Sunday, April 3, 2011

Sweet Baby James Taylor


Young James or old James, he is gorgeous, soulful, and talented.
And those eyes!

He has survived depression, drug addiction, mental hospitals, and the ups and downs of the music industry. James' biography

Today he is healthy and happily married to his 3rd wife. (I am still hoping to be his 4th!)

My favorite JT songs: Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight, Sweet Baby James, and Country Road.

Little known facts:

On December 7, 1980 Taylor had an encounter with Mark David Chapman who would assassinate John Lennon. Taylor told the BBC in 2010 "The guy had sort of pinned me to the wall and was glistening with maniacal sweat and talking some freak speak about what he was going to do and his stuff with how John was interested, and he was going to get in touch with John Lennon. And it was surreal to actually have contact with the guy 24 hours before he shot John." The next night Taylor who lived in the next building from Lennon heard the assassination.

Paul McCartney and George Harrison guested on "Carolina on My Mind", whose lyric holy host of others standing around me made reference to the Beatles, while the title phrase of Taylor's "Something in the Way She Moves" provided the starting point for Harrison's classic "Something."

LOVE YA JAMES!

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