Whether the lovelorn turn of I’m Alive, Browne’s first release in four years, is due to his very public breakup with Daryl Hannah doesn’t matter: Browne has successfully managed to resurrect his persona of 20 years ago. Those albums were commercial disappointments. More recently, he has focused his discontent on social wrongs on Lives in the Balance (1986) and World in Motion (1989), pushing romance aside. On later albums such as Late for the Sky (1974), The Pretender (1976) and Running on Empty (1978), Browne became the heartbreak kid, a misunderstood male looking for a heroic love. In those days, artists like Jackson Browne and the Eagles redefined American rock. In the early ’70s, there was no need to distinguish the cowboys from the rockers, primarily because the cowboys were the rockers - longhaired desert poets with guitars and a moody, self-focused bent to their lyrics.
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