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James recently taped and sent a personal video message to Mrs. Lapidus' 5th Grade Class at Pine Tree Elementary School in Monroe, NY.
Click here to read the students' story and to see James's video message.
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By Mark Shanahan and Meredith Goldstein
As we reported first, a blockbuster concert benefiting the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings will be held May 30 at TD Garden. Live Nation’s Don Law, one of the event’s organizers, will announce the lineup Friday at a press conference at the House of Blues. We’d heard the benefit for The One Fund would include some of the biggest names in Boston music, and, apparently, we heard right.
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Pacific Memories and Visions
By Ray Tsuchiyama
In March this year singer-songwriter and guitarist (and he is an excellent guitarist) James Taylor turned 65 years old, born three years after the end of World War II. His music would influence successive generations, but his biggest impact was on baby boomers. In a metric of his music's influence and impact, Taylor’s
Sweet Baby James album would be listed at No. 103 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time in 2003, with the song "Fire and Rain" listed as No. 227 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time the year after.
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