I Wasn’t Ready for Her
A Jackson Browne college story
“The postscript to this sad story was that within three weeks she had moved in with Jackson Browne, who lived down the street, and three months later she was pregnant. They had a boy named Ethan and got married in late 1975. In March of 1976, Phyllis committed suicide with a massive overdose of sleeping pills while Jackson was on tour” (Jonathan Taplin, The Magic Years…