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Jackson Browne
Heidelberg, Germany
Browne was born October 9, 1948, in Heidelberg, Germany, where his father Clyde Jack Browne, an American serviceman, was stationed for his job assignment with the Stars and Stripe…
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Browne was born October 9, 1948, in Heidelberg, Germany, where his father Clyde Jack Browne, an American serviceman, was stationed for his job assignment with the Stars and Stripes newspaper. Browne's mother, Beatrice Amanda (née Dahl), was a Minnesota native of Norwegian ancestry. Browne has three siblings. Roberta "Berbie" Browne was born in 1946 in Nuremberg, Germany; and Edward Severin Browne was born in 1949 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. His younger sister, Gracie Browne, was born a number of years later. At the age of three, Browne and his family moved to his grandfather's house, Abbey San Encino, in the Highland Park district of Los Angeles. In his teens, he began singing folk songs in local venues such as the Ash Grove and The Troubador Club. He attended Sunny Hills High School in Fullerton, California, graduating in 1966. Clyde Jackson Browne is a German/American singer-songwriter and musician who has sold over 18 million albums in the United States. Coming to prominence in the 1970s, Browne has written and recorded songs such as "These Days", "The Pretender", "Running on Empty", "Lawyers in Love", "Doctor My Eyes", "Take It Easy", "For a Rocker", and "Somebody's Baby". In 2004, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio, and given an honorary doctorate of music by Occidental College in Los Angeles, California. In 2015, Rolling Stone ranked him as 37th in its list of the "100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time".
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2025
Billy Joel: And So It Goes
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2024
Lost Angel: The Genius of Judee Sill
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- 2023
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2022
Immediate Family
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2022
Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On
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2022
Dirty Daddy: The Bob Saget Tribute
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2022
Really Good Rejects
Movie
- 2021
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2021
The Velvet Underground
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2020
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2020 Inductions
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2020
Linda and the Mockingbirds
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2020
Laurel Canyon
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2019
The Story of Plastic
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2019
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
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2019
David Crosby: Remember My Name
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2019
Echo in the Canyon
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2019
The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash
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2017
Roy Orbison: Black and White Night 30
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2015
The Poet of Havana
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2014
Station to Station
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2014
ACL Presents: Americana Music Festival 2014
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- 2014
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2014
Bruce Springsteen A MusiCares Tribute
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2014
Off Camera with Sam Jones
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2013
Jackson Browne: I'll Do Anything - Live In Concert
Movie Musician
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2013
History of the Eagles
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2012
Jackson Browne with Special Guest Sara Watkins Live
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2011
Troubadours
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2011
The Eagles - Earlybird Live Usa 1974 & Europe 1973
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- 2010
- 2009
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2008
Talking Guitars
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2007
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
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- 2007
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2005
Trudell
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2003
Ed Sullivan Presents: Rock 'N' Roll Revolution: The British Invade America, America Fights Back
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2003
Soundstage
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2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
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2002
The Making and Meaning of 'We Are Family'
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1999
Raitt, Browne, Colvin, Hornsby, Lindley & Ingram - Red Rocks, Denver - Sept.12, 1999
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