Jackson Browne: ‘I think desire is the last domino to fall’

The singer-songwriter discusses his new album and how his age and the current political landscape has shifted his musical direction

In the nearly seven years leading up to Jackson Browne's new album, Downhill from Everywhere, he entered a new decade of life (his 70s), became a grandfather and saw fresh waves of activists, from the MeToo movement to Black Lives Matter, replace the ones that had inspired him in the 60s and 70s. At the same time, many of his new songs center on a theme most people associate with the bloom of youth: desire. I think desire is the last domino to fall," Browne said in a phone interview from his LA home. Desire is eternal, like hope. It's just your capacity to act on it that changes," he added with a dark laugh.

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