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Fire and Rain

James Taylor

Posted Dec 09, 2004 12:00 AM

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Written by: Taylor
Produced by: Peter Asher
Released: Feb. '70 on Warner Bros.
Charts: 16 weeks
Top spot: No. 3

Taylor wrote this song in three phases: in a London flat while he was signed to the Apple label; in a New York hospital as he kicked heroin; and during a stay in a Massachusetts psychiatric facility. "It's like three samplings of what I went through," he said.

Appears on: Sweet Baby James (Warner Bros.)

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