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| Photo by Danny Clinch |
Carlsbad, Calif.
(December 20, 2017) –
The NAMM Foundation has announced that singer-songwriter
Jackson Browne will receive the prestigious Les Paul Innovation Award at the 33rd Annual
NAMM Technical Excellence & Creativity Awards
(NAMM TEC Awards), being held Saturday, January 27, 2018 in Anaheim, CA. The award is given
on behalf of the Les Paul Foundation to honor individuals that have set
the highest standards
of excellence in the creative application of recording technology in
the spirit of the famed audio pioneer, inventor and musician, Les Paul.
Browne
has written and performed some of the most iconic and moving songs in
popular music and has defined a genre of songwriting charged with
honesty, emotion, and personal politics.
He was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2004 and into
the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2007. His debut album came out on David
Geffen's Asylum Records in 1972. Since then, he has released fourteen
studio albums and four collections of live performances,
and has sold over 18 million albums in the U.S. Browne will be on tour
in the spring of 2018. Tour dates can be found
here.
“Jackson
Browne’s success as a singer, songwriter and guitarist has had a
prolific impression on the music industry throughout his successful
career,” said Michael Braunstein,
Executive Director of the Les Paul Foundation. “Like Les Paul, Jackson
has never shied away from expressing his emotions or thoughts through
his music. I have no doubt that Les would have liked to share a few jams
with Jackson along the way.”
Dubbed the “Knights of Soft Rock” by
Rolling Stone, The Section will also be honored during the evening event as the newest inductees to the NAMM TEC Hall of Fame.
Reaching their height in the 70s playing alongside the biggest names in
the business, including James Taylor,
Carole King, and Crosby, Stills and Nash, The Section also released
three of their own imprints and toured and recorded with Jackson Browne
in earlier years. While no longer recording collectively, each artist
now actively works in the studio and on tour and
consists of Danny Kortchmar (guitar), Craig Doerge (keyboards), Leland
Sklar (bass), and Russ Kunkel (drums). They’ll reunite on stage for a
rare performance of some of their best-known hits in support of the
evening’s celebration.
The
NAMM TEC Hall of Fame
award was started in 1988 to honor pioneers of audio technology, as
well as the music industry’s most accomplished producers and audio
technicians. In 2017, legendary Aerosmith engineer and producer
Jack Douglas was inducted into the NAMM TEC Hall of Fame, and joined luminaries
Skunk Baxter, Ed Cherney, Hal Blaine, Nathan East and others.
