James Taylor featured on the Seventies blog by my mate GK recently. he wrote about his admiration for
Shower The People.
JT is certainly a seventies titan but he also produced some excellent work outside of that decade.
Here's my top five JT songs that
weren't recorded in the seventies:
1
Something in the way she moves
2
Carolina in my mind
Both come from 1968's debut album called
James Taylor. I own it because it came out on the Beatle's Apple label. The whole album is kinda strange with those two solid gold standouts surrounded by a couple of other excellent tunes (
Rainy Day Man and
Night Owl are two), some lesser songs and orchestral interludes. Both were recorded by James for inclusion on his first
Greatest Hits package but I prefer these versions.
Carolina even has two Beatles playing on it (Paul playing bass and George).
3
Copperline (1991). The sap rises and the angels sigh!
4
Sun on the moon (from 1988's
Never Die Young) is funky (yes JT can be funky!) with great drumming by Carlos Vega
5
That's why I'm here (1985). I love self referential material. The line about singing
Fire and Rain again and again and again gets me every time.
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