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Lockdown Lick 258

Lockdown Lick

Lockdown Licks no.258. “Running on Empty” by Jackson Browne.

Slide solo in style of original. Played on an HB35+ guitar in standard tuning using a Dunlop glass slide, into a NUX M8 amp set to ‘superlead’ with a touch of reverb. Original played by David Lindley on a ‘lap steel‘ guitar.

Running on Empty” is a song by American singer-songwriter Jackson Browne. It is the title track of his 1977 live album of the same name, recorded at a concert at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland, on August 27, 1977. A number 11 hit on the US Billboard Hot 100 when it was released as a single, it spent seventeen weeks on the chart after debuting on February 11, 1978 at position 72. Rolling Stone ranked it at number 496 on its list of “The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time” in 2010 and number 492 in 2004 and it is one of Browne’s signature songs.