James Taylor - The Best of James Taylor
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Free Music Review: A great compilation!
Hit: 5 Stars
"The Best of James Taylor" boasts almost all of JT's most memorable and familiar songs of the past 30 years. The quality of the CD is great and the superior mastering of the disk and captures perfectly Taylor's wonderful range and melodic tonality.
Staples such as "Fire and Rain", "How Sweet It Is", "You've Got a Friend", "Sweet Baby James", "Country Road", and 15 more, including a previously unreleased song entitled "Bittersweet".
This disk is a great value for Taylor fans looking for something other than a box set or for music enthusiasts just looking for a great compilation of JT's best. Those unfamiliar with his work could do no better than to start with this CD to catch the essence of Taylor's artistic styling.
The budget-conscious should note that this set includes every song found on Rhino's earlier "James Taylor, Greatest Hits, Vol. 1", plus a bonus of 8 more. In many stores, these CD's are even sold at the same price.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
Free Music Review: PLEASANT NOSTAGIA
Hit: 5 Stars
I just saw James Taylor perform on Jay Leno's final show and the whole thing moved me to tears - the song itself and the acoustic guitar used to sing it, the fact that Taylor is Leno's favorite and good friend and also one of my faves, and the fact that it was Leno's last show. I just couldn't take the emotion, so I went to Amazon to seek out a JT cd that would take my mind off what I just watched. The very first cd on the list by JT was this greatest hits collection which had all the songs I grew up with starting in the early 70s. As he got older, I didn't like the content of his songs so much, so the early ones are my very favorites. And this cd had them all - so many I remember and sang along to. It doesn't mean I'll never buy another JT cd but I definitely will buy this one because it brings back to me better times in my life. This is 2009 and I've been crazy about JT since the early 70s when I was still in high school. You don't have much more staying power than that.Free Music Review: What were you doing when you first heard his songs?
Hit: 5 Stars
They were my parents albums and my girlfriends and I would put them on when we got home from school. It was always sunny out--this was Southern California, the years of endless draught. We'd take off our flip flops and sing along word for word. My parents had these wooden sticks that you'd clack together to make "music." We used them for microphones, belting it out as loudly as we could.
Sometimes we'd do homework, our books spread about the floor in front of the fireplace. We'd sing quietly, working on math, then belt it out again at the chorus. When my parents came home, they'd come in the living room and my mother would sing harmony. My dad couldn't sing. But he'd take our "microphones" away and clack them together keeping the beat and bouncing his head like a bobble-head toy.
These songs make me feel all that again. The security of people you love, the warmth of friendship. The joy of singing as loudly as you can.
Free Music Review: The Best One Disc Compilation of the Man That's Out There!
Hit: 5 Stars
This is by far the best compilation of JT's work that's out there. Not only are the 20 tracks here truly representative of the best that JT's ever done, the sound quality is brilliant as the tracks have also been very well remastered. For those of you who are sticklers for detail and order, the tracks are arranged in chronological order as well and yet the album does not sound as disjointed as you might expect. The liner notes albeit short have been written by JT himself too. JT is that special individual who has managed to carve out his own unique sound and his works are able to evoke great emotion out of his listeners with the ability to transport them to other worlds. Great remastered sound, great value for money and great songwriting make this a must have in any music-lover's collection. Very highly recommended.Free Music Review: We're Grateful Too James for all the great music......
Hit: 5 Stars
The sound is great on this CD! This is the first time JT's WB music has been remastered since the original WB recordings where issued on CD. I heard things on the Sweet Baby James tracks I have never heard before . The selection is great too. The original Apple recording of Something in the Way She Moves is included in this collection. It's a vintage James Taylor track well worth the cost of the CD alone! All the WB hits are included as well as some tracks off JT Flag and That's Why I'm Here. So a perfect companion to the James Taylors Greatest Hits Vol 2 on CBS.James ends his remarks in the booklet with the lines "It was lucky that some of you liked some of it enough to listen. Enough to allow it to continue. Don't think I'm not grateful."