FIRE AND RAIN The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSNY, and the Lost Story of 1970 By David Browne Illustrated. 369 pages. Da Capo Press. $26. The Beatles broke up, the Weathermen accidentally torched a Greenwich Village brownstone, and pop music went really soft. (Except when it didn't.) That's the tale, in a nutshell, told by ''Fire and...
James Taylor may be the foremost contemporary composer of what you might call American lullabies. ''Carolina in My Mind,'' ''Sweet Baby James,'' ''Shower the People,'' ''My Traveling Star'' and ''You Can Close Your Eyes,'' all of which he performed at a Carnegie Hall gala concert on Tuesday evening celebrating the hall's 120th year, share the same...
Once upon a time in Lotus Land, the Troubadour, a 300-seat nightclub in West Hollywood, Calif., became the center of the singer-songwriter movement that dominated American pop during much of the 1970s. Created by Doug Weston, a wild-haired eccentric whose favorite attire was a green corduroy suit that earned him the nickname Jolly Green Giant, the...
James Vernon Taylor (født 12. marts 1948) er en amerikansk singer-songwriter og guitarist. Han opnåede sit gennembrud med numre som "Fire and Rain" (1970) og Carole Kings "You've Got a Friend" (1971) og etablerede sig op gennem 1970'erne med en række populære popalbums som Greatest Hits (1976) og JT (1977). Han havde sin storhedstid i dette årti, men har i øvrigt fået et pænt comeback i slutningen af 1990'erne.
James Taylor er ud over sine egne udgivelser kendt for at give en hånd med hos en række andre kunstnere, heriblandt Carly Simon (som han var gift med i en periode), Neil Young, Joni Mitchell og Dixie Chicks, lige som en lang række andre musikere har medvirket på hans indspilninger, blandt andet Carly Simon, Joni Mitchell, Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder, Art Garfunkel, David Crosby og Graham Nash. Han har modtaget adskillige priser, herunder fem Grammy-priser, og han blev optaget i Rock and Roll Hall of Fame i 2000. Fold ud