“RUNNING ON EMPTY”
Jackson Browne
THIS SIGNATURE JACKSON Browne song, recorded live with his band in 1977, features the combined use of three different tunings — standard, open A and open E (transposed up a perfect 4th) — which together create a rich bed of harmony, along with the piano, bass and lead and background vocals.
Browne (Gtr. 1) plays the song in open A tuning (low to high: E, A, E, A, C#, E), using mostly one-finger barre chords and a Keith Richards-style move for D/A that includes a rich-sounding “bonus add9” color tone on the 1st string. Meanwhile, fellow electric guitarist Danny Kortchmar performs the song in standard tuning (Gtr.
