Jackson Browne Debuts Protest Song On Wall Street

Rolling Stone Magazine reports that Browne turned up to support protesters in Manhattan and while he was there he played a short acoustic set where he debuted a brand new protest song.

"It's really hard to write a song about issues," Browne tells Rolling Stone. (Watch our interview with Browne below.) "On the other hand, a movement like this doesn't need every song to be a movement song. Somebody asked me the name of that song, and I thought, well, I'm actually not sure what the title is. Maybe 'Which Side Are You On?' That's, of course, the title of an old Civil Rights marching song that I grew up singing when I was 16, 17 years old."

"For me, being 26 years old, growing up, there's always been a negative connotation with the term 'protest,'" says Dawes frontman Taylor Goldsmith, who performed a few of his band's originals alongside Browne at the rally. "Now, for the first time, there's a pride that goes along with it."

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