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But he makes them sound like confidences offered, not confessions imposed. He sings our worries- about marriage, the meaning of love in its first youthful and then second mature instances, about hard times and Daddy’s baby and that vast Nantucket sound and country roads and family secrets, not to mention the secret o’ life.
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Yet his demons are present in his music as they have surely been from time to time in the mind this makes his art an analgesic to modern anxiety without being a false balm to our troubles. He is not an artist who has courted controversy, or made a blazon out of difficulty, or indulged, too often, the imp of the perverse. It makes the sweetness and slyness all the more meaningful. Like any true artist, his work is structured by its contradictions: in James’ case by his enormous openness and sweetness of voice and tone set against the awareness within them of pain and difficulty overcome. (Listen to his wide-eyed bossa nova take on Loesser’s “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” with Natalie Cole, or to his prairie-longing “Wichita Lineman”.) Not only his own songs, but those of Richard Rodgers, Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye, Jimmy Webb, and Frank Loesser emerge as somehow slyer and sweeter than they had ever been before.
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When Guthrie Govan does his virtuosic pastiche of the fifty greatest guitars, JT is right there, alongside the electric speed merchants.Īnd then perhaps no singer since Nat Cole has managed to combine warmth and wisdom, gentleness, and musical authority, as JT does. “Strum adverse” as he has wryly described himself, his pianistic style, filled with plangent hammer-ons, complicated bass figures, and poignant slides, suggested a rich, orchestral approach to the guitar. “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely Tonight”, “Carolina In My Mind”, “You Can Close Your Eyes”, “Never Die Young”, “Shower The People”, “Secret O’Life”-so many beautiful songs to add to what we should now call “The Second American Songbook”-that great gathering of words and music, from the minds of Joni Mitchell and Paul Simon and Randy Newman and so many more, that is now part of our common inheritance as much as the first great Broadway-based songbook has been.Īs a guitar player James Taylor invented one of the most distinctive and instantly recognizable styles in American acoustic guitar. To adolescent longing and exuberance James Taylor brought a bittersweet melancholy that recalled American masters like Hoagy Carmichael and Harold Arlen, but recast their sadness in the forms and sounds of sixties rock, bringing a melodic charm of a newly modern kind to everything he wrote.
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The singer-songwriter before James Taylor was a strummer and a belter and a messenger after, he was a picker and a poet and an introspective crooner. Generations of young guitar players have learned their jazzy major sevenths and poignant minor ninths by working their way through James Taylor songbooks-and generations of young songwriters have found their new ways to make sadness sing. As a songwriter, he brought both a new emotional directness and a new harmonic sophistication to the American song. In all three roles he has made distinct and soulful and original sounds. He is a songwriter, a guitar player, and a singer. James Taylor arrives as an American legend in three separate if linked forms. Take a load off, put up your feet and browse and buy guitar sheet music today.Mailing List Facebook Twitter YouTube Google+ Instagram James Taylor by Adam Gopnik Looking for digital guitar music, guitar chord books, guitar play alongs and guitar transcriptions? No problem. Find thousands of guitar method and guitar etude books as well as your favorite guitar songbooks from Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Metallica, The Beatles and more. Whether you're a beginner starting from a clean slate or a guitar shredder gigging on a nightly basis, our guitar sheet music collection has everything you need. Browse guitar sheet music for all levels of guitar players.