Steve Martin and Alison Brown created their star-studded new bluegrass album, Safe, Sensible and Sane – released Friday (Oct.

Perhaps as a way of combating his image as the king of the sensitive singer/songwriters, Jackson Browne changed things up with Running on Empty in 1977. He recorded the newly written songs for the ...

Browne wrote “These Days” at 16. Now 75, he and some famous admirers reflect on his unexpected mainstay: “If a song is worth anything, it’s about the life of the listener.” By Bob Mehr Reporting from ...