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Sweet Baby James (Import) (CD)

By: James Taylor (Popular)

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Track Listing

DISC 1 for Sweet Baby James (Import) (CD) Album By James Taylor (Popular)
1   Sweet Baby James  
2   Lo And Behold  
3   Sunny Skies  
4   Steam Roller  
5   Country Roads  
6   Oh Susannah  
7   Fire And Rain  
8   Blossom  
9   Anywhere Like Heaven  
10   Oh Baby Don't You Loose Your Lip On Me  
11   Suite For 20G  
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (12/11/03, p.120) - Ranked #103 in Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums Of All Time" - "[A] model of folk-pop healing music."

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Personnel: James Taylor (vocals, acoustic guitar); Danny Kootch (guitar); Red Rhodes (steel guitar); Chris Darrow (fiddle); Carole King (piano); Randy Meisner, Bobby West, John London (bass); Russ Kunkel (drums).

Recorded at Sunset Sound, Los Angeles, California in December 1969.
Taylor had already `seen and been' enough by the time this album was released, having survived drug addiction and mental institutions by the age of 19, not to mention broken relationships. There was much for the listener to relate to during those heady days and this album made him a star, a status from which he tried to recoil. Two tracks from this album have been performed at every Taylor gig for 25 years - the irritating but necessary `Steamroller' and his greatest song, `Fire And Rain', which tells the story of his first 20 years in just over three minutes.

Album Description

Though James Taylor's self-titled debut introduced his mellow melodicism and affecting songcraft, SWEET BABY JAMES was the album that rocketed him to national recognition. With SWEET BABY JAMES, Taylor abandoned the slightly psychedelic structural ambition of his first record (the first side was composed as a suite), and settled fully into the folk and country styles to which he is best suited. The top ten hit "Fire and Rain", for instance, a deeply personal story-song based on the artist's experiences in mental hospitals and the suicide of a friend, is built around Taylor's gentle, understated voice, acoustic guitar, cello, piano, and drums.
The plaintive, melancholic air of "Fire and Rain" resonated with millions of listeners, as did the rest of the album. Taylor's lyrics, which address personal identity, religion, and relationships lost and struggling, are highly confessional, yet associative and lyrical enough to reflect the lives of listeners. At times, he marries the plight of the sensitive soul to the myth of the cowboy in songs like the title track, a kind of campfire lullaby, or to country traditions, as in "Country Road". In all, these elements combine to make SWEET BABY JAMES, arguably, Taylor's definitive statement, and one of the most influential albums in the singer-songwriter genre.

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