This week, James is sharing something a little different! Click now to watch a short film documenting the Taylor Family’s 2008 kayaking trip through the wetlands of Virginia’s Eastern Shore, a few days before James performed a benefit concert for The Nature Conservancy, which works to protect and preserve natural habitats worldwide.
Originally published nearly 20 years ago, the short has been completely remastered from high-resolution sources by filmmaker Jeff Nesmith.
James and the band played the Frost Amphitheater in Stanford, CA a few weeks back. Click now to view an album of photos from a lovely evening of music, then check out the Schedule page to see the rest of JT’s summer touring schedule. Tickets are going fast, so don’t delay!
What the world desperately needs now is cooperation, global cooperation on a list of pressing issues, from climate change to pandemic response, from humanitarian crises to sharing of the earth’s resources . That one individual, with his own army and his own nuclear arsenal should decide, unilaterally and without provocation, to mount an attack on his neighbor, ignoring another nation’s sovereignty and threatening the peace and progress of the entire world is beyond outrage. That one man’s whim and will should result in such uncalled for chaos and suffering, such a threat to all of our hopes for the future, is something we can simply no longer afford. Did we miss something? Did Ukraine attack or somehow threaten Russia? What possible justification can there be? What other explanation than the obvious: a bully who takes what he wants by force? We must be united in our universal rejection of this travesty. The world must insist that this abomination cannot stand. Civilization itself is at stake. Putin’s war is the categorical and polar opposite of what the world needs now…
~James Taylor
