Standing in the Breach

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Standing in the Breach
Jackson Browne - Standing in the Breach.jpeg
Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 7, 2014
Recorded2013-2014
Studio
Genre Rock
Length55:07
Label Inside
Producer Jackson Browne and Paul Dieter
Jackson Browne chronology
Love Is Strange: En Vivo Con Tino
(2010)
Standing in the Breach
(2014)
Downhill from Everywhere
(2021)

Standing in the Breach is the fourteenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Jackson Browne. It was released on October 7, 2014, by Inside Recordings and was his first album of new material in six years.

Contents

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 71/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [2]
PopMatters 7/10 [3]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]

Track listing

All tracks composed by Jackson Browne except where noted. Lyrics available at Jackson Browne's website. [5]

  1. "The Birds of St. Marks" – 4:23
  2. "Yeah Yeah" – 6:15
  3. "The Long Way Around" – 6:26
  4. "Leaving Winslow" – 3:53
  5. "If I Could Be Anywhere" – 7:08
  6. "You Know the Night" (words: Woody Guthrie; music: Jackson Browne, Rob Wasserman) – 5:32
  7. "Walls and Doors" (Carlos Varela; English translation by Jackson Browne) – 6:02
  8. "Which Side" – 6:38
  9. "Standing in the Breach" – 5:37
  10. "Here" – 4:26

Personnel

Production

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References

  1. "Standing in the Breach - Jackson Browne". Metacritic. Retrieved 17 October 2014.
  2. Jurek, Thom. "Standing in the Breach - Jackson Browne". AllMusic. Retrieved 17 October 2014.
  3. Caldwell, Rob. "Jackson Browne: Standing in the Breach". Pop Matters. Retrieved 17 October 2014.
  4. Decurtis, Anthony. "Standing in the Breach - Jackson Browne". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 17 October 2014.
  5. Song lyrics at Browne's official site