DishDiva says: Welcome to MSN Live! This afternoon we are pleased to welcome recording artist Jackson Browne to MSN. Jackson's new release is "Naked Ride Home." You can pick up Jackson's new CD tomorrow or pre-order it tonight online!

DishDiva says: Jackson, welcome. It is fabulous to have you here! You must be excited about the release.

Jackson_Browne_Live says: Great! I've really had a lot of really great conversations in the last couple of hours. I'm very excited that my record is coming out tomorrow and I really like my record.

DishDiva says: We have a lot of questions about "Naked Ride Home" so let's get started!

shattered78 in Onstage1 asks: What is the significance of the title to your new record?

Jackson_Browne_Live says: It's a tradition of mine to name the album after one of the songs. It seemed to me the best title because the idea of nakedness having something to do with the truth and the idea that you have to reach the idea of the truth before you can be home.

OregonsOwn in Onstage3 asks: Seems that perhaps some of your roots include bluegrass music. I am also a fan of bluegrass music. Missed you at Telluride. How much do you enjoy that style of music?

Jackson_Browne_Live says: When I was going to high school, there was a Blue Grass band that played before school that was students. They were all good friends of mine but one was a mentor to me and he was the first guy that I knew that wrote songs. His name was Steve Noonan. And Greg Copeland started me writing songs. They would play before school in the quad so I would hear a lot of "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" and Woody Guthrie songs. So I had an eclectic Appalacian music influence. I think I kind have a country influence in my music and perhaps it comes from that.

kennysongwriter in Onstage3 asks: Is there a connection between the Going Home title of your video and The Naked Ride Home?

Jackson_Browne_Live says: No. "Going Home" was the name of the Disney series. I think everyone's was called "Going Home" quite a few artists had "Going Home" specials.

missrubrchikn in Onstage1 asks: I read that you love Kris Kristofferson's lyrics (Yours are the best). Ever considered a duet?

Jackson_Browne_Live says: Actually I sang with kris on his album called "The Austin Sessions" on a song called "Me and Bobby McGee." I could sing with him anytime, he's a great writer. He's also one of the funniest people I've ever met. I didn't know her at the time, but my first wife was in a photo with him in Life magazine. She used to go out with a friend of his, Bobby Newirth. She was picked to be Bobby McGee.

MrBlakemr in Onstage3 asks: I know Bob Dylan has shaped your songwriting in many ways. Why was he such a huge influence on you?

Jackson_Browne_Live says: He was a big influence on everybody. He was one of the first people for me that made singing stories, real. My brother was a big influence on me, he played a lot of Elvis and The Birds. He was the first person I heard sing in a distinctive way, he was very professional, but took it into a realm where everyone could do it for themselves.

EnrichingTie in Onstage3 asks: Jackson, was your new album a group effort or did you write all of the songs? I really like all of them. Which one isyour favorite?

Jackson_Browne_Live says: They were all in some way collaborations, although I sort of take credit for about four of them and share credit with the band on about 6 of them, the whole album was a collaborative process. In every case I recorded the song before the song was finished. That's how we made the most of the chemistry in this band.I consider them to be the real artists. So much of how they play individually gave rise to the direction of the song. There were a lot of times I took melodies from the instruments they were playing. For a long time I've not worried about who's in charge and we're to the point now that we don't even have totalk, just play and listen. They're also familiar with my process and approach. Kevin my co-producer says that everything has to go through "my filter" and sometimes it takes me time to change it the way I want it.

Omegapam1 in Onstage1 asks: Jackson, my sisters and I are hugh fans. Don't want to date myself but we've been watching your Chicago shows for 20 years. Are you coming to Chicago or vicinity soon?

Jackson_Browne_Live says: Yeah, I am coming to Chicago, but I don't have my schedule in front of me. Basically I'm on tour between October 26th to December 20th. I'm opening for Tom Petty, we both have new albums.

DishDiva says: Learn more about Jackson's tour at http://www.jacksonbrowne.com

Jackson_Browne_Live says: We have plans to tour in Australia in January, Europe in March, and Japan in May.

Mohltrain1 in Onstage1 asks: Does Scott Thurston play on the new record? It didn't sound like it from what I heard on Elektra's web site. If not, why not?

Jackson_Browne_Live says: Scott, after many years and several albums playing with both me and Tom Petty, we've tried not to wear him out too bad, but he didn't have much rest between it all. At one point he staged a retirement (laughs) and we took stock of how best to use him. Scott will always be a huge influence on me and he was a really great partner on a lot of music I made. We toured in '96 for a few months and burnt him out and I don't want to overwork him again. He's available for me, but the Heartbreakers have become a good home to him, and the way they use him is a full use of his skills and gifts. I hope that we'll sing again at some point. Last summer Scott joined me for part of the show, partly because Jeff Young couldn't be with us and I really needed Scott to fill his part. Scott and I have remained good friends and see each other all the time. It's a much better arrangement to not have him playing in two bands at one time.

