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- Posted: 11/04/2015 21:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#1801): Sweet Baby James by James Taylor
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Today's album of the day
Sweet Baby James by James Taylor (View album | Buy this album)
Year: 1970.
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Overall rank: 1,146
Average rating: 77/100 (from 159 votes).
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Tracks:
1. Sweet Baby James
2. Lo And Behold
3. Sunny Skies
4. Steamroller
5. Country Road
6. Oh, Susannah
7. Fire And Rain
8. Blossom
9. Anywhere Like Heaven
10. Oh Baby, Don't You Loose Your Lip On Me
11. Suite For 20 G
About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
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Applerill
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- #2
- Posted: 11/04/2015 21:05
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"I mean, in 1971 Jesus and James [Taylor] could kind of pass for brothers, and didn't Jesus have a brother named James?"-Tori Amos, on her connection between Jesus and the rock stars she was sexually attracted to as a teenager (Piece By Piece, 2005)
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RockyRaccoon
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- Posted: 11/04/2015 21:19
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One of James Taylor's best without a doubt. I have this on vinyl and my son picks it out all the time for a record to listen to at night when he goes to bed. There's something so soothing about Taylor's voice, and the songs are great. Obviously the title track is a classic, as is Fire And Rain. Steamroller is great, his arrangement of Oh, Susannah is cool too, and Suite for 20 G is a really nice closer. It's not an album that'll blow you away, but it's a really nice, well-written album.
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Norman Bates
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Age: 51
Location: Paris, France
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- Posted: 11/04/2015 21:20
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| Applerill wrote: | | "I mean, in 1971 Jesus and James [Taylor] could kind of pass for brothers, |
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 the eyebrows maybe?
Anyway, pretty boring record - and I'm a singer-songwriter enthusiast. In the same year only, records by:
Judee Sill
Gene Clark
Joni Mitchell
Bill Fay
Michael Hurley
J.J. Cale
Leonard Cohen
David Crosby
Colin Blunstone
Andy Zwerling
Anne Briggs
Roy Harper
Lee Hazlewood
John Martyn
Nilsson
Karen Dalton
Van Morrison
John Prine
Colin Hare
Carole King
Jack Hardy
Bert Jansch
Mickey Newbury
were much much better. Not to mention Black singer-songwriters who, to be fair, worked other genres and are more difficult to compare.
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Satie
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- Posted: 11/04/2015 21:24
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| Norman Bates wrote: | | the eyebrows maybe? |
no, the fact that they were both white 
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Norman Bates
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Age: 51
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- #6
- Posted: 11/04/2015 21:24
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| Satie wrote: | | no, the fact that they were both white |
Aren't we all brothers
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Satie
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- Posted: 11/04/2015 21:25
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| Norman Bates wrote: | | Aren't we all brothers |
you pinkos seem to think so
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jbray
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- Posted: 11/05/2015 02:37
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I am of the opinion that there is a place in music for artists or groups that serve no other purpose than to play music that is easy to hear and easy to move on from. I think James Taylor does a great job of being a crowd pleaser with little flash or challenge and this is an album that exemplifies that. Some of the songs on this record are really memorable and others are pretty plain, but nothing is bad and nothing is masterpiece status.
I probably spin this a couple of times a year and that's all it could ask for outside of the "getting to know you" period.
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