Sweet baby James

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Sweet baby James
Studio album by James Taylor

Publication
(s)

1970

Label (s) Warner Bros. Records

Format (s)

LP

Genre (s)

Folk rock

Title (number)

11

running time

31:14

production

Peter Asher

chronology
James Taylor
(1968) 		Sweet baby James James Taylor and the Original Flying Machine
(1971)

Sweet Baby James is a music album by James Taylor .

history

James Taylor had returned to the United States from the UK in 1968 and released his debut album that year. In 1969 he had several successful live performances after being treated for his drug addiction. After the Newport Folk Festival , he broke both hands in a motorcycle accident and was unable to perform for several months. After recovering, he went to the recording studio in late 1969 and recorded the songs for the Sweet Baby James album . In February 1970 the album came on the market. As a single Warner released the song Fire and Rain , which came to third place on the Billboard charts. James Taylor had his first hit with it. The album Sweet Baby James also made it to third place on the pop album charts. The music magazine Rolling Stone selected the album in the list of the 500 best albums of all time at number 104 and the song Fire and Rain in the list of the best 500 songs of all time. The song Steamroller Blues was covered by Elvis Presley and released as a single in 1973. The recording for the single is a live recording from the show Aloha from Hawaii . Presley's version was even included in the 2007 compilation The Essential Elvis Presley .

Track list

Unless otherwise stated, all titles were composed and written by James Taylor.

  1. Sweet Baby James - 2:48
  2. Lo and Behold - 2:34
  3. Sunny Skies - 2:15
  4. Steamroller Blues - 2:55
  5. Country Road - 3:21
  6. Oh! Susanna ( S. Foster ) - 1:58
  7. Fire and Rain - 3:20
  8. Blossom - 2:10
  9. Anywhere Like Heaven - 3:23
  10. Oh Baby, Don't You Loose Your Lip on Me - 1:45
  11. Suite for 20 G - 4:45

occupation

  • James Taylor - guitar, vocals
  • Jack Bielan - brass
  • Chris Darrow - fiddle , violin
  • Carole King - piano, vocals
  • Danny Kortchmar - guitar
  • Russ Kunkel - drums
  • John London - bass
  • Randy Meisner - bass
  • Red Rhodes - steel guitar
  • Leland Sklar - bass
  • Bobby West - double bass

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Levy, Joe (Ed.): Rolling Stone. The 500 best albums of all time . (Original edition: Rolling Stone. The 500 Greatest Albums of all Time . Wenner Media 2005). Translation: Karin Hofmann. Wiesbaden: White Star Verlag, 2011, p. 103
  2. ↑ In Rolling Stone's 500 greatest albums

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