James Taylor – Covers
From the Artist
I’ve done covers of other people’s songs since the beginning. Looking over the various collections of my tunes a fair-sized portion of my “hits” have been covers: “You’ve Got a Friend”, “How Sweet it Is”, “Up On the Roof”, “Handyman”…so this is not uncharted water for me. I’ve always thought that writing an original song and reinterpreting someone else’s were similar processes; just as making music is a lot like listening to it.
What has been so memorable about this album were the sessions themselves: ten days in deep January 2008 in a converted barn in the woods of Western Massachusetts. It’s remarkable and unusual today to put 12 musicians in the same place at the same time. It’s a type of “live” recording sadly seldom seen in these days of the overdub. You get an immediate energy and it’s a whole lot of fun. It sweeps you up and it carries you along and when it’s done, it’s done.
Covers is the album that James Taylor fans have been anticipating for years. Recorded live with his full band in a barn in Massachusetts that was transformed into a studio, the album is a treasury of songs he has performed live over the years, but never recorded. It is an American songbook of tunes made famous by artists as varied as Buddy Holly, The Dixie Chicks, The Temptations, Leonard Cohen, George Jones and Eddie Cochran, but embraced and interpreted by James Taylor in a way that makes each one his own. It is a significant work by one of the greatest artists of his generation, which pays tribute to classic American songs from Broadway to Nashville, Detroit to Memphis and across all boundaries. Covers is in itself a classic James Taylor recording.
Format : CD/Vinyl Number of Discs : 1 Release Date: 30 Sept. 2008 Label: HEAR MUSIC Genre: Pop & ROCK Track List: 1. It's Growing 2. (I'm A) Road Runner 3. Wichita Lineman 4. Why Baby Why 5. Some Days You Gotta Dance 6. Seminole Wind 7. Suzanne 8. Hound Dog 9. Sadie 10.On Broadway 11.Summertime Blues 12.Not fade Away Enhanced Bonus Disc:(Available Only in Covers Limited DeLuxe Edition) 1. Get A Job 2. In The Midnight Hour 3. Knock On Wood 4. Oh, What A Beautiful Morning 5. Enhanced Behind the Scenes Footage(Video Playable in Computers) Personnel: James Taylor - Vocals, Guitars, Harmonica Andrea Zonn - Fiddle, Back-up Vocals David Lasley - B/Vocals Kate Markowitz - B/Vocals Arnold McCuller - B/Vocals Caroline Taylor - B/Vocals) Michael Landau - Electric Guitar Yo-Yo Ma - Cello Lou Marini - Flute, Clarinet, Saxophone Walt Fowler - Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Keyboards Larry Goldings - Piano, Electric Piano, Organ Jeff Babko - Piano, Organ Jimmy Johnson - Bass Steve Gadd - Drums Luis Conte - Percussion Arrangers: James Taylor; Larry Goldings; Lou Marini; Walt Fowler; Yo-Yo Ma. Audio Mixer: Dave O'Donnell.
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