Something special from the vault…
Sep 14, 2020
Stay tuned….

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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How does James plan his record releases? Turns out it may have something to do with a waxing moon! Click to watch this clip from James’s discussion with Bill Flanagan at the Break Shot launch event at Sheen Center in February 2020.
Three new interviews with James have been published recently — click here to read Mojo‘s in-depth feature; visit inews.co.uk to read a candid discussion on addiction, mental health and James’s hopes for the future; then head to AmericanSongwriter.com to hear and read a previously unpublished portion of a conversation from 2007.