“The Beach
Boys and Brian Wilson, they gave us California as paradise and Jackson Browne
gave us Paradise Lost. Now I always imagine, what if Brian Wilson, long after
he’d taken a bite of that orange the serpent offered to him, what if he married
that nice girl in Caroline No? I always figured that she was pregnant anyway,
and what if he moved into the valley and had two sons? One of them would have
looked and sounded just like Jackson Browne. Cain, of course, would have been
Jackson's brother in arms, Warren Zevon. We love ya, Warren. But, Jackson to
me, Jackson was always the tempered voice of Abel. Toiling in the vineyards,
here to bear the earthly burdens, confronting the impossibility of love, here
to do his father’s work. Jackson's work was really California pop gospel.”
It’s
not as if I needed an excuse to create a Jackson Browne/Warren Zevon mixtape,
given that they’re both on my short list of pantheon artists, but Bruce’s
speech was all the incentive I needed.
It doesn’t have a date on it, but I’m guessing sometime in late 2004.
Abel & Cain: Jackson
Browne and Warren Zevon
Doctor
My Eyes
Redneck
Friend
Desperados
Under the Eaves
Poor
Poor Pitiful Me
Late
for the Sky
Before
the Deluge
Carmelita
Roland
the Headless Thompson Gunner
Lawyers,
Guns and Money
The
Pretender
Running
on Empty
Sentimental
Hygiene
Lawyers
in Love
In
the Shape of a Heart
Bad
Karma
The
Indifference of Heaven
Sky
Blue and Black
I
Was in the House When the House Burned Down
My
Ride’s Here
The
Naked Ride Home
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