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Jackson Browne: "If I Could Be Anywhere"

Filmed Nov 2010 • Posted Apr 2011TEDxGreatPacificGarbagePatch
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Jackson Browne plays a song he started writing last April aboard Mission Blue Voyage, the Sylvia Earle-inspired trip to brainstorm ways to save the ocean. "If I could be anywhere," he sings, "anywhere right now, I would be here." (Filmed at TEDxGPGP.)

Jackson Browne has written and performed some of the most literate and moving songs in popular music -- and has defined a genre of songwriting charged with honesty, emotion and personal politics. Full bio »

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