Click now to watch father and daughter duo Erin Rae & David Brock perform JT’s “You Can Close Your Eyes”, from the 1971 album, Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon.
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James is digging deep into his personal archives to share newly unearthed or restored video and audio gems via his official James Taylor YouTube channel. There’s a lot of exciting material in the works so read what he has to say:
There’s a lot of stuff in the vault from over the years and we’ll rummage around in there – see what we can find… We’ll do our best to maintain the sharpest photographic clarity and highest fidelity sound quality that modern technology can afford. Best perhaps to start at the beginning, so up first are some the songs from a BBC broadcast in the early 1970s. This may not be the earliest film of me performing… but it’s got to be close. We will roll these out one song at a time over the next many weeks. I wish you the joy of it.”
~James
A special shout-out to legendary artists (and JT pals), Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax, for their extraordinary gift last week honoring the essential workers in and around Pittsfield, MA and Berkshire County.
Here’s a small sampling of our Pittsfield-based neighbors, family and friends who continue to keep us safe, healthy, well-fed and well-educated:
Cultural Pittsfield, Pittsfield Fire Department I.A.F.F.2647, City Hall-City of Pittsfield, Downtown Pittsfield, Inc; Williams Elementary School, Allendale Elementary School, UPS, Pittsfield Public Schools Bus Operations, Pittsfield Public Schools, Berkshire Theatre Group, High Lawn Farm, Roots Rising, Pittsfield Farmers Market, Berkshire Health Systems, Berkshire Medical Center, 1Berkshire.
Click now to watch brothers Christian and Jason Winter surprise their Mom with a cover of JT’s “Sweet Baby James” for her birthday!
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This Sunday, September 6, Apple Music Radio will air James Taylor: Essentials Radio, an hour-long program featuring James and host Zane Lowe playing and discussing some of James’s greatest hits.
The show will air live twice on Sunday, at 2am PT / 5am ET and again at 2pm PT / 5pm ET, and will then be available for on-demand listening for Apple Music subscribers.
Seiji Ozawa, of the Boston Symphony and Tanglewood, turned 85 on Tuesday. Kim worked with him for 25 years and the whole Taylor family misses him and sends their love!
Click now to watch Denis Ducharme and company perform James’s “Your Smiling Face”, originally found on the 1977 album, JT.
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