“You Love The Thunder” by Jackson Browne

"You Love the Thunder" comes from Running on Empty, Jackson Browne's 1977 live album, and it was caught on tape at the Garden State Arts Center in Holmdel, New Jersey, on September 6, 1977. Browne wrote it, sang it and produced it, with Greg Ladanyi engineering. It reads like a portrait of a musician and the wife or girlfriend who follows him out on the road, right in step with the album's theme, though it stretches to fit plenty of other couples too.

Asylum held it back as a single for a whole year after the album, making it the third one released, following "Stay", and it stalled at 109 on Billboard's Bubbling Under chart, even as album-rock radio gave it more play. The US single carried "The Road" on the B-side; the British one had "Cocaine".

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