Grateful Dead Family Discography: The Load-Out

The Load-Out

Composer: Jackson Browne

Bruce Hornsby possibly played on The Load-Out with The Sensitive Ones in September 1999. The Sensitive Ones were a group, put together for one short tour, that included Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, Shawn Colvin, Bruce Hornsby, David Lindley & Wally Ingram.

The song was first released on the Jackson Browne live album Running On Empty and on a single at the end of 1977. In live performances at that time The Load-Out segued into the Maurice Williams song Stay and these two songs occur together on the Running On Empty LP and are side A and Side B of the single. The combination of The Load-Out and Stay reached #20 in the Billboard Hot 100.

Jackson Browne

no info Running On Empty, Jackson Browne, 1977
no info Single (Stay / The Load Up), Jackson Browne, 1977
no info Single (Running On Empty / The Pretender), Jackson Browne, 1978
no info Jackson Browne/Running On Empty, Jackson Browne, 1983
no info The Very Best Of Jackson Browne, 2004

Other recordings

no info The Music Of Jackson Browne, Spectrum, 1995