Old Enough to Forget

Hold Out came after a three year hiatus, and it would set the pattern for his releases through the '80s. After the success of Running on Empty it seemed like an eternity between records but his audience was waiting patiently and Hold Out would become his lone number one album on the Billboard charts. The album didn't do as well here in Canada but it would crack the top ten stalling at number six. This was the album I came to a few years later when my friend Steve couldn't stop heaping praise on the record. At the time I was enjoying Lawyers in Love and I did like the songs I'd heard on the radio. Over the years I've had this album on vinyl, then CD and now again on vinyl. Why get it again? It was on sale ... and I'm a sucker ... and despite some pithy comments to come, I really liked this album. It's always fun going back and reading up on things that are decades old and discovering the vitriol some artists are blessed with from the various critics. Jackso...

1983 was a great year for music. Of course there were other great years - lots and lots of them, especially the ones during my formative years. The early '80s though was something special. Jackson Browne was someone who had quite a few songs I liked but it wasn't until he released Lawyers in Love that I decided to put some cash on the table (The Fast Tmes soundtrack doesn't count). There was something hilariously goofy and awesome about the title track and it didn't matter where I was (or am, as I discovered when the song came on) if the song came on I had to wait patiently for my cue to sing along. Last night I watched the news from Washington, the capitol (that would be me) The Russians escaped while we weren't watching them, like Russians will (still me, but with gusto) The Tarzan falsetto is still out of my range, but there are times I still give it a shot. The dog doesn't like it. Anyway, the song is still one of those guilty pleasures, but this album got...