Prints

Jackson Browne, 2022

archival pigment print on Moab Entrada Natural 290 paper  
16 x 20 in

When Jackson Browne first came on the scene in the mid-1970s, Joan was attracted to his literate and passionate songwriting, the way it subtly reflected the zeitgeist of that post-Vietnam War era. She recorded his haunting “Fountain of Sorrow” on her “Diamonds & Rust” album and his “Before the Deluge” on her 1979 album “Honest Lullaby.”

Like Joan, Browne has been a committed activist from early in his career, co-founding the anti-nuclear Musicians United for Safe Energy (MUSE) in 1979 and getting himself arrested protesting the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant in California. His 1986 album “Lives in the Balance” was a seen as a condemnation of U.S. policy in Central America, the title track a denunciation of U.S. backed wars in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala. Over the decades he’s performed at benefit concerts for Farm Aid, Amnesty International, Seva, a nonprofit founded by Joan’s sister Mimi Farina called Bread & Roses, and other causes.

“He’s put himself on the line for a variety of things,” Joan says. “I have a lot of respect for him.”

Browne has been on tour in 2022 and continues in 2023 in Japan, Australia and New Zealand. For the release of the print, Joan wanted to donate 25% of the proceeds to a non-profit of Browne’s choosing. Jackson selected the Fernando Pullum Community Arts Center – an organization that provides quality performing arts instruction to youth in South Central Los Angeles.