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In 1977, highly-acclaimed Southern California singer/songwriter Jackson Browne found himself to be a new dad, a suddenly single parent, and a widower following the suicide of his wife. Conventional wisdom would assume that any one of those three challenges alone could require  an entertainer to put his or her career on hold indefinitely in order to provide parenting, get affairs in order, and to grieve, yet Jackson Browne did exactly the opposite. He went on tour, finding the precise structure and almost militaristic organization of a large touring band, with day-to-day and even hour-by-hour decisions managed by others, to be comforting. And Browne found solace rather than solitude in the extended family of band members, lighting and sound technicians, riggers and roadies . From his 1972 debut, Jackson had won praise as a superb song craftsman and a meticulous record maker, placing no less than three of his earlier studio albums onto Rolling Stone magazines Top 500 Albums of All Time list, but by far his loosest, least technically perfect album Running on Empty , released December 1977, outsold all three combined.

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