Jackson Browne - Fan Letters & Reviews
September 2001

NEW YORK (AP) -- Some of the originators of punk rock are represented on the 2002 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ballot, with nominees including the Sex Pistols, the Talking Heads and the Ramones, whose lead singer, Joey Ramone, died earlier this year.

Other first-time nominees include singer-songwriter JACKSON BROWNE; R&B girl group The Chantels; doo-wop group The Dells; another doo-wop group, The 5 Royales; Isaac Hayes, perhaps best known for his Shaft score; the late country-folk singer Gram Parsons; rock singer Gene Pitney; and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.

The ballot also includes previous nominees AC/DC, Patti Smith, Black Sabbath, Brenda Lee and Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Artists are eligible to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame after at least 25 years have passed since their first record was released. The inductees likely will be announced next year.

I just wanted to extend my deepest love, concern and sympathy for those who lost family and friends in the recent attack on America.

Each and every good and caring person in the world was deeply touched by the events of Tuesday morning. There are few in the United States that don't know someone who lost a relative, friend or co-working that morning.

Considering the forum, I thought I'd post the lyrics to the following song from Jackson Browne's World In Motion album:

I'm an author of some music articles and books in german language. And for sure I am a great Jackson Browne-fan since the 1970s. My publisher and me will release a german Jackson Browne biography and discography this year. My manuscript is ready, but we have no money to buy good photos of Jackson we can show in the book. Are there fans who have really good (selfmade) photographs for the project and are able to give us copies of it for free? It would be a fine gesture and a great help too. Please e-mail scanned photos (not less than 350 pixel) to Manfred.Schwanbeck@SGVSH.de

As is the case with everyone else in this country and people across the world, my heart is broken over the unimaginable tragedy of September 11. Jackson's political songs have touched me as much, if not more so, than his songs of personal love. Since that Tuesday, his words ring in my ears. It is my hope that as our country seeks comfort in retribution and considers bombing countries out of existence, that we remember Jackson's profound words. I think the reprise of Lives in the Balance will do:

There are lives in the balance,
There are people under fire,
There are children at the cannons
And there is blood on the wire...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Singers, actors and athletes gathered at a recording studio in Hollywood to re-record the R&B classic "We Are Family" to raise money for victims of this month's terrorist attacks.

"It's a relief to have something positive to do in the face of so much hatred, and to have an opportunity to try and make sure we don't go doing what's been done to us," singer Jackson Browne said Sunday.

The performance was produced by Nile Rodgers and organized by talk show host Montel Williams. A contingent in New York also lent their voices to the 1979 Sister Sledge song.

Williams said the song was meant to encourage unity.

"Right now, while we are all thinking about the victims of the tragedy of Sept. 11, we need to start thinking about the victims that we're going to create right here in our homeland by people who are just so ignorant, filled with hatred and fear," he said.

Other celebrities in attendance included singer Taylor Dayne and Los Angeles Sparks basketball star Lisa Leslie.