The Load - Out - wikipedia The Load - Out `` The Load - Out '' Side - B label of the 1978 commercial single, `` Stay '' Song by Jackson Browne from the album Running on Empty A-side `` Stay '' Released December 1977 Format 7 `` ; 12 '' promotional single Recorded Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, Maryland August 27, 1977 Length 5 : 38 album version, 8 : 51 DJ promo version in medley with `` Stay '' Label Asylum / Elektra Songwriter ( s ) Jackson Browne Bryan Garofalo Producer ( s ) Jackson Browne Running on Empty track listing `` Nothing but Time '' ( 8 ) `` The Load - Out '' ( 9 ) `` Stay '' ( 10 ) `` The Load - Out '' is a song co-written and performed live by Jackson Browne from his 1977 album Running on Empty. It is a tribute to his roadies and fans. The song was recorded live at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland on August 27, 1977, as part of the tour in support of the album The Pretender. Contents 1 History 2 Reaction 3 Chart positions 4 Notes History `` The Load - Out '' describes the daily practices of a band and its road crew on a concert tour, and the emotions evoked throughout such an endeavor. The first three verses of the song consist of Browne singing and playing piano with David Lindley playing steel guitar. They are later joined by a synthesizer, followed by the rest of the band. Eventually `` The Load - Out '' segues into an interpretation of Maurice Williams ' 1960 hit `` Stay, '' sung by Browne, Rosemary Butler, and Lindley. It is Lindley who sings the falsetto. Many radio stations played `` The Load - Out '' and `` Stay '' together as a medley, and, although it was n't released as a single to the public initially ( `` Rosie '' was the original B - side to `` Stay '' ), `` The Load - Out '' charted as a tag - along to `` Stay '' on the Billboard Hot 100 singles charts, based on airplay. `` Stay '' debuted on the Hot 100 on June 10, 1978 as a sole A-side, but was listed along with `` The Load - Out '' on the chart beginning with the August 5, 1978 chart for eight weeks, both showing a peak at # 20. `` Stay '' stayed on the Hot 100 for a total of fifteen weeks. Reaction In his March 9, 1978, Rolling Stone review of the Running on Empty album, Paul Nelson discussed the song in the context of the album 's `` consciously created documentary, '' and reviewed the song 's significance placed as its finale. The `` Load - Out / Stay '' medley, he claimed, was `` worthy of such earlier '' Browne album - closing `` anthems as ' For Everyman, ' ' Before the Deluge ' and ' The Pretender. ' ' The Load - Out ' is Jackson Browne 's tribute to and summation of every aspect of live performance : the cheering audience out front, the band playing hard - nosed rock & roll, the backstage crew loading up the trucks -- and, always, the road to the next town. Packed to capacity with the data of first - rate reporting and with music so warm and soaring it belies the album 's title, this song flows triumphantly into ' Stay, ' where Browne tells us he does n't ever want it to end. '' In an essay for the 2005 Rhino Records reissue of the album, critic Anthony DeCurtis wrote that one of the major themes of the album is how `` the joy of performing before an audience lends a purpose to everything that happens - the good and the bad - behind the scene. '' That theme, he wrote, is expressed `` eloquently in the easy rolling transition from the wistful regret of `` The Load - Out '' to the smile - inducing high jinks of `` Stay. '' In 1981, Austrian singer - songwriter Georg Danzer recorded a German cover version of this song titled Roadie - Lied. The final episode of the 2016 television series Roadies was named after the song, and featured a live performance of it by Browne. Chart positions Chart ( 1978 ) Peak position U.S. Billboard Hot 100 20 Notes Jump up ^ `` The Load - Out / Stay '' BBC Live in London, 1978. ( with subtitles ) on YouTube. Retrieved July 9, 2012. Jump up ^ Paris, Russ. Jackson Browne Fan Page Discography Accessed July 9, 2012. Jump up ^ Top 40 Music On CD.com Accessed July 9, 2012. Jump up ^ Jackson Browne Chart History. Billboard Jump up ^ Whitburn, Joel. Billboard Hot 100 Charts - The Seventies. Wisconsin : Record Research, 1990. Jump up ^ Nelson, Paul. Running on Empty Rolling Stone, March 9, 1978. Accessed July 9, 2012. Jump up ^ DeCurtis, Anthony. `` Making the Road His Own : Jackson Browne 's Running On Empty '' Running on Empty Elektra / Rhino remastered edition, 2005. Jackson Browne Studio albums Jackson Browne For Everyman Late for the Sky The Pretender Hold Out Lawyers in Love Lives in the Balance World in Motion I 'm Alive Looking East The Naked Ride Home Time the Conqueror Standing in the Breach Live albums Running on Empty Solo Acoustic, Vol. 1 Solo Acoustic, Vol. 2 Love Is Strange : En Vivo Con Tino Compilations The Next Voice You Hear : The Best of Jackson Browne The Very Best of Jackson Browne Singles `` Doctor My Eyes '' `` Rock Me on the Water '' `` Redneck Friend '' `` Take It Easy '' `` Walking Slow '' `` Fountain of Sorrow '' `` Here Come Those Tears Again '' `` The Pretender '' `` Running on Empty '' `` The Load - Out / Stay '' `` You Love the Thunder `` Boulevard '' `` That Girl Could Sing '' `` Hold On Hold Out '' `` Somebody 's Baby '' `` Lawyers in Love '' `` Tender Is the Night '' `` For a Rocker '' `` You 're a Friend of Mine '' `` For America '' `` In the Shape of a Heart '' `` Lives in the Balance '' `` I 'm Alive '' Related articles Discography Groove Masters Studios `` Song for Adam '' `` The Birds of St. Marks '' `` Jamaica Say You Will '' `` These Days '' `` For Everyman '' Looking Into You : A Tribute to Jackson Browne Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Load-Out&oldid=817942820 '' Categories : 1977 songs Jackson Browne songs Live singles Songs written by Jackson Browne Songs about touring Hidden categories : Music infoboxes with deprecated parameters Articles with hAudio microformats Talk Contents About Wikipedia Nederlands Edit links This page was last edited on 31 December 2017, at 13 : 51. 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Question: who sings with jackson browne on the song stay
Answer: David Lindley