The Naked Ride Home

"The Naked Ride Home" is the title track and leadoff song from Jackson Browne's 12th album. He recalled to Uncut magazine in an interview with their August 2010 issue: "How records get made is the most fascinating thing to me. I love 'The Naked Ride Home' as a recording. [band guitarist] Mark Goldenberg was playing structurally on the original session, and I was going to overdub him doing lead on top, but I wound up adding this great guitarist Val McCallum to the Band just to play that part. It's a deceiving song; it plays a trick on the listener because 'Just take off your clothes and I'll drive you home' sounds like a pick-up line. You don't find out until the end that these are married people. The assumption is there that it's about one thing when it's really about another. I love language so much in that way."