Downhill from Everywhere

Downhill from Everywhere is the fifteenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Jackson Browne. It was released by Inside Recordings on July 23, 2021, and is Browne's first album of new material in seven years. It was nominated for a 2022 Grammy Award in the Best Americana Album category.^[12]

Downhill from Everywhere
Studio album by Jackson Browne
Released	July 23, 2021 (2021-07-23)
Studio	Groove Masters (Santa Monica, California)
Genre	Rock
Length	50:04
Label	Inside
Producer	Jackson Browne
Jackson Browne chronology
The Road East – Live in Japan (2017) Downhill from Everywhere (2021)

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	76/100[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
American Songwriter	[3]
Classic Rock	[4]
The Guardian	[5]
The Independent	[6]
Mojo	[7]
PopMatters	8/10[8]
Record Collector	[9]
Uncut	7/10[10]
Under the Radar	6/10[11]

Track listing

All songs are written by Jackson Browne, with co-writers listed below.

Downhill from Everywhere track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Still Looking for Something"		3:10
2.	"My Cleveland Heart"	Val McCallum	3:20
3.	"Minutes to Downtown"		5:31
4.	"A Human Touch"	Steve McEwan Leslie Mendelson	4:42
5.	"Love Is Love"	David Belle	4:46
6.	"Downhill from Everywhere"	Greg Leisz Jeff Young	5:44
7.	"The Dreamer"	Eugene Rodriguez David Hidalgo	3:16
8.	"Until Justice Is Real"		4:33
9.	"A Little Soon to Say"		6:25
10.	"A Song for Barcelona"	Mauricio Lewak Bob Glaub Young Leisz McCallum	8:37
Total length:			50:10

Personnel

• Jackson Browne – vocals, acoustic piano (1, 4), electric guitar (3, 5, 6, 9), vihuela (7), acoustic guitar (8), nylon guitar (10)
• Jeff Young – vocals (2, 6), Hammond organ (3, 5, 6, 9), acoustic piano (6, 10)
• Jason Crosby – acoustic piano (3)
• Patrick Warren – keyboards (4)
• Greg Leisz – electric guitar (1, 3, 5, 6, 9, 10), lap steel guitar (2, 4, 8), acoustic guitar (3, 7), pedal steel guitar (4)
• Val McCallum – acoustic guitar (1, 2), electric guitar (1, 2, 6-10), tenor guitar (1), vocals (2), acoustic tenor guitar (5)
• Mark Goldenberg – electric guitar (3)
• Waddy Wachtel – electric guitar (8)
• Bob Glaub – bass (1, 3, 5-10)
• Davey Faragher – bass (2)
• Jennifer Condos – bass (4)
• Mauricio Lewak – drums (1, 5-10)
• Pete Thomas – drums (2)
• Russ Kunkel – drums (3)
• Jay Bellerose – drums (4)
• Raúl Rodríguez Quínones – handclaps (10)
• Aletha Mills – vocals (3, 5-10)
• Chavonne Stewart – vocals (3, 5-10)
• Leslie Mendelson – vocals (4)
• De'Ante Duckett – vocals (10)

Production

• Jackson Browne – producer
• Kevin Smith – recording (1, 5, 7, 8, 10), mixing (1-3, 5-10)
• Paul Dieter – recording (2, 6, 9)
• Nate Kunkel – recording (3)
• Ryan Freeland – recording (4), mixing (4)
• Jeremy Hatcher, Ehud Kaldes, Garry Purohit and Mirza Sheriff – recording assistants
• Joaquin Bear, Peter Gjerset and Owen Lantz – studio assistants
• Gavin Lurssen and Rueben Cohen – mastering at Lurssen Mastering, (Burbank, California)
• Jeff Powell – vinyl mastering at Take Out Vinyl (Memphis, Tennessee)
• Dustin Stanton – design
• Edward Burtynsky – cover photography
• Nels Israelson – inside photography

Charts

Chart performance for Downhill from Everywhere

Chart (2021)	Peak position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[13]	44
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[14]	46
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[15]	24
Japanese Albums (Oricon)[16]	42
Scottish Albums (OCC)[17]	4
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[18]	73
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[19]	13
UK Albums (OCC)[20]	35
UK Independent Albums (OCC)[21]	1
US Billboard 200[22]	86