Song 811: This week the playlist applauds Lawyers in Love by Jackson Browne, who also wrote the song, and you can find a YouTube video of it by clicking on the title. I first saw Mr. Brown's name as the songwriter for a pair of tunes I really liked on a Tom Rush album I had gotten in 1971 and the next year I got a copy of Jackson's first 33 soon after he had it released. I bought at least one or two other JB 33s in the following years, but in early 1978 I unloaded my album and single collections as I planned to head westward from the Windy City area. Not long after I got a lift to the East Bay, I found a nice place to reside in Oakland and discovered a pizza joint in Berkeley where a bunch of fellow singer-songwriter types shared their tuneful rambles. In 1981 the house I lived in got sold and fortunately a room became available at a Berkeley home where a group of my musical friends lived and I moved into that available space. About two-and-a-half years later, the J.B. fellow put out an album where he informed us about some affectionate legal experts and I felt the title track deserved some thoughtful attention. Back then, I couldn't always keep up with what was going on, but at the time, we did not face the risks of World War III that we had faced a couple of decades earlier and that would return soon after the New American Century arrived.
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