Coming at a significant point in his life--the year before he and Carly Simon divorced--this bears both a poignant title and, with "Her Town Too," hit...
more >
Relatively upbeat stuff; includes "Mexico," a hit featuring David Crosby and Graham Nash. Miles away lyrically--and emotionally--from his earliest...
more >
Gorilla served notice to anyone expecting James Taylor to continue on in the personal, confessional vein of his first few albums that he did not intend to do so. Recording...
more >
Sounding a little slicker than some may have wanted him, Taylor's last Warner Brothers album included "Shower The People," a duet with Carly Simon. Aboard elsewhere: Art...
more >
James Taylor's seventh album and last new recording for Warner Bros. is notable for producing his biggest self-written hit in four years, "Shower the People" (number 22 pop,...
more >
On his last couple of Warner Brothers albums, Gorilla and In the Pocket, James Taylor seemed to be converting himself from the shrinking violet, too-sensitive-to-live "rainy...
more >
A fabulous work, and one guaranteed to shake anyone who thinks Taylor is the epitome of the wimpy singer-songwriter. As beautifully-constructed orchestral links play, Taylor...
more >
James Taylor was the first artist to be signed to record on the Beatles' short-lived vanity Apple label. In late 1968, Taylor's sophisticated self-titled disc foreshadowed...
more >
A fine live hits collection, this is also an invaluable document displaying how much of a true entertainer Taylor has become since his earliest days. Slick, but--and here's...
more >
"A live James Taylor album has been suggested, demanded and contemplated for many years," writes Taylor's manager/producer Peter Asher in this album's liner notes, and the...
more >
James Taylor's commercial breakthrough in 1970 was predicated on the relationship between the private concerns expressed in his songs and the larger philosophical mood of...
more >
While his aging contemporaries took a variety of tacks to keep up with changing fashions, from adopting more synthesized, percussive production styles to assembling an...
more >
James Taylor produced a typical collection of familiar-sounding songs on New Moon Shine, his concerns ranging from romance to the life of the working man to political issues...
more >
Anyone doubting James Taylor's early-'70s status as the king of sensitive male vocalists need only check out the female singers popping up here: Carole King, Carly Simon...
more >
A lot was riding on this album, James Taylor's followup to his two big hits, Sweet Baby James and Mud Slide Slim and The Blue Horizon, which was released 21 months after the...
more >
The album by which most people were introduced to James Taylor, this is a warm, inviting effort that still has a fair share of haunting, dark songs--most obviously on the...
more >
Warner Brothers combined two of James Taylor's best albums, Sweet Baby James and Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon, on one cassette in the early '80s. The heart of James...
more >
James Taylor took four and a half years off from record-making in the early 1980s, returning with That's Why I'm Here, which suggested he had found his long-term niche with...
more >
One Man Dog drastically lowered expectations for a new James Taylor album, and those expectations were almost met by Walking Man, a more considered effort than its...
more >
Sony repackaged and re-released three of James Taylor's best albums from the late '70s -- JT, Flag and Dad Loves His Work -- as a slip-cased box set. It's not a bad way to...
more >
James Taylor's Live at the Beacon Theatre captures the quintessential singer/songwriter in a lively, intimate 1998 performance at New York's Beacon Theatre in support of his...
more >
James Taylor's first Greatest Hits album, released in 1976 and consisting of his well-known early '70s recordings on Warner Bros. and re-recordings of some of the songs from...
more >
Fascinating stuff--particularly when it emerged, bearing early rock versions of many of the "sensitive" tunes would later unveil on his first few album. A relic, and maybe...
more >
Original Flying Machine 1967 is comprised of recordings James Taylor with his band the Flying Machine made a year before he signed to Apple Records. At this stage, Taylor...
more >
James Taylor's 15th studio album of his first new recordings in 32 years is, if possible, even more familiar and self-referential than ever. By now, it is an article of...
more >
To compile a comprehensive one-disc best-of James Taylor album is a daunting task in and of itself. To compile it from material from three labels is a gutsy thing for David...
more >
James Taylor's 15th studio album -- his first new recordings in 32 years -- is, if possible, even more familiar and self-referential than ever. By now, it is an article of...
more >
James Taylor had scored eight Top 40 hits by the fall of 1976 when Warner Brothers marked the end of his contract with this compilation. One of those hits, the Top Ten gold...
more >
