James Taylor never ends a live performance without enthusiastically acknowledging the fine backup singers and players who join him in concert on the road. In an interview featured on “Live at the Beacon” (DVD), JT pays them tribute by saying, “It’s probably the great delight of my life to be able to play music with these people.”
Of James’ nine or so “regulars” during the last few years, two have … [ Read More ]
Sony is offering a free download of “Wasn’t That A Mighty Storm” via their site — with a catch. The track is the same as the Live At the Beacon Theatre performance, but the download is only available to current owners of the Greatest Hits Volume 2 CD. If you have the CD, you’re a Windows user and you live in the U.S., just put the CD in your computer’s CD-ROM and visit Sony’s site… [ Read More ]
| Laura Stegman is a writer and public relations consultant in Los Angeles. Her last feature story for JTO was about David Lasley. Her next will be about Clifford Carter. |
 Valerie Carter |
If you want to learn the facts about Valerie Carter’s considerable success as a solo performer, background vocalist and songwriter, don’t ask her. Oh, sure, she’ll tell you that she’s worked with James Taylor as a background singer dating … [ Read More ]
 John Sheldon |
John Sheldon remembers first hearing Something in The Way She Moves sitting at his family’s kitchen table. Many fans of James Taylor’s music might be able to say the same, but for this fact: Sheldon wasn’t listening to a recording.
Taylor, then a teenager, was sitting in the Sheldon family’s Boston-area kitchen, playing the song he had written for Sheldon’s older sister, Phoebe, who was Taylor’s steady at the time.
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| Date | Location | Venue / Time | Tickets | Notes / Status |
| 2007 | ||||
| January 1 | Albany, NY | Times Union Center (Pepsi Arena) | inaugurationny.org | New York State inauguration concert with JT, Natalie Merchant, and others. Free to those who RSVP via inaugurationny.org. |
| January 5 | New York, NY | Proshansky Auditorium (CUNY Graduate Center) | artsandleisureweekend.com | “New York |
