Shaky Town: San Francisco
10-4: I hear you over radio loud and clear
back door: person behind you watching for police from behind
put the hammer down: hit the gas, go faster than the limit
eighteen wheels: a big rig has 18 wheels
Although Jackson Browne is famous as a liberal pop-folk singer, he played countless country music bars, and he's comparing himself in his period of nomadic touring to the truckers he sang to. Musicians often have to depend on touring to survive, and some broke musicians had to hitch rides with truckers.
Shaky Town: San Francisco 10-4: I hear you over radio loud and clear back door: person behind you watching for police from behind put the hammer down: hit the gas, go faster than the limit eighteen wheels: a big rig has 18 wheels
Although Jackson Browne is famous as a liberal pop-folk singer, he played countless country music bars, and he's comparing himself in his period of nomadic touring to the truckers he sang to. Musicians often have to depend on touring to survive, and some broke musicians had to hitch rides with truckers.
@MarionDelgado Good theory; but ShakyTown was not written by Jackson Browne. The author is Danny Kortchmar.
@MarionDelgado Good theory; but ShakyTown was not written by Jackson Browne. The author is Danny Kortchmar.
@MarionDelgado Kortchmar sings harmony; they were a band on tour making "Running on Empty"; so it's not far from being written by Browne himself.
@MarionDelgado Kortchmar sings harmony; they were a band on tour making "Running on Empty"; so it's not far from being written by Browne himself.