[squeaky wheel]

Bob Dylan in a famous interview on 60 Minutes many years ago candidly admitted that he no longer has the creative juice that he had during his early years. I think that happens to a lot of the songwriters that we love, perhaps including James Taylor himself. I know that one of my favorites, Paul McCartney, in my estimation has dwindled in his creative talent in the last couple of decades in terms of writing inspired songs. It’s not that James Taylor has not written anything good in the last couple of decades – I really like Whenever You’re Ready which was one of his last songs before he stopped writing new material, but the other songs on the album are, while fairly good, not stellar as his songs used to be back in the days of yore. Anyway, I hope James goes back to the drawing board and tries to come up with some new stuff. I would recommend to him that he experiment and even do goofy things in order to dislodge some of the ossification that may have accrued in his increasingly comfortable retirement years.

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