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Jackson Browne
Jackson Browne has written and
performed some of the most literate and moving songs in popular music
and has defined a genre of songwriting
charged with honesty, emotion and personal politics.
He’s been honored with inductions into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2004).
and the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame (2007).
At the latter ceremony, Jackson performed his song
“Lives In The Balance,” which SHOF notes is,
“a fitting example of how his social
and political activism has influenced much of his work.”
As influential and enduring as his music is
Browne’s legacy as an advocate for social and environmental justice.
In 2007, he
received the Chapin-World Hunger Year Harry Chapin Humanitarian Award.
In 2004,
Jackson was named an honorary Doctorate of Music by
Occidental College in Los
Angeles,
for "a remarkable musical career that has successfully combined an
intensely personal artistry with a broader vision of social justice."
In 2002,
he was the fourth recipient of the John Steinbeck Award,
given to artists whose
works exemplify the environmental and social values
that were essential to the
great California-born author.
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