An Evening With Jackson Browne At Portland's Keller Auditorium
I can remember in the early seventies, my best friend called all excited about this singer called 
Jackson Browne. I walked down the block to her house where we hung out in her bedroom, plopped the vinyl on the record player and listened to his debut album over and over again.
Aah..the sound of that needle hitting the vinyl and finding it's groove. Long gone are those days where you could just while away several hours and listen to music...that is unless Jackson Browne comes to your neck of the woods to play.
Last night, good friends, my hubby and I had the pleasure of whiling away a few hours listening to Jackson Browne. Not on vinyl...although they were selling the old type albums in the lobby, but live in the Keller Auditorium in downtown Portland. It was his acoustic tour but he did have a full band on stage with him as he moved from his guitar to the piano playing song after song.
The audience..well, I guess the forum has more of an intimate feeling that allowed many to feel comfy enough to barrage Jackson with their contant s
hout out of song requests. I personally thought this was kinda rude, but Jackson Browne just went with the flow of it and when someone shouted out for him to sing "Running On Empty" he said something like "Ok, I have one rule...and that is when someone asks me to play Running On Empty, I have to sing it on the spot. and then graciously changed his guitars and started playing.
His voice is as clear and strong as ever and the audience gave him standing ovations after several songs. Many audience members just couldn't contain themselves in their seats and were up dancing away. I couldn't help but be captivated by the woman in the first row dancing away with abandon. You go girl! Now...when we played his song "Take It Easy" who he wrote and Glenn Fry of the Eagles made famous, the audience was completely on their feet!
An evening with Jackson Browne at Portland's Keller Auditorium...it was a most enjoyable evening. When I closed my eyes listening to him sing I was taken right back to those young teenager days. Life is good.
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