The Essential James Taylor

Tracklist

• 1
  Sweet Baby James
  2:51
  3.5 ★
• 2
  Fire and Rain
  3:23
  4.3 ★
• 3
  Long Ago and Far Away
  2:20
  3.0 ★
• 4
  You’ve Got a Friend
  4:28
  4.4 ★
• 5
  How Sweet It Is (to Be Loved by You)
  3:35
  3.8 ★
• 6
  Mexico
  2:59
  4.5 ★
• 7
  Shower the People
  4:31
  5.0 ★
• 8
  Steamroller (live)
  5:19
• 9
  Something in the Way She Moves
  3:09
  3.0 ★
• 10
  Carolina in My Mind
  3:58
  5.0 ★
• 11
  Handy Man
  3:16
  4.6 ★
• 12
  Your Smiling Face
  2:44
  4.6 ★
• 13
  Her Town Too

  James Taylor with J.D. Souther
  4:28
  3.5 ★
• 14
  Only One
  4:19
  4.0 ★
• 15
  Never Die Young
  4:24
• 16
  Copperline
  4:21
  5.0 ★
• 17
  Country Road (live)
  5:39
• 18
  Secret o’ Life (live)
  3:42

More by James Taylor

Sweet Baby James

Sweet Baby James 1970

Before This World

Before This World 2015

Original Album Classics

Original Album Classics 2010

Live at the Troubadour

Live at the Troubadour 2010

Other Covers

Other Covers 2009

Covers

Covers 2008

Release credits

• Andrew Gold
  background vocals [10], reed organ [10]
• Bill Lazerus
  engineer [1-2]
• Bobby West
  double bass [2]
• Byron Berline
  fiddle [10]
• Carlos Vega
  drums (drum set) [17]
• Carly Simon
  background vocals [5, 7]
• Carole King
  piano [1-3]
• Chris Darrow
  violin [1]
• Clarence McDonald
  Rhodes piano [5, 7], instrument [7], keyboard [11-12], piano [5, 8]
• Clifford Carter
  keyboard [17-18]
• Dan Dugmore
  electric guitar [13], pedal steel guitar [9-10]
• Danny Kortchmar
  acoustic guitar [4], congas [3-4], electric guitar [5-6, 8], guitar [11-12]
• David Campbell
  conductor [12], strings [12]
• David Crosby
  background vocals [6]
• David Lasley
  additional [15]
• Don Grolnick
  electric piano [13], organ [13], piano [17], producer [15-16]
• Don Rodenbach
  assistant [15]
• Gayle Levant
  harp [6]
• Gene Page
  conductor [13], strings [13]
• Graham Nash
  background vocals [6]
• Herb Pedersen
  background vocals [9]
• J.D. Souther
  vocal [13]
• James A. Farber
  mix [15-16], recording [15-16]
• James Taylor
  acoustic guitar [1-4, 6-12, 17-18], background vocals [3-4, 7, 9, 11-12], electric guitar [6], lead vocals [1-2, 7-12, 17-18], vocal [13]
• Jim Keltner
  drums (drum set) [5]
• Jimmy Johnson
  bass [17]
• John London
  electric bass guitar [1]
• Joni Mitchell
  background vocals [3-4]
• Lani Groves
  additional [15]
• Leah Kunkel
  background vocals [11]
• Lee Herschberg
  engineer [5-6, 8], mix [5-6]
• Leland Sklar
  bass [5-6], bass guitar [3-4, 7, 11-13], electric bass guitar [8-10]
• Lenny Waronker
  producer [5-6, 8]
• Michael Landau
  electric guitar [17]
• Milt Holland
  percussion [6]
• Nick de Caro
  conductor [7], organ [7], strings [7]
• Niko Bolas
  assistant [13]
• Peter Asher
  cabasa [11], producer [1-4, 8-13], tambourine [11]
• Red Rhodes
  pedal steel guitar [1]
• Richard Sanford Orshoff
  engineer [3-4]
• Rick Marotta
  drums (drum set) [13]
• Russ Kunkel
  cabasa [4], congas [4], drums (drum set) [1-8, 11-12], percussion [7, 11-12], shakers [6], tambourine [5]
• Russ Titelman
  producer [5-6, 8]
• Val Garay
  engineer [9-10], mix [8, 11-12], recording [11-13]
• Victor Feldman
  tubular bells [7], vibraphone [7]
• Waddy Wachtel
  acoustic guitar [13]
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