Hold Out by Jackson Browne

Hold Out, Jackson Browne's sixth album, came out on Asylum on June 24, 1980, and it had a lot riding on it: through the '70s each of his records had outdone the last, and Running on Empty had stayed on the album chart for more than a year. Greg Ladanyi produced, and the sound is bigger and brawnier than the young Los Angeles songwriter's early days, rock with the windows rolled down and "Boulevard" riding out front.

The critics never warmed to it the way they had to his earlier work, but the public did: it gave Browne the only number-one album of his career. The non-album single "Somebody's Baby" and Lawyers in Love in 1983 carried him on through the decade.

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