You might remember this song video of “Montana Blues” posted by James last Spring. One year later, James’s pals, Jimmy Johnson (bass) and Chad Wackerman (drums) sent over this version which pleased Ting the pug very much. Click below to watch their remote collaboration now!
James is featured in issue #47 of Fretboard Journal, the quarterly publication which celebrates all things guitar! An excerpt from the complete Brian K. Saunders interview can be read online at FretboardJournal.com.
Click now for a red hot performance of “Streamroller Blues”, filmed at VetsAid 2018 and featuring Joe Walsh on guitar.
Held at the Tacoma Dome, VetsAid 2018 raised more than $800,000 to support our nation’s veterans and their families. For more information, please visit VetsAid.org.
Here’s one more entry for the #JTYouveGotAFriendChallenge, sent to us by Ed Mullins and featuring harmony by his son Eric. Click now to watch!
If you have a #JTFanCover to share (and don’t forget the new #JTJamesTaylorChallenge), please send us the link here.
James gets his vaccine from a frontline worker while Kim cheers him on.
James announces his next JT covers challenge! The next featured album is his 1968 debut album, James Taylor.
You’ll find the James Taylor track list here. Please dig deep into these choices and do not be shy about your performance! James doesn’t care how talented you are — this is about community, and he loves to see your effort, enthusiasm and collaborations with friends and family (we all do!).
If you have a #JTJamesTaylorChallenge video to share, please send us the link here!
Happy first birthday to American Standard which was released on February 28, 2020. Click below for a special look at the making of the album set to James’s recording of “God Bless The Child”, and click here to pick up the album if you haven’t already!
“You’ve Got A Friend” appears on two albums turning 50 this year — Carole King’s Tapestry and James’s Mud Slide Slim And The Blue Horizon. Both albums were released back in 1971!
Click now to watch this classic performance of “You’ve Got A Friend”, taken from James’s 1971 episode of ‘BBC In Concert’. Carole joins on piano along with Lee Sklar and Russ Kunkel.
Click below to see JT’s “Mexico” as performed by Eddy Smith. James’s version can be found on his 1975 release, Gorilla.
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In recognition of Black History Month, here are James’s lyrics to his 1991 song, “Shed a Little Light” (from New Moon Shine), dedicated to Martin Luther King Jr. The video performance is from the Lowcountry Voices‘ 2015 guest appearance with James at the Colonial Life Arena in Columbia, SC.
Oh let us turn our thoughts today to Martin Luther King
And recognize that there are ties between us
All men and women, living on the earth
Ties of hope and love, sister and brotherhood
That we are bound together
With a desire to see the world become
A place in which our children can grow free and strong
We are bound together by the task that stands before us
And the road that lies ahead, we are bound then we are bound
There is a feeling like the clenching of the fist
There is a hunger in the center of the chest
There is a passage through the darkness and the mist
Though the body sleeps the heart will never rest
(Shed a little light ohh lord) Shed a little light oh lord
(So that we can see) Ohh now
(Just a little light ohh lord) Just a little light oh lord
(Gonna stand it on up) Stand it on up
(Stand it up ohh Lord) Get down
(Gonna walk it on down) Gonna shed a little
(Shed a little light ohh lord)
(Can’t get no light from a dollar bill)
(Don’t give no light from the TV screen) No No No No
(When I open my eyes, I want to drink my fill)
(From the well on the hill)
Then you know where I’ll be