Jackson Browne - "These Days" (Clea Anais Cover)

"These Days" feels so relevant during these strange Covid times... it's easy to get caught up reflecting on the past. Do you feel the same?

Jackson Browne, who wrote the song at 16, played guitar on the version that Nico released in 1970. That was three years before he recorded a version of it himself.

Browne recounted on KGSR Radio Austin that he'd forgotten that he'd licensed the film The Royal Tenebaums to use the song. He explained: "This is one of those things that comes to you in the mail and you don't know what they're talking about and you simply give them their permission. You're sitting in the movie theater and there's this great moment when Gwyneth Paltrow is coming out of a bus or something like that. I'm thinking to myself, I used to play the guitar just like that. And then the voice comes on and it's Nico singing 'These Days,' which I played on."

Thank you to Jackson Browne and also Nico who inspired.

Gorgeous guitar stylings by Jarret Mayo @bobarret

and outfit and makeup by the amazing Janelle Watling @magicboom