When James met Dave
Apr 27, 2021A fully vaccinated JT and Dave Matthews ham it up while enjoying Winter’s (hopefully) last gasp of snow.
Photo: Kim Taylor
A fully vaccinated JT and Dave Matthews ham it up while enjoying Winter’s (hopefully) last gasp of snow.
Photo: Kim Taylor
Click below to watch the first segment of There We Were: The Making of Before This World, a four-part documentary about the recording of James’s 2015 album of new songs, Before This World. The album was James’s first ever to reach #1 on the Billboard charts and was nominated for a Grammy Award in the category of Best Pop Vocal Album.
Visit CharityBuzz.com today to bid on two James Taylor auctions in support the farmers at Tuberville! Tuberville’s mission includes planting, growing and donating tons of food in order to sustain and strengthen communities in need. Signed and personalized items include: a Yamaha guitar with Sweet Baby James pop up book and James’s personal Lead sheet for “Fire & Rain”.
Please visit Tuberville.org for more information.
This Sunday, April 25, at 1pm CT, New Orleans radio station WWOZ will air a 38-minute excerpt from James’s performance at the 2009 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.
Part of WWOZ’s Jazz Festing in Place 2021 event, James’s set will be available to stream online for two weeks following the broadcast at WWOZ.com.
John Pizzarelli — who plays on and co-produced American Standard — has a new album! Better Days Ahead features 13 solo guitar covers of songs by the great Pat Metheney.
Click here to see John perform “Last Train Home” from the album, and here to stream or purchase Better Days Ahead.
This must not be the exception that proves the rule. Rather, let it be a moment of realization for our country — that we might begin to understand what it means to be black in America. Our fellow countrymen of African descent have waited for so long to claim the rights promised to all citizens in our constitution. Those who would continue to deny them full citizenship, and to disguise that shameful racism as election security, as law and order, as patriotism — they are on the wrong side of history. Let us see what they do for what it is: a continuation of the national disgrace of institutional racism. In too many places in our country, policing means enforcing that evil, containing and walling-off the rage and desperation that must inevitably come from such gross inequality.
Let us wake up and feel real compassion for our fellow citizens. This is our national mission and our labor of love.
~James Taylor
April 21, 2021
Click the links below to see some great JT covers from some talented fans! If you have a JT cover to share, please send us a link to your video!
Phillip Wiginton
“Fire & Rain”
Fons Heuvelmans
“You Can Close Your Eyes”
Don Reilly
“Something In The Way She Moves”
Peter Bergenske
“Sweet Baby James”
Tad Worku
“You’ve Got A Friend”
Ian Ingles
“Carolina In My Mind”
Click below to see James perform “Sunny Skies”, on a classic 1971 episode of the BBC program ‘One In Ten’.”Sunny Skies” appeared on James’s second studio album, Sweet Baby James.
You never know what James will find in his vault next — subscribe to his official YouTube channel now to find out!
Tune in Thursday, April 22 for eTown’s 30th b’Earthday Celebration, a virtual event celebrating the long-running syndicated radio program’s 30th anniversary and induction into the Colorado Music Hall of Fame. Starting at 6:30 pm MT (8:30 ET/5:30 PT), the free live stream will feature appearances by Lyle Lovett, Bob Weir, Nathaniel Rateliff and more!
For more information and to register, please visit etown.org/30.
Click the links below to see some great JT covers from some talented fans! If you have a JT cover to share, please send us a link to your video!
George Martin
“Daddy’s Baby”
Carl Katz
“Mean Old Man”
Peter Levey
“Something In The Way She Moves”
Soulfood A Cappella
“Shower The People”
Hans Meier
“Carolina In My Mind”
Dave King
“Fire And Rain”