{"id":2448694,"date":"2019-09-13T08:40:03","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T14:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=883518"},"modified":"2019-09-13T08:40:03","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T14:40:03","slug":"flashback-jackson-browne-performs-a-heart-wrenching-late-for-the-sky-in-1976","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/flashback-jackson-browne-performs-a-heart-wrenching-late-for-the-sky-in-1976\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: Jackson Browne Performs a Heart-Wrenching \u2018Late for the Sky\u2019 in 1976"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jackson Browne<\/a>\u2019s 1976 was a tumultuous one. In February, his emotive ballad \u201cLate for the Sky\u201d was featured in Taxi Driver<\/em><\/a>, during a scene in which Robert De Niro watches American Bandstand<\/em> shortly after shooting a man in a bodega. In March, while Browne was in the studio cutting The Pretender,<\/em> his wife Phyllis Major fatally overdosed on barbiturates. \u201cHere Come Those Tears Again,\u201d a devastating song co-written by Major\u2019s mother, was included on the album.<\/p>\n

To promote The Pretender<\/em>, Browne appeared on the television series Soundstage<\/em>, performing tracks from the new record as well as from 1974\u2019s Late for the Sky<\/em>, released 45 years ago today. Browne performs the title track in the video above, sitting at the piano accompanied by his band. \u201cYou never knew what I loved in you\/I don\u2019t know what you loved in me,\u201d he sings, strands of hair falling across his eyes. \u201cMaybe the picture of somebody you were hoping I might be.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLate for the Sky\u201d opens the album, a heartbreaking tale of a disintegrating relationship that sets the mood for the seven songs that followed \u2014 the arresting emotional maturity of \u201cFountain of Sorrow,\u201d the stunning \u201cFor a Dancer\u201d and the laid-back rocker \u201cBefore the Deluge.\u201d \u201cIt was my literary period: long-form, rambling songs in iambic pentameter with that run-on philosophical attitude,\u201d Browne told Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a> of the album in 1983. \u201cI was wistful, searching bleary-eyed for God in the crowds.\u201d<\/p>\n

Inspired by Ren\u00e9 Magritte\u2019s 1954 series of paintings L\u2019Empire des Lumieres<\/em>, the iconic album cover features a 1950s Chevrolet parked on a residential street in South Pasadena, beneath a streetlamp and the expansive evening sky. The cozy, private scene encapsulated the self-reflective songwriting on the album. It would influence many artists in the following decades, including Bruce Springsteen, who praised it while inducting Browne<\/a> into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004. \u201cIn Seventies post-Vietnam America,\u201d Springsteen said, \u201cthere was no album that captured the fall from Eden, the long, slow afterburn of the Sixties, its heartbreak, its disappointments, its spent possibilities better than Jackson\u2019s masterpiece Late for the Sky.<\/em>\u201c<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the past six years, I\u2019ve been meeting people who tell me they prefer Late for the Sky<\/em> to anything I\u2019ve done since,\u201d Browne told RS<\/em> in \u201983. \u201cThe intimate, confessional and introspective song really had its time.\u201d Browne has continued to play \u201cLate for the Sky\u201d throughout the years. Chances are high he\u2019ll play it on the newly announced Lantern Tour II<\/a>, which benefits migrants affected at the border.<\/p>\n

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Jackson Browne\u2019s 1976 was a tumultuous one. In February, his emotive ballad \u201cLate for the Sky\u201d was featured in Taxi Driver, during a scene in which Robert De Niro watches American Bandstand shortly after shooting a man in a bodega. In March, while Browne was in the studio cutting The Pretender, his wife Phyllis Major […]<\/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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2448694","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 19:38:37","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":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2448694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}