Learning Guitar Pop Song 16 'These Days' Jackson Browne 1967

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Learning Guitar Pop Song 16 'These Days' Jackson Browne

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1RBXpCSdHU&t=0s

Browne wrote the song at age 16; its lyrics deal with loss and regret.

By 1973, Jackson Browne had become a successful recording artist, and not having raided his back catalogue for the first album, was willing to do so for his second, For Everyman. Recorded at the Sunset Sound Factory, the song had evolved considerably from the version Nico had recorded in 1967. Some lyrics were changed or omitted, such as a couple of lines about "rambling" and "gambling". The fingerpicking guitar figure was replaced with flatpicking, and the slower-paced instrumentation was typical of early 1970s Southern Californian folk rock — drums, bass, piano, acoustic guitar, but most prominently with David Lindley's slide guitar, a feature of Browne's early albums, but also with Jim Keltner on drums and David Paich on piano. Nico's cool delivery was replaced by Browne's singer-songwriter-style approach, resulting in a vocal that Philadelphia City Paper later called "unique, and piercingly sad". The version was recorded at around the same time as a version by Gregg Allman, which Jackson thanked in his liner notes in For Everyman; Browne based the musical arrangement of his 1973 recording partly on Allman's version; the two versions were released within days of each other in October, 1973. Allman's version would appear on his debut solo album, Laid Back (and following by a year or two the loss of bandmates Duane Allman and Berry Oakley in motorcycle accidents).

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