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    Running on plenty

    Aug 21, 2022 5 minutes
    GRAHAM REID

    A year ago, when American singer-songwriter Jackson Browne released his 15th studio album, Downhill from Everywhere, the British rock magazine Uncut proclaimed it “as insightful, melodic and artfully measured as anything Browne has put his name to in the past 25 years”.

    Despite that assessment – Mojo accorded it four stars – the album didn’t sell anything like those of his 70s heyday, Late for the Sky, The Pretender and Running on Empty, and 1980’s Hold Out.

    But it did get him a Grammy nomination in the Americana category, 50 years after his eponymous debut album, which must have meant high-fives and “Yeah, the kid’s still got it” celebrations?

    “Yes, I was pretty happy about that,” he chuckles briefly, before again adopting a

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