In episode four I talk about the Jackson Browne album The Pretender with musicians Kyle Cox and Dana Cox, who are also my cousin and my dad respectively. The Pretender is Kyle’s favorite Jackson Browne album, and that record was my dad’s intro to Jackson’s music when it came out. For that reason, I knew going in that I wanted to talk to my family about this one. After a brief intro and a look at the original 1976 Rolling Stone review by Dave Marsh, our conversation starts around the 7:00 mark. 

Kyle is the singer for the band Kanan Road, who you can check out at kananroadband.com. You can hear Dana Cox at danacox.bandcamp.com.

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Also, I made a bracket of Jackson Browne songs so you can put yourself through hell trying to decide on a favorite.

Note: In this episode, we avoid discussing how Jackson Browne’s wife’s suicide might have played into the album. Without concrete knowledge, it wasn’t something we wanted to loosely speculate on in casual conversation.