James wants to see your pictures! Send in your best concert photos and they may be featured on James’s social networks or in a future edition of this newsletter. This week we feature a shot from fan Colleen M, taken at Tuesday night’s show in Pittsburgh. #JTBackOnTour
James’s friend, the great Tony Bennett, turns 95 years old today! Happy birthday, Tony!
Photo: Chris Lee
Heads up! If you’re attending one of the shows on James and Jackson’s summer tour:
Check your concert times! Most shows start at 7 or 7:30 pm. Additionally, with enhanced screening and safety protocols you may experience longer lines than normal, so be sure to come early and wear comfortable shoes! Enjoy the show!
To see all of James’s upcoming dates, please visit the Schedule page on JamesTaylor.com.
In early 2007 James embarked on the One Man Band Tour, performing shows across the US and the UK in a unique configuration featuring James on guitar/vocal and his “one man band” Larry Goldings, on keyboards. This week’s selection from the vault is the opening and first song from the One Man Band concert film. The DVD was taped over three nights at the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield, MA and released in 2007.
Click now to watch, and be sure to subscribe to James’s official YouTube channel to see what comes next!
At last! James’s cross-country US tour with Jackson Browne began last night at the United Center in Chicago. If you were there or will be attending any of the other nights on the tour — James wants to see your pictures! Send in your best concert photos and they may be featured on James’s social networks or in a future edition of this newsletter. #JTBackOnTour
Top photo: Bill Smith, United Center, Chicago, July 29, 2021
Attending James’s concert at Blossom Music Center tomorrow night (July 31)? Did you know that James holds the record for most performances at Blossom by any artist outside of the Cleveland Orchestra? 25 times in 50 Years. Read more here at Cleveland.com.
All-Star Band member, Andrea Zonn, stars in the just-released song video “Let It Burn”, written by Art Garfunkel, Maia Sharp and Randy Sharp and taken from the new, original musical The Girl In The Red Dress.
Click now to see the video, and visit GirlInTheRedDress-TheMusical.com for more details.
James here. We’re in rehearsals for this summer‘s tour with Jackson Browne, which starts in Chicago on the 29th. I can’t tell you how excited everyone in the band and crew feels about finally seeing you, our audience, again. Some of you have held onto your tickets for the better part of two years. Now, at long last, Jackson and I are going to play those concerts. We studied long and hard over when we might safely go back out and I still think that this August is the right window of time for our return. I hope that most of you have done your duty and gotten vaccinated. We all have and we’re taking all the right steps to be safe as we travel across the country. I want you to be safe too and, with that in mind, I just wanted to encourage anyone who feels like wearing a mask to go ahead and do so. If I were going to a concert in these times, I know I’d mask up. That’s it for now. See you in a minute.
~James Taylor
Stage photo: Ellyn Kusmin, July 25, 2021
James is pleased to announce the fantastic musicians that make up the Summer 2021 All-Star Band. Visit the Meet The Band section to learn about each artist!
In November 2018 James performed as part of Joe Walsh’s VetsAid 2018 benefit concert, which raised more than $800,000 to help support veterans and their families. Click now to see James and the VetsAid band deliver a lovely version of JT’s “Carolina In My Mind”.