James Taylor - The Best of James Taylor
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Artist: James TaylorEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2003-04-08
Music Label: Rhino / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Something In The Way She Moves
- Sweet Baby James
- Fire And Rain
- Country Road
- You've Got A Friend
- You Can Close Your Eyes
- Long Ago And Far Away
- Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight
- Walking Man
- How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)
- Mexico
- Shower The People
- Golden Moments
- Steamroller (Live)
- Carolina In My Mind
- Handy Man
- Your Smiling Face
- Up On The Roof
- Only A Dream In Rio
- Bitter Sweet (Previously Unreleased)
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Music Review: What were you doing when you first heard his songs?
Rating: 5 Stars
They were my parents albums and my girlfriends and I would put them on when we got home from school. It was always sunny out--this was Southern California, the years of endless draught. We'd take off our flip flops and sing along word for word. My parents had these wooden sticks that you'd clack together to make "music." We used them for microphones, belting it out as loudly as we could.
Sometimes we'd do homework, our books spread about the floor in front of the fireplace. We'd sing quietly, working on math, then belt it out again at the chorus. When my parents came home, they'd come in the living room and my mother would sing harmony. My dad couldn't sing. But he'd take our "microphones" away and clack them together keeping the beat and bouncing his head like a bobble-head toy.
These songs make me feel all that again. The security of people you love, the warmth of friendship. The joy of singing as loudly as you can.
Description of The Best of James Taylor
20 of his greatest singles and most popular album tracks released on Apple, Warner Bros. and Columbia/Sony. Slipcase. 2003.Any good singer can interpret a song, but it takes a stylist to make it his own. James Taylor is a stylist. This 20-track anthology obviously can't chronicle much more than the hits and high points of Taylor's career, but it nonetheless captures the artistic essence of a performer who's become a virtual synonym for "singer-songwriter" since his emergence in the late '60s. A lot of ink has been spilled ruminating about Taylor's role in soothing a '60s-burned generation, but given his own well-known demons (depression, addiction) his gentle voice often sounds like the physician wisely healing himself. His muse seems fully formed from the opening "Something in the Way She Moves," a track cut for the Beatles' Apple label in late '68 (and one that seems to share some symbiotic relationship with George Harrison's own classic "Something" from the period), its tone at once familiar and inviting--if ripe for a few decades of parody--as it wends its way from his seminal early '70s hits through a slate of later originals, R&B ("How Sweet It Is," "Handy Man") and pop ("Up On the Roof") covers. Tellingly, he delivers those chestnuts with an offhand confidence and illumination that makes them his own, a sense that informs even his jazz and Brazilian ("Only a Dream a Rio") flirtations. The set's newly recorded bonus cut, John Sheldon's "Bittersweet," is a pleasant pop confection that showcases Taylor's knack for being laconic and upbeat in the same breath. --Jerry McCulley
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