \u2018Before the Deluge\u2019 \u2014 who learned how to forge the world\u2019s beauty into power.\u201d<\/p>\n

Browne has also acknowledged how the Earth has been healing amid the coronavirus pandemic. \u201cPeople have gotten a glimpse of what it\u2019s like to have no smog,\u201d he says. \u201cNature has gotten a break, and it\u2019s visible; you can see it. People are suddenly saying, \u2018Oh, yeah, this is what it\u2019s like when the skies are clear and birds are singing!\u2019 People in Spain were telling me, \u2018We saw dolphins swimming, and we never see that.\u2019 The natural world is sort of coming back.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Jackson Browne unveiled a sleek new song, \u201cDownhill From Everywhere,\u201d just in time for Earth Day (April 22nd). The song will be released as a single paired with his recent track \u201cA Little Soon to Say\u201d as the B-side. Both will be included on his upcoming studio album, out October 9th. \u201cDownhill from everywhere\/Downhill from all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-806574","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-13 13:52:27","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}