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The Best of James Taylor
James Taylor
Label: Rhino / Wea
Number of Discs: 1
Format: Audio CD
Release date:8th April 2003
| Studio Audio CD |
 $4.39 |
Track Listing
- 1. Something In The Way She Moves Lyrics
- 2. Sweet Baby James Lyrics
- 3. Fire And Rain Lyrics
- 4. Country Road Lyrics
- 5. You've Got A Friend Lyrics
- 6. You Can Close Your Eyes Lyrics
- 7. Long Ago And Far Away Lyrics
- 8. Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight Lyrics
- 9. Walking Man
- 10. How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) Lyrics
- 11. Mexico Lyrics
- 12. Shower The People
- 13. Golden Moments
- 14. Steamroller (Live) Lyrics
- 15. Carolina In My Mind Lyrics
- 16. Handy Man Lyrics
- 17. Your Smiling Face Lyrics
- 18. Up On The Roof Lyrics
- 19. Only A Dream In Rio
- 20. Bitter Sweet (Previously Unreleased)
Album Description
20 of his greatest singles and most popular album tracks released on Apple, Warner Bros. and Columbia/Sony. Slipcase. 2003.
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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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