Jackson Browne - MOUNTAIN VIEW CD

SUPERB 1986 BROADCASTJackson Browne’s 1983 album Lawyers in Love, signalled a discernible change from the personal to the political in his lyrics. Political protest however came to the fore in Browne's music in the 1986 album, Lives in the Balance, an explicit condemnation of U.S. policy in Central America. Flavoured with new instrumental textures, it was a huge success with many Browne fans, though not with mainstream audiences. The title track, with its Andean pan pipes and lines like, "There's a shadow on the faces / Of the men who fan the flames / Of the wars that are fought in places / Where we can't even say the names" was an outcry against U.S.-backed wars in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala. The song was used at several points in the award-winning 1987 PBS documentary, The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis, by journalist Bill Moyers, and was part of the soundtrack of Stone's War, a 1986 Miami Vice episode focusing on American involvement in Central America.
During the 1980s, Browne performed frequently at benefit concerts for causes he supported, including Farm Aid, Amnesty International (making several appearances on the 1986 A Conspiracy of Hope tour), post-Somoza revolutionary Nicaragua, and the Christic Institute. The Lives In The Balance Tour began on May 31st ’86, and took in shows in the US, Germany and the UK. One of the best performances Browne gave during this jaunt was played at the Shoreline Amphitheatre, in Mountain View, CA, on 22nd August 1986. Recorded for live FM Radio broadcast this stunning West Coast concert is now available in its entirety on this new CD.