"[4], William Ruhlmann at Allmusic said that "'Hold on Hold Out,' the traditional big, long, last song on the album, was awkwardly, not winningly, intimate. Father to two sons (Ethan, a model and actor, from his marriage to Major, and Ryan, a musician, from his marriage to Sweeney) he seems to have found a dignified way of being a rock star of pensionable age. Jackson Browne has climbed off his soapbox to make his best album in years. He began his musical journey with the mature band Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Browne is no stranger to activism. We talked twice each time at the ungodly hour of nine in the morning before he had to rush off to rehearsals, photo sessions and so forth. She gave me the idea that you were even thinking about moving to Santa Barbara permanently. Released in 2002, The Naked Ride Home featured the single Sky Blue and Black and the album also featured the works of musicians, Keb Mo and Greg Leisz. The Take It Easy hitmaker's actor/model son was heading to an . In 2004, he was inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the same year he was conferred an honorary Doctorate of Music, by the occidental College of Los Angeles. Jackson Browne is currently dating Dianna Cohen. In 1996, his album Looking East came out, which touched political and social themes. Lynne and Jackson were married in January 1981 and after 2 years of marriage, they decided to get separated. Unresolved issues with old flames notwithstanding, Browne remains the quintessential thinking-person's pop star. In 1977, one of his most successful albums Running on Empty was released, featuring the title track Running on Empty and the single The Load-Out. Jackson Browne. Jackson Browne plays the Hammersmith Apollo, London W6 ( 020-7416 6022), tomorrow and Thursday, then tours. Ouch. Browne then married Lynne Sweeney in 1981 until their divorce in 1983, they had one son, Ryan Daniel (born 1982), then was involved with actress Daryl Hannah from 1984 until 1992, since the mid-1990s Browne has been in a relationship with artist Dianna Cohen. Model/actor Ethan Zane Browne was born at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and grew up in Los Angeles. by Taylor Swift "I knew his world moved too fast and burned too bright/But I Just thought, how can the devil be pulling you toward someone who looks so much like an angel when he smiles at you?" He also has released many hit singles and all this amount to his wealth. She rebelled against being considered a beauty, to the extent that she quite deliberately let her beauty go," says Browne, who even in his mid-sixties looks the part of the laid-back, handsome singer. Why Browne is special is probably a personal thing, but Ive always suspected that those of us who admire his admittedly autobiographical art usually find in it more about our own lives not Jacksons than wed care to convey. He began dating Dianna Cohen in the mid-'90s. At the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, the American songwriter Jackson Browne is singing Fountain of Sorrow, his heartbreak anthem from 1974. I guess there are a lot of single parents there. Please read 'Notice and Procedure for Making Claims of Copyright Infringement' at JoniMitchell.com/legal.cfm. I heard Phyllis Major, who was Jackson Browne's wife, committed suicide in March 1976. Throughout the Seventies and into the Eighties for me, at least Jackson Browne has taken over this job and done it better than anyone else. (Photo by Mervyn George Bishop/Fairfax Media via Getty Images). A few years earlier, Brown divorced his second wife, Lynne Sweeney. Add an Affair, Check out our New "Top 10 Worst Celebrity Cheaters", Go To Jackson Browne's ProfileGo To Lynne Sweeney's Profile, "My relationship [with him] is the thing I'm proudest of in my life. It took some convincing, but eventually Ethan gave it a try. Ethan, I asked, getting the tape recorder ready in the living room, do you think you could go and see if your daddys up yet?. You had to talk to Rolling Stone. Even the message of For a Rocker, a song for a friend who died, is Fuck it, lets dance, according to Jackson. in the Real World Rolling Stones 1987 Cover Story, Glastonbury Co-Organizer Promises Female Headliners in 2024 After All-Male Top Billing This Year, There Were Sidemen. Lynne and I are going to get married. With that he's gone, off to make the world a better place in the way only a rich, handsome Californian can. 28-Jan-1982) Girlfriend: Daryl Hannah (ex-) The two divorced in 1983. He founded the Musicians United for Safe Energy (MUSE) in 1979. Everyone from Loretta Lynn to Robert Plant is here, and Browne, honoured with the Spirit of Americana award, has used his time at the podium to explain how a song is a way of describing the life you know to the people around you. //