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Jackson Browne - The Nina Demo (1967)

Track listing:
CD1
  1. Holding 2:43
  2. Somewhere There's A Feather 2:11
  3. I've Been Out Walking 2:36
  4. Funny You Should Ask 2:22
  5. Love Me, Lovely 2:46
  6. You've Forgotten 2:50
  7. Someday Morning 3:37
  8. Cast Off All My Fears 2:31
  9. In My Time 2:23
  10. Melissa 2:27
  11. It's Been Raining Here In Long Beach 1:46
  12. You'll Get It In The Mail Today 2:15
  13. Shadow Dream Song 3:27
  14. The Light From Your Smile 2:58
  15. Gotta See A Man About A Daydream 6:04
CD2
  1. Time Travel Fantasy 2:49
  2. The Fairest Of The Seasons 3:51
  3. Sing My Songs To Me 3:53
  4. Lavender Windows 2:47
  5. The Painter 2:19
  6. Fourth And Main 2:30
  7. Bound For Colorado 2:32
  8. We Can Be 1:46
  9. And I See 2:52
  10. Ah, But Sometimes 2:29
  11. Marianne 2:44
  12. Tumble Down 1:35
  13. You Didn't Need A Cloud 2:33
  14. Lavender Bassman 1:58
  15. She's A Flying Thing 2:40

Notes

"The Nina Demo"
Unreleased demo recording from 1967

In February 1967, Jackson Browne stepped into the studio to make some demos of his songs for Nina Music. The idea was to showcase Jackson's songs to various artists on the Elektra roster. For some reason, Nina Music pressed thirty of Jackson's songs -- along with ten of Steven Noonan's songs -- onto two LPs. (Actually only about 2/3 of the songs were from the 1967 recording session at Jaycino Studio in New York. The rest were from a Columbia session from the prior year.)

The "Nina Demo" has become somewhat legendary and infamous among Jackson's fans as his first "unreleased" album, but it never was intended to be an album release (much less an album); it was merely Jackson Browne and his guitar making some 2-track tapes in his role as a staff writer for Nina Music.