James Taylor - Sweet Baby James - Kevin Gray /Steve Hoffman Mastered -Long OOP

Description: Please see all my AUDIOPHILE listings, I combine ship. Media : Excellent Outer sleeve: VG+ Please see photos as they are integral part of description. Label: Warner Bros. Records 274300Country: USReleased: 2017Genre: Folk RockBarcode: 081227997014 Tracklist A1Sweet Baby JamesA2Lo And BeholdA3Sunny SkiesA4SteamrollerA5Country RoadA6Oh, SusannahB1Fire And RainB2BlossomB3Anywhere Like HeavenB4Oh Baby, Don't You Loose Your Lip On MeB5Suite For 20G Credits Remastered By - Kevin Gray, Steve Hoffman Notes Barnes & Noble exclusive on lighter weight vinyl, repressing of 2008 Rhino reissue using KG & SH mastering. Runout includes "KG/SH @ ATM" and the same "RHI1-274300 A" (and B) also from the 2008 Rhino version as well. AMG ReviewTaylor’s sense of wounded hopelessness struck a chord with music fans, especially because of its attractive mixture of folk, country, gospel, and blues elements, all of them carefully understated and distanced… As a result, Sweet Baby James sold millions of copies, spawned a Top Ten hit in “Fire and Rain” and a Top 40 hit in “Country Road,” and launched not only Taylor’s career as a pop superstar but also the entire singer/songwriter movement of the early ’70s that included Joni Mitchell, Carole King, Jackson Browne, Cat Stevens, and others.Rolling Stone Review (4/30/70)Last August James Taylor was quoted in Rolling Stone thusly: “I hope my next album will be simpler. It has to be, because the music is simple and a big production job just buries all my intentions.” Well, this first post-Apple album dovetails nicely with that anticipation, even down to the inclusion of Stephen Foster’s “Oh, Susannah,” buck-wheat cakes in her mouth and all.Peter Asher (formerly at Apple with Taylor) produced this album, as well as Taylor’s first, and, one can hear, let Taylor have free rein this time. Echoes of the Band, the Byrds, country Dylan and folksified Dion abound, yet somehow Taylor pulls through it all with a very listenable record that is all his own. The gentle, intelligent manipulation of piano, steel guitar, fiddle and a few brass arrangements alone deserve a close listening to by any erstwhile producers.And it is hard to fault Taylor’s lyrics. “Sweet Baby James,” with its “cowboys waiting for summer/his pastures to change” and “Fire and Rain” with its “Sweet dreams and fire machines in pieces on the ground” are just a few of the images that Taylor develops. Throughout, his vocal stance is low-key and perfectly matched to the country-styled guitar work. No acute solos or overstressed melodies appear as musicians and vocalist together manage to mandala their way through Taylor’s persistent lonely prairie/lovely Heaven visions that, at times, work their way up to the intensity of a haiku or the complexity of a parable.Taylor only shifts from this stance a couple of times. “Oh Baby, Don’t You Loose Your Lip On Me” is less than two minutes long; bluesy yet random, it sounds like studio hijinks used to fill out an album. But the other exception, “Steam Roller,” is a different story. Here Taylor is earthy and lowdown with definitely crude electric guitar behind him as he moans “I’m gonna inject your soul with some sweet rock and roll and shoot you full of rhythm and blues.” Then a miasmic, brass riff to make sure things stay tough, followed by a particularly timely and potent a couple of verses: “I’m a napalm bomb for you baby/stone guaranteed to blow your mind/and if I can’t have your love for my own sweet child/there won’t be nothing left behind.” A double-entendre tour-de-force pulled off effortlessly.This is a hard album to argue with; it does a good job of providing that his first effort was no fluke. This one gets off the ground just as nicely, as Taylor seems to have found the ideal musical vehicle to say what he has to say.– Gary Von Tersch, Rolling Stone, 4/30/70

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