“The Road And The Sky” by Jackson Browne

Jackson Browne wrote "The Road and the Sky" on his own and sang it on Late for the Sky, his third album, which Asylum sent out in September 1974. He'd started writing that record while still living at Abbey San Encino, the house he grew up in, and David Geffen wanted this one made quicker and cheaper than For Everyman.

So Browne brought in his road band, and it's a crew with some grit to it: David Lindley on slide and electric guitar plus fiddle, Jai Winding on piano and organ, Doug Haywood on bass and backing vocals, Larry Zack on drums and percussion, with Browne playing piano, acoustic and slide himself. Al Schmitt, who had engineered For Everyman, co-produced with him and mixed the track, and the whole album was wrapped in six weeks for half the old bill.

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