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James Taylor - Live At The Beacon Theatre
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James Taylor is an American singer-songwriter, born in Boston, Massachusetts. He grew up in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where his father was the dean of the University of North Carolina Medical School. His family summered on Marthas Vineyard. Taylors career began in the mid- 1960s, but he found his audience in the early 1970s, singing sensitive & gentle acoustic songs. In spite of a significant base of critics & listeners who dismiss the early 1970s singer-songwriters, his Greatest Hits album from 1976 was certified diamond & has sold more than 11 million copies. Taylors four siblings, Alex, Livingston, Hugh & Kate have also been musicians with recorded albums. Taylors children with Carly Simon, Ben & Sally, have also embarked on musical careers. Taylor first learned the cello as a child, then switched to the guitar in 1960. While attending Milton Academy, a prep school in Massachusetts, Taylor met Danny Kortchmar at Marthas Vineyard & the two began playing folk music together. Posters Of James TaylorBy now, Taylors skill at low-key love songs is a given, making him an archetypal sensitive New Age guy on the strength of his canny mix of emotional vulnerability, romantic imagery, & understated delivery. Less obviously, Taylor has gradually transformed the shadows of disillusionment audible in his earliest songs into a nuanced acknowledgement of his own age. Line Em Up, from Hourglass, typifies his skill at limning disarmingly lucid, frankly philosophical vignettes, here woven around a recollection of Richard Nixons last hurrah, while Jump Up Behind Me affords a testament to self-determination ultimately as serious in theme as it is buoyant in its musical framework. Throughout, Taylors stage band proves a thoroughbred, its accompaniment rock solid & delicately detailed, & perfectly matched to a crack backing chorus.
Among the first video concerts produced with DVD in mind, Live at the Beacon Theatre has been in heavy rotation in home demonstration suites ever since its release, an achievement understandable after hearing the crystalline 5.1 mix engineered by Frank Filipetti, who shared a Grammy as co-producer on Hourglass & snagged a second award for his engineering of that album.
Valerie Carter is an American singer-songwriter. Carter is perhaps best known as a back-up vocalist who has recorded & performed with a number of singers including Jackson Browne, Don Henley, Linda Ronstadt, and, most notably, James Taylor. Carter has written songs for Judy Collins, Jackson Browne & Turn It into Something Good to name but three. She has recorded five albums of her own. // Al Kooper — Championship Wrestling —. Aselin Debison — Sweet Is the Melody —. Christopher Cross — Christopher Cross —. Diana Ross — Force Behind the Power —. Little Feat — The Last Record Album —. Maureen McCormick — When You Get a Little Lonely —. Up on the Roof. Songs from the Brill Building —. All Dressed Up & No Place To Go —. Vonda Shepard — Songs from Ally McBeal —. Willie Nelson — Healing Hands of Time —.
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