Click now for the third and final installment of There We Were: The Making of Before This World, the documentary companion to James’s 2015 album, Before This World. In this chapter James talks about common themes in his songwriting, we get a closer look at “Angel’s Of Fenway” (James’s nod to his beloved Red Sox), and Kim Taylor offers her personal insight into James’s creative process.
Here are this week’s wonderful JT fan covers! If you’d like to be featured in a future edition of this newsletter, please send us a link to your video!
Click to see The Ones (Astrid, Irene and Lieke) perform “Baby Boom Baby”, a song from James’s 1988 album, Never Die Young.
Here now is Bob Hirhson’s JT-inspired version of Carole King’s “You’ve Got A Friend”, which James recorded on 1971’s Mud Slide Slim And The Blue Horizon. (Hello to Alison!)
James’s friend and longtime vocalist, Arnold McCuller, has just released a new single!
“Chances Are” is a cover of the song made popular by Johnny Mathis in 1957, the first in a planned series of Johnny Mathis covers to come from Arnold in 2021. Visit ArnoldMcCuller.com for more and to stream or purchase the song now.
Click below to watch the second episode of There We Were: The Making of Before This World, a multi-part documentary about the recording of James’s 2015 album, Before This World. In this episode James works on vocal overdubs with singers Arnold McCuller, David Lasley, Kate Markowitz and Andrea Zonn. Sting also stops by to add his voice to the title track.
Click below to enjoy two more wonderful JT fan covers! If you’d like to be featured in a future edition of this newsletter, please send us a link to your video!
Here’s singer/songwriter Al B Sure’s James-inspired version of Carole King’s song “You’ve Got a Friend”.
Click now to see Josh Turner and Carson McKee perform JT’s “Sweet Baby James”.
James appears on UDiscoverMusic’s recent tally of the greatest musical guest stars in the history of The Simpsons!
James is in some good company — visit UDiscoverMusic.com now to see where he landed on the list!
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.