This is the age of California '70s reunions. While James Taylor and Carole King are remembering their Troubadour youth with an album and tour, fellow SoCal songwriter Jackson Browne has reunited with psychedelic lap steel and string virtuoso David Lindley. "Love Is Strange" is a document of a brief 2006 Spanish tour in which the two West Coast musicians were joined by a handful of Spanish ones. The results are far from a standard greatest hits sleepwalk or another anemic unplugged set. Browne's songbook is completely reinvented by these Spaniards who bridge the gap between folk and flamenco. And Lindley sidewinds his way through the melodies with his usual musical telepathy. "Love Is Strange" is a lesson in the permanence of good songs — and the beauty of trans-Atlantic musical collaborations.

WATCH Jackson Browne and David Lindley performing the classic "Take It Easy."

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