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JAMES TAYLOR
In The Pocket

as reviewed by Jack Crompton at Amazon.com, December 31, 2008

If all my golden moments could be rolled into one...

What more can be said about James Taylor? The man is prolific and for more than four decades now has been creating such a wealth of beautiful, personal songs that it is indeed very difficult to pick one album out as a favorite.

There are many contenders on my list... ‘One Man Dog’ by virtue of the exquisite gem, ‘Daddy’s Baby’; ‘Mud Slide Slim’ by virtue of the wonderful classic ‘You Can Close Your Eyes’ among several others; and more contemporary recordings to numerous to mention here.

This album, ‘In the Pocket’ is loaded with wonderful tunes, and I”m choosing it to review here basically because it has lots of really great material on it that went under the radar of most of the music world. ‘Shower the People’ got a lot of airplay, but it’s hardly the best material on here. JT’s best material is always the stuff they never played on the radio. ‘Slow Burning Love’, ‘Daddy’s All Gone’, Captain Jim’s Drunken Dream’, ‘Don’t Be Sad Cause Your Sun Is Down’, ‘Nothing Like A Hundred Miles’ (my favorite traveling down the highway song) and ‘Golden Moments’ are all tunes that are near the top of my ‘JT’ list for pure listening pleasure.

If you like James Taylor (who doesn’t?) and never got to hear these tunes, you owe it to yourself to check it out. By the time you get to ‘Golden Moment’s’ you will be sufficiently lost in the beauty of this man’s unique poetry. ‘All it really needed, was the proper point of view’. ‘Welcome Home’.

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