Late for the Sky

Late for the Sky Artist: Jackson Browne
Label: Dcc Compact Classics
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Limited Edition
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 010963103625
EAN: 0010963103625
ASIN: B00000016X


Release Date: 1993-05-21

Late for the Sky


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Tracks:

  1. Late For The Sky
  2. Fountain Of Sorrow
  3. Farther On
  4. The Late Show
  5. The Road And The Sky
  6. For A Dancer
  7. Walking Slow
  8. Before The Deluge

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Amazon.com

His third album, and arguably his finest, <I>Late for the Sky</I> continues Browne's sincere self-analysis into positively grim territory. The title track concerns the lingering effects of a dead relationship and was featured in Martin Scorcese's film <I>Taxi Driver</I>. While "For a Dancer" confronts death head-on, "Farther On" explains the difficulties faced by us dorks who live life through books, films, or music; and "Before the Deluge" forecasts environmental gloom and doom. Guitarist David Lindley adds terrific counterpoint to Browne's musing, supporting the tracks with tasteful slide and fiddle work. <I>--Rob O'Connor</I>

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars REMASTER ????.......2007-04-11

Fantastic work again from Jackson! My main purpose for entering this "review" is to plead with the label for a REMASTERED version....

5 out of 5 stars my favorite jackson browne album........2007-03-24

mr browne has many fine recordings out there, but none of them match this masterpiece. this is contemplative singer/songwriter stuff of the highest order. "for a dancer," is an all-time classic; a haunting meditation on death that is about as moving as soft rock gets. his vocals here are aching and gorgeous in their delivery, with that trademark phrasing that is so singularly his own. david lindley's guitar work adds a stunning beauty to the whole thing, as well. a wonderful album. one of the true highlights of the early 70's.

5 out of 5 stars Simply the Best.......2007-01-11

If you grew up with Jackson Browne....buy it - just don't commit Hari Kari as a result ;-)

5 out of 5 stars Distress, sorrow, and pain captured so brilliantly, it will blow you away.......2006-08-04

Rarely does anyone capture the hopless and scared emotions of fear and sorrow on an album. Nothing really springs to mind actually. Some may point to Neil Young's On The Beach to counter this point, but after listening to album, you find old Neil is just pissed and lost like he's always been, not in pain. Late For The Sky so captures the feelings above, that the album comes across as startling and scarey at times. But besides showing the feelings of one man, everyman can relate to this Jackson Browne tragedy. As day turned to night on the Woodstockers, and the angst of the mid 70s came along, hoplessness followed. Jackson Browne showed everyone how hopless it had become.

The first four tracks are some of the most beautiful music you may ever find. All have David Lindley, playing a creaking, pained guitar that moans with the same sorrow as Jackson. All four also carry gorgeous harmony, each voice echoing as if they all are lost. But these ones just bring you down for what comes soon. The fifth track, "The Road And The Sky" is a groovy rocker, an optimistic sounding tune that makes you feel like the damage is over and all is back in order.

But then track six comes along.

"For A Dancer," number six on Late For The Sky, contains so much pain, and so much sadness. It's hard to get through it, actually. But in the pain, there is so much beauty, Jackson's pleading voice looking for answers to the questions we all have, asking what happens to all of us at the end. Again, Lindley helps to catch Jackson's sorrows, but this time with an eerie fiddle.

Most every song on this album starts with deep sadness and distress. Many songs on here make you want to cry. Many will remind you pains you have felt yourself. But the experience this album will give you may very well change you. Each song gets a little more optimistic as is goes on, not so much as to forget the sorrows of before, but to remind us all that we just have to keep moving on. As Jackson himself sings on the For A Dancer,

"Don't let the uncertainty turn you around; the world keeps turning around, and around."

5 out of 5 stars

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