‘Running On Empty’ – Jackson Browne
Browne’s grand experiment, Running on Empty, was a collection of all-new songs recorded up on the stage, in hotels, as well as on the tour bus. Browne wrote the title track while driving to the studio every day to work on The Pretender. He admitted, “I was always driving around with no gas in the car.” “I simply never bothered to fill up the tank because, after all, how far was it? It’s only a few blocks away.”
‘Brown Sugar’ – The Rolling Stones
Slavery, sadomasochism, and interracial sex are all topics tackled by the Stones, and they do so in a catchy way. Jagger scribbled three verses on a pad at Muscle Shoals Studios, and Richards provided an impossibly raunchy riff. With a few exultant punctuations, you’ve got yourself a Stones concert classic.