Sweet Baby James
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| Sweet Baby James | |||||
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| Studio album by James Taylor | |||||
| Released | February, 1970 | ||||
| Recorded | December, 1969 | ||||
| Genre | Rock | ||||
| Length | 31:14 | ||||
| Label | Warner Bros. Records | ||||
| Producer | Peter Asher | ||||
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Sweet Baby James is singer-songwriter James Taylor's second album, and his first release on Warner Bros. Records. It was released in February 1970 and features one of Taylor's earliest single successes: "Fire and Rain".
Sweet Baby James showcased Taylor's talents and showed the direction he would take in the early 1970s with the expansion of his career.
The song "Suite for 20 G" was so named because Taylor was promised a $20,000 advance once the album was delivered. With one more song needed, he strung together three unfinished songs into a "suite," and completed the album.[1]
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[edit] Track listing
All songs by James Taylor unless otherwise noted.
- "Sweet Baby James" – 2:48
- "Lo and Behold" – 2:34
- "Sunny Skies" – 2:15
- "Steamroller Blues" – 2:55
- "Country Road" – 3:21
- "Oh! Susanna" (S. Foster) – 1:58
- "Fire and Rain" – 3:20
- "Blossom" – 2:10
- "Anywhere Like Heaven" – 3:23
- "Oh Baby, Don't You Loose Your Lip on Me" – 1:45
- "Suite for 20 G" – 4:45
[edit] Personnel
- 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
[edit] Awards and recognition
- In 2003 the TV network VH1 named Sweet Baby James the 77th greatest album of all time.
- In 2003, the album was ranked number 104 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
