BROWNE,JACKSON - PRETENDER Vinyl LP

Expected: 01/15/2027

50 years since its original release in 1976, Jackson Browne's acclaimed album The Pretender is being reissued by Inside Recordings. The album has been remastered and is presented in a top-quality, faithful reproduction of its original packaging, overseen by Jackson Browne. The digital remastered audio is licensed from Inside Recordings to Rhino Records in a partnered release.

"The most striking songs on The Pretender are concerned with death and parenthood, subjects not necessarily unrelated. Often, his apocalyptic imagery is merely a way of getting at his feelings of mortality-the crumbling towers of Babylon in 'The Fuse' are as much about the inevitable erosion of time as anything else. And parenthood is seen as a symbol of the middle-class life he has experienced: it's both a joy and a trap. In 'Daddy's Tune,' he reaches out to his father, long ago alienated, in order to share with him the turmoil of advising his son in 'The Only Child.' In a way, this is his ultimate dilemma - to be a father, or to be a son. And his ultimate triumph is to realize and reconcile the parent and the child in each of us.

"'The Pretender' is a breakthrough. Browne has always had traces of cynicism in his writing, but about romance he has remained firm. Love can make a difference, all of his songs say. But 'The Pretender' is a song about why even that won't work, in the long run. In its most shattering moment, the hero imagines what he and his dream-lover will do, if ever they manage to meet." - Dave Marsh, Rolling Stone, 1976

Tracks:

Side A
1. The Fuse
2. Your Bright Baby Blues
3. Linda Paloma
4. Here Come Those Tears Again

Side B
1. The Only Child
2. Daddy's Tune
3. Sleep's Dark and Silent Gate
4. The Pretender

Label: Inside Recordings