The Permanent Holdout: Jackson Browne, His Music, His America

This book dives deeply into the music, career, and activism of Jackson Browne within the context of American life and the counterculture movement of the 1960s. Known for albums like Late for the Sky, The Pretender, and Running on Empty, Jackson Browne was a master of capturing the counterculture ethos of the 1960s.Traversing his career over half a century, Cornel Bonca dives deeply into Browne’s music and activism-including environmentalism-within the context of American life, revealing a figure still fueled by American ideals like justice, freedom, and equality for all. Growing up in Southern California in the early 1960s, Browne was greatly influenced by his mother’s progressive politics, the music of Bob Dylan and the speeches of Martin Luther King.Later drawn to the Laurel Canyon rock scene, he moved to Los Angeles and established himself as a songwriter for The Eagles, Linda Ronstadt, and many others, becoming a fixture of the singer-songwriter movement in the early 1970s.His musi