Taylor, James Flag CD ** NEW **

Also available in a 3-pack with JT and DAD LOVES HIS WORK.Personnel includes: James Taylor (vocals, guitar); Danny Kortchmar (electric guitar); Don Grolnick (electric piano, organ); Leland Sklar (bass); Russell Kunkel (drums, percussion).Recorded at The Sound Factory, Los Angeles, California.All tracks have been digitally remastered.Audio Mixer: Val Garay.Recording information: Atlantic Studio-A, NYC (01/04/1979-03/25/1979); The Sound Factory, L.A. (01/04/1979-03/25/1979).Photographer: Mark Hanauer.FLAG is a compendium of James Taylor's various styles. As always, melodic hooks, catchy phrases and precise musical turns abound. On "Company Man" Taylor takes another look at his uneasy relationship with fame and the music business. "Johnnie Comes Back" is a dark little rocker about some particularly nasty goings on. While he was in the rock neighborhood J.T. even manages to prance and preen a little in his danceable raveup of the Beatles' "Day Tripper." "Rainy Day Man" is revisited from his first record and the c

CLASSIC SONGS is a remastered 16 song collection featuring folk artist James Taylor, featuring "Fire And Rain, " "Mexico, " "You've Got A Friend, " and "Shower The People."Personnel: James Taylor (vocals, guitar).For a long time, Classic Songs was the only compilation to feature the original versions of all of James Taylor's classics from his debut up through 1985's That's Why I'm Here. Unfortunately, it was only available in Europe, yet it long remained the best, most comprehensive collection of his work. ~ Chris Woodstra

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Also available in a 3-pack with JT and DAD LOVES HIS WORK.Personnel includes: James Taylor (vocals, guitar); Danny Kortchmar (electric guitar); Don Grolnick (electric piano, organ); Leland Sklar (bass); Russell Kunkel (drums, percussion).Recorded at The Sound Factory, Los Angeles, California.All tracks have been digitally remastered.FLAG is a compendium of James Taylor's various styles. As always, melodic hooks, catchy phrases and precise musical turns abound. On "Company Man" Taylor takes another look at his uneasy relationship with fame and the music business. "Johnnie Comes Back" is a dark little rocker about some particularly nasty goings on. While he was in the rock neighborhood J.T. even manages to prance and preen a little in his danceable raveup of the Beatles' "Day Tripper." "Rainy Day Man" is revisited from his first record and the classic Goffin-King "Up On The Roof" is covered with a new vigor as James makes it completely his own. Especially moving is the sad and beautiful "Millworker, " written fo

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With ONE MAN BAND, James Taylor becomes the third major musical icon, after Paul McCartney and Joni Mitchell, to sign with the Starbucks-affiliated music label Hear Music for a new releases. Unlike Mitchell and McCartney, Taylor is using his fresh start to take a well-deserved retrospective look over the course of his career. ONE MAN BAND is a two-disc set incorporating a live concert and a documentary DVD. The DVD is an exhaustive work directed by filmmaker Sydney Pollack that mixes new live concert material and interviews with rare archival footage, including both vintage television appearances and, appropriately for a documentary about an artist who has treated his musical career as a lifelong running autobiography, home movies and personal photographs. True to the album's title, the live concert on the CD features just Taylor's warm, mellow voice and his soulful, folk-influenced acoustic guitar. Recorded live in front of a hometown crowd in the hills of western Massachusetts, these 19 songs stretch back o

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Personnel: James Taylor (vocals, guitar); Michael Landau (guitar); Don Grolnick (piano); Clifford Carter (keyboards); Jimmy Johnson (bass); Carlos Vega (drums); Valerie Carter, David Lasley, Kate Markowitz, Arnold McCuller (background vocals).Engineers: Nathaniel Kunkel, John Godenzi, Randy Hutson.Recorded live in the fall of 1992.Personnel: James Taylor (vocals, guitar); David Lasley, Arnold McCutler, Kate Markowitz, Arnold McCuller, Valerie Carter (vocals); Michael Landau (guitar); Don Grolnick (piano); Clifford Carter, Cliff Carter (keyboards); Carlos Vega (drums).Audio Mixer: George Massenburg.Liner Note Author: Peter Asher.Photographer: Andrew Brucker.Although he is a seasoned and well-loved live performer, James Taylor had never made a live record before 1993, when he released this two-CD set. Culled from a series of 14 concerts, these 30 songs capture the genial Taylor digging into an impressively rich bag of songs, with crowd-pleasing results. It's an extremely faithful recording--no overdubs--and the

Iris/MRI ( September 06, 2005 ), Genre: Folk