“The Unity Project” — Norman Rockwell Museum

James supports Norman Rockwell Museum’s “The Unity Project” which calls upon all Americans to uphold democracy by voting. Six leading contemporary illustrators were commissioned by the Museum to create motivational art in the in the Rockwell illustrated art tradition. You can download your favorite image here: https://vote.nrm.org/share/.

The Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA is now open to visitors. “The Unity Project” images will be on view as part of the Norman Rockwell: Imagining Freedom exhibition starting October 1. #RockTheVote #UnityProject

PLEASE VOTE!

Vote tattoos — courtesy of @BenjaminTaylorOfficial (Click the photo for a larger look!)

_{Unity Project artists: Mai Ly Degnan, Rudy Gutierrez, Anita Kunz, Tim O’Brien, Whitney Sherman, and Yuko Shimizu
JT photo: Ellyn Kusmin}

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#JTFanCover – “Copperline”

Click now to see a performance of JT’s “Copperline”, sent to James by Colin Davies from Maldon, Essex, UK! If you have a #JTFanCover to share with James, please click here to send us a link!

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BBC ’70 — “Steamroller Blues”

Click below to watch the latest video “from the vault”: James’s 1970 BBC “In Concert with James Taylor” performance of “Streamroller Blues”.

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BBC ’70 — “Rainy Day Man”

Visit James’s Official YouTube channel now to watch “Rainy Day Man” from James’s classic 1970 BBC “James Taylor In Concert” performance, newly restored!

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Happy 130th Carnegie Hall!

On Wednesday, October 7, Carnegie Hall will celebrate the opening of its 130th season with a Virtual Gala Celebration featuring a video message and previously unreleased song video from James as well as archival performances from Jon Batiste, Renée Fleming, Rhiannon Giddens, Lang Lang, Wynton Marsalis, and many more!

This free stream will air October 7 at 7:30 pm ET. For full details on how to watch, please visit CarnegieHall.org.

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#JTFanCover – “Fire And Rain”

Click now to see fan Sean Lehman’s rendition of JT’s “Fire And Rain”!

If you would like to share your own #JTFanCover, please click here to send us a link!

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“Fire And Rain” — BBC In Concert 1970

Click now to watch James perform “Fire And Rain” on the popular BBC series In Concert on November 16, 1970. This newly restored footage is the second installment of James’s new series from from the Vault.

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Michael Landau — new album and interview

James’s longtime guitar player, Michael Landau, has a new album out! Liquid Quartet Live was recorded live at the Baked Potato club in Los Angeles last December with line-up featuring Abe Laboriel Jr, David Frazee and fellow JT bandmate, Jimmy Johnson.

Look for the album here, and check out a new interview with Michael on Guitar.com.

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#JTFanCover – “You Can Close Your Eyes”

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.

If you have your own #JTFanCover to share, please click here to send us a link!

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The Vault is open!

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

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