Magicme6 in Onstage1 asks: Jackson, how has your music changed from the 70's til now?

Jackson_Browne_Live says: Ohhh!!(laughs) Honestly, I think the music especially in the beginning,especially untile recently the music has serve the lyrics. I felt the music was there to help the lyrics, it was a kind of mistaken notion. I never really demanded much of myself as a guitarist. There is a great musician joke, "How many members are in your band? - 4 members and a drummer" so you have to give credit to everyone in the band. My father always told me to play with people that were better than me. I also aspired to play the simple elemental things to serve the lyrics. My strategy was to find the best players to pull their creativity. Some things I spend a lot of time on the music,but I find that when I go to record it, I find that it germinates from ideas from the group. So I would say that now I've learned how to use the whole band. I may write songs with the group and then learn to play it myself. I've done that with my solo acoustic version of "In the Shape of a Heart." I kind of go back and forth between playing with the band and playing with myself.

CAsnshne17 in Onstage3 asks: Which do you like playing better - keyboards or guitar?

Jackson_Browne_Live says: They both feed each other. I guess I like guitar better. I have a real love of guitars and I've gotten to where it's relaxing. If I had a hobby it's rescuing guitars that may not be the kind that everyone collects but hold interest to me. Like the guitar I play on stage right now has a speaker in it. I don't use the speaker, and it's interesting to see the slots, but that's not the good part of the guitar, it's the sound. It's made by the Teisco Company in Japan. The pickups that come from this guitar have been used by Ry Cooder and David Lindley. Lindley is apt to use the Teisco just the way he finds them and Ry takes the pickups out and puts them in another guitar. The art of making guitars has progressed in the last 20 or 30 years. There's some inovative and beautiful design changes. I have a lot of old guitars, and they all have some use, I don't collect them just to collect them. I make the distinction because some collectors are interested in the historic value. I have friends that make guitars and I buy guitars if they hold some promise. We refer to them as "having songs in them." Guitars make you play in a different way and if it makes you write something in a new way it's paid for itself many times over.

DishDiva says: Jackson, I love the song that refers to a woman who can't fit into her jeans anymore, because she's pregnant. Can you talk about song?

Jackson_Browne_Live says: It's called "Ready or Not." I wrote that for the mother of my first child who I married eventually. In the first verse she's having trouble getting into her jeans and in the second verse I write about how I have trouble getting into her jeans. I tried to write myself in that situation. Instead of writing I wasn't ready, I kept writing, maybe out of uncertainty, but the last verse she didn't like or think was exactly accurate. I sort of resolve the situation by saying I got used to her cooking. It got to the point where I stopped singing that song because of the last verse. I thought I would take out the last verse. Then I grew up and realized it was ok to be uncomfortable in a situation. So now I can sing the song without the last verse.

Magicme6 in Onstage1 asks: Jackson, I just wanted you to know that your music has been the theme song of my life from dating to marriage to divorce to dating-full circle.

DishDiva says: Do you hear this sort of comment often?

Jackson_Browne_Live says: What you said is interesting. Full circle, our lives are made up of circles and the circle is represented in this album. "The Naked Ride Home" is about an end of a relationships, there's another sing about recovering from the end of a relationship and realizing there's something better down the line. Then another song about the next phase about a relationship goes on. Then the end is about a relationship that has gone for a long time. To me that is full circle, when you get to a place where you can experience a relationship that lasts and is in the act of lasting.

DishDiva says: Jackson, thanks so much for joining us on the eve of the release of "The Naked Ride Home." From all of your fans here on MSN, best of luck with "The Naked Ride Home."

Jackson_Browne_Live says: Thank you so much for joining this chat and for all of your questions. I hope these songs work for you in the way they have worked for me.

DishDiva says: Thanks to Jackson Browne for stopping by MSN Live tonight! Pick up "The Naked Ride Home" tonight online!

Peacany1 in Onstage1 asks: thanks jackson.....now maybe my hives will leave soon...night..and seee you at b&n tomorrow

succulanttulip in Onstage1 asks: Thanks Jackson, I love you udingle1 in Onstage1 asks: Your Great!! We will all be in the stores tomorrow......

Omegapam1 in Onstage1 asks: Bye Jackson and Thanks!!

Gypsyfw in Onstage3 asks: Thank You Jackson!!!!

ElusiveRattlyBobcat in Onstage3 asks: Thank you for all you do!

CedarRapids-IA--Michelle in Onstage3 asks: I enjoyed this, thoroughly, even though he didn't get to my questions/comments ...he's a busy guy! Love ya, J.B.!!!!!!!!!!

DishDiva says: Wish we could have gotten to every question but there were SO many!

DishDiva says: And Jackson had to go to get ready for tomorrow's launch of "The Naked Ride Home."

Streetlegal21 in Onstage3 asks: Thank you Jackson, hope to hear you play in the UK soon!