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October 2, 2008

James Taylor's Country Soul

Inside the intimate sessions for the singer's new covers album
April 22, 2005

The Immortals - The Greatest Artists of All Time: 84) James Taylor

By Art Garfunkel
September 13, 2002

Q&A: October Surprise

James Taylor is back on the top of the charts
July 8, 1998

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Recordings and Reviews

Gorilla

James Taylor pretty much wrote the book for the singer/songwriters of the Seventies. That may be a dubious distinction but Taylor's early work, characterized by subdued singing and restrained, clean backings, was also marked by an undercurrent of extreme agitation and angst. It was this sense of pow...

2009 RS: Not Rated

Covers

2008

One Man Band

2007

Mud Slide Slim & The Blue Horizon

2007

One Man Dog

2006

October Road

2002

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Biography

James Taylor was the archetypal "sensitive" singer/songwriter of the '70s. His songs, especially his early ones, were tales of inner torment delivered in low-key tunes featuring Taylor's understated tenor and his intricate acoustic guitar accompaniments that drew on folk and jazz. Taylor came across as relaxed, personable, and open; he was imitated by a horde of would-be confessionalists, although...

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