This week's selection is one that everybody on RR knows and most likely heard more than a few times. I liked it quite a bit back in my college days, although I can't recall listening to it in its entirety for many years. His was a novel approach for sure, using all new material for a live recording, and it was a huge success.


12) Running On Empty--Jackson Browne: Everyone was releasing double live albums in the 1970s to resell their back catalog. Jackson Browne decided to try something different. He took to the road and recorded new material written by himself, members of his backing band and a couple of covers at gigs, at soundcheck, in the back of the bus, in hotel rooms. And even the songs themselves concerned being on the road. Not exactly Kerouac here thumbing a ride, but on the road, nonetheless. And all on one record, not two. Economical like a hybrid, Browne has always been pro-environment.

Swish - 12 down, 13 to go