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The Best of James Taylor
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0081227383725
Label: Rhino / Wea
Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea
MPN: 73837
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Rhino / Wea
Release Date: April 08, 2003
Studio: Rhino / Wea
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Editorial Review:
Any good singer can interpret a song, but it takes a stylist to make it his own. James Taylor is a stylist. This 20-track anthology obviously can't chronicle much more than the hits and high points of Taylor's career, but it nonetheless captures the artistic essence of a performer who's become a virtual synonym for "singer-songwriter" since his emergence in the late '60s. A lot of ink has been spilled ruminating about Taylor's role in soothing a '60s-burned generation, but given his own well-known demons (depression, addiction) his gentle voice often sounds like the physician wisely healing himself. His muse seems fully formed from the opening "Something in the Way She Moves," a track cut for the Beatles' Apple label in late `68 (and one that seems to share some symbiotic relationship with George Harrison's own classic "Something" from the period), its tone at once familiar and inviting--if ripe for a few decades of parody--as it wends its way from his seminal early '70s hits through a slate of later originals, R&B ("How Sweet It Is," "Handy Man") and pop ("Up On the Roof") covers. Tellingly, he delivers those chestnuts with an offhand confidence and illumination that makes them his own, a sense that informs even his jazz and Brazilian ("Only a Dream a Rio") flirtations. The set's newly recorded bonus cut, John Sheldon's "Bittersweet," is a pleasant pop confection that showcases Taylor's knack for being laconic and upbeat in the same breath. --Jerry McCulley
20 of his greatest singles and most popular album tracks released on Apple, Warner Bros. and Columbia/Sony. Slipcase. 2003.
Packaged with UK Only Slipcase Artwork.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - James Taylor the Best
Can't do better than Best of James, unless you see him live.
prefect for everyday misic in 50 something home!
Rating:  - The title says it all!
First,I'd like to wish James Taylor happy 60th birthday. This is a very good collection consuming the contents of his GREATEST HITS package with a few others from his Columbia Records era(Taylor has recorded on the label since 1977). This disc could use HER TOWN TOO(duet with J.D. Souther on 1981's DAD LOVES HIS WORK).
Rating:  - Discovery
I have just discovered the many things James Taylor writes and sings about. I got this album to get a copy of "How Sweet It Is" and found several other songs I like almost as much.
Rating: - JAMES TAYLOR
I GOT THIS DVD AT AMAZON NOT ONLY WAS IT A GREAT DVD,THE SERVICE FROM AMAZON WAS WONDERFUL,THEY WHERE FAST AND I WILL ALWAYS LOOK TO SEE WHAT AMAZON HAS BEFORE I GO TO ANOTHER SITE FOR ANYTHING IN THE FUTURE.
Rating:  - best of james taylor
I was disappointed that the first track seems to have been recorded at increased speed spoiling the feel of the song
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