Smokey & Friends is a studio album by musician Smokey Robinson. It was released in August 2014 under Verve Records. Reaching #12 on Billboard’s album chart, it stands as Smokey’s second most successful solo album. Tracks 1 The Tracks Of My Tears (Marvin Tarplin; Smokey Robinson) 03:27 2 You Really Got A Hold On Me […]
Back To Bacharach is an album by American singer and record Producer Steve Tyrell honoring the work of Burt Bacharach. It was released in 2008. The expanded edition contains 5 extra songs. Tracks 1 That’s What Friends Are For (Burt Bacharach; Carole Bayer Sager) 03:44 * 2 Walk On By (Burt Bacharach; Hal David) 03:28 […]
Before This World is the nineteenth studio album by American singer-songwriter James Taylor. Released on June 15, 2015, it was Taylor’s first new studio album of original material since October Road (2002) and first studio album of any kind since Covers in 2008. He recorded the album in a barn on his property in western […]
Nearness of You: The Ballad Book is the seventh studio album by saxophone player Michael Brecker. Accompanied by Herbie Hancock on piano, Pat Metheny on guitars, Charlie Haden on bass, Jack DeJohnette on drums, and a special guest appearance by James Taylor, the album was released by Verve Records on June 19, 2001. Brecker was […]
A Christmas Album is the first Christmas album by American singer-songwriter James Taylor released on a limited-edition basis in 2004, with distribution through Hallmark stores. The albums were also not carried by all Hallmark Cards stockists. Tracks 1 Winter Wonderland (Dick Smith, Felix Bernard) 3:36 2 Go Tell It on the Mountain (Traditional) 3:48 3 […]
No Nukes: The Muse Concerts For a Non-Nuclear Future was a 1979 triple live album that contained selections from the September 1979 Madison Square Garden concerts by the Musicians United for Safe Energy collective. Jackson Browne, Graham Nash, Bonnie Raitt, and John Hall were the key organizers of the event and guiding forces behind the […]
Covers is the eighteenth studio album and the first covers album by singer-songwriter James Taylor released in 2008. The album was recorded with his regular touring band. Some of the tunes Taylor had been performing off and on in concerts for years, while others were new to his repertoire. It received general positive reviews and […]
Walking Man is the fifth studio album by singer-songwriter James Taylor. Released in June 1974, it was not as successful as his previous efforts, reaching only No. 13 on the Billboard Album Chart and selling 300,000 copies in the United States. Until 2008’s Covers, it was Taylor’s only studio album not to receive a gold […]
That’s Why I’m Here is the eleventh studio album by singer-songwriter James Taylor released in 1985, four years after his previous effort, Dad Loves His Work. The album contains a version of Buddy Holly’s “Everyday”, as well as the participation of several singers, including Don Henley, Joni Mitchell, Graham Nash and Deniece Williams. “My Romance” […]
“Everyday” is a song written by Buddy Holly and Norman Petty, recorded by Buddy Holly and the Crickets on May 29, 1957. A version recorded by James Taylor was released in 1985, rising to number 3 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart in the US and number 1 on the Canadian Adult Contemporary chart; it […]