"I made three albums since my last studio album," Browne -- who releases "Time the Conqueror" September 23 on his own Inside Recordings label -- told Billboard.com, referring to a pair of "Acoustic Live" sets and a collaboration with R&B group Fred Martin & the Levite Camp on 2006's "Some Bridges."
"For me it's pretty steady, continuous work. And I'm kind of playing continuously, even though it's not necessarily a national tour or a publicity campaign. I'm just playing all the time."
Nevertheless, Browne acknowledged, "I missed my band a lot ... and getting to make an album where you're rehearsed and you have production and you're ready to play these songs is a real pleasure for me."
Browne has been making "Time the Conqueror" for about three years. He road-tested some of the 10 songs, including the title track and "Just Say Yeah," during his acoustic tour, and others were inspired by sound-check jams. Browne started writing "The Drums of War," one of several politically minded tracks on the album, during the early months of the Iraq invasion.
"Time the Conqueror" is Browne's first full-fledged studio album on Inside after 30-plus years with Elektra and Asylum, a partnership that wrapped with 2002's "The Naked Ride Home" and the 2004 compilation "The Very Best of Jackson Browne."
"I'm not sure what it would be like to be the other way anymore because of the way in which the music business has changed and sort of been denigrated," he said. "I think it's perfectly good for music that the record companies are sort of in decline and the ones that are doing the more interesting things are small independent labels that are run by music lovers, people who really do it for passionate, personal, musically ideological reasons."
Browne begins his tour to promote "Time the Conqueror" on September 15 in Washington, D.C., continuing into 2009 with concert dates around the world. At the same time, he'll be monitoring his lawsuit against Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, for using Browne's "Running on Empty" without authorization in campaign ads.
"It's pretty open and shut," Browne said. "They can't use your music without your permission, and it's pretty hard to imagine a senator or anybody in a political campaign not knowing that. The law is so well pronounced. They use your song without asking and you have to make them pay for it. But I'm not sure if it'll be resolved soon or quickly."
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