Lives in the Balance

Lives in the Balance

Infobox Album |
Name = Lives in the Balance
Type = Album
Artist = Jackson Browne


Released = February 18, 1986
Recorded = 1985
Genre = Rock
Length = 38:53
Label = Asylum
Producer = Jackson Browne
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:keb1z88ajyvj~T1 link]
* Robert Christgau (B) [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=jackson+browne link]
*"Rolling Stone" (favorable) [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/jacksonbrowne/albums/album/285087/review/5941936/lives_in_the_balance link]
Last album = "Lawyers in Love"
(1983)
This album = "Lives in the Balance"
(1986)
Next album = "World in Motion"
(1989)

"Lives in the Balance" is the eighth album by American singer/songwriter Jackson Browne, released in 1986 (see 1986 in music). It was the first album by Browne where overtly political and socially critical songs dominated, although it also included one of his best remembered songs about relationships, the tragic "In the Shape of a Heart", inspired by his relationship with his first wife. Rolling Stone magazine ranked the album #88 on its list of the best 100 albums of the 1980s. Among Browne's fans, the album can be somewhat divisive. While many feel it is inferior to his 1970's output, others hail it as one of his strongest albums. The radio play garnered by "For America" and "In the Shape of a Heart", and the use of "Lives in the Balance" in the show Miami Vice, gained him many new fans who later went back and discovered Browne's earlier works.

Track listing

All songs by Jackson Browne, except where noted

#"For America" – 5:13
#"Soldier of Plenty" – 4:37
#"In the Shape of a Heart" – 5:41
#"Candy" (Browne, Greg Copeland, Wally Stocker) – 4:12
#"Lawless Avenues" (Browne, Jorge Calderón) – 5:40
#"Lives in the Balance" – 4:18
#"Till I Go Down" – 4:19
#"Black and White" – 5:15

Personnel

*Jackson Browne - acoustic guitar, guitar, piano, keyboard, vocals, harmony vocals, gut string guitar, vocoder
*Jorge Calderón - bass, vocals, harmony vocals, gut string guitar
*Phil Chen - bass
*Jennifer Condos - bass
*Quique Cruz - percussion, zampona
*Deborah Dobkin - vocals, harmony vocals, gut string guitar
*Craig Doerge - synthesizer, keyboard
*Kevin Dukes - guitar
*Bob Glaub - bass
*Doug Haywood - bass, vocals
*Jim Keltner - drums
*Phil Kenzie - alto saxophone
*Danny "Kootch" Kortchmar - guitar, percussion
*Russ Kunkel - drums
*Bernie Larsen - organ, guitar, clavinet
*David Lindley - guitar, violin, steel guitar
*Steve Lukather - guitar
*Stan Lynch - drums
*Kevin McCormick - guitar, vocals, harmony vocals, gut string guitar
*Ian McLagan - organ, keyboard
*Gary Myrick - guitar
*Bill Payne - synthesizer, piano, keyboard
*Hugo Pedroza - charango, tiple
*Bonnie Raitt - vocals, harmony vocals, gut string guitar
*Walfredo Reyes - conductor, conga, drums
*Mindy Sterling - vocals, gut string guitar, harmony
*Jorge Strunz - acoustic guitar, guitar, nylon string guitar
*Rick Vito - guitar, vocals
*Waddy Wachtel - guitar
*Ian Wallace - drums
*Jai Winding - organ, synthesizer, piano, keyboard

Production

*Producer: Jackson Browne
*Engineer: James Geddes
*Assistant engineers: Tchad Blake, Murray Dvorkin, Bill Jackson, Coke Johnson, Sharon Rice
*Mixing: Murray Dvorkin, James Geddes, Greg Ladanyi, Sharon Rice
*Mastering: Barry Diament, Doug Sax
*Sequencing: Jackson Browne, Danny "Kootch" Kortchmar
*Technical engineer: Ed Wong
*Art direction: Dawn Patrol, Jimmy Wachtel

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Singles - Billboard (North America)


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