James Taylor - Walking Man - 1974 /

James Taylor - Walking ManЖанр: Folk Rock / Soft Rock / Country
Страна-производитель диска: USA
Год издания диска: 1974 / 2011
Издатель (лейбл): Audio Fidelity
Номер по каталогу: AFZ 109
Страна: USA
Аудиокодек: FLAC (*.flac)
Тип рипа: image+.cue
Битрейт аудио: (lossy + lossless)
Продолжительность: 34:08
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: даТреклист:
1. Walking Man
2. Rock 'n' Roll Is Music Now
3. Let It All Fall Down
4. Me and My Guitar
5. Daddy's Baby
6. Ain't No Song
7. Hello Old Friend
8. Migration
9. The Promised Land
10. Fading Away

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Walking Man, James Taylor's fifth album finds him at a transitional period. Released on June 1, 1974, it was not as successful as his previous efforts, only reaching #13 on the Billboard Album Chart. It is also his only studio album not only being certified Gold by the RIAA. The song Walking Man, released as the album's first single, failed to crack the Billboard chart at all, but nevertheless stands today as an often prized fan favorite.

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This album is the first that has the contemporary JT feel to it, his sound and songwriting had matured. He still delivers the classic sound developed back in the Sweet Baby James era but the one man and his guitar format has given way to heavier orchestration and use of a horn section that gives the general sound more of a bite. The production is precise and manicured and always features Taylor's unique guitar style and at the center of each song is Taylor's friendly, vulnerable voice.
James alternates between ballads with strings, ballads with horns and ballads with himself, as well as jazz and folk. There is a strong jazzy feeling on the whole album and sometimes, the jazz takes risky, surprising and beautiful turns. Also included is the tender lullaby Daddy's Baby, written in honor of Taylor's newly born daughter. Taylor delivers Chuck Berry's 1964 hit, The Promised Land, with understated fidelity and joining James on his most unabashed rock effort to date, Rock and Roll Is Music Now is Carly Simon and Paul and Linda McCartney. McCartney was reprising a guest appearance he made on Taylor's very first record, released in 1968 on the Beatles' Apple label.Taylor has an understated way with a lyric but always hits his mark, which is the listener's heart.
...possesses that peculiar Taylor charm and intimacy that few other artists can touch.
... an album of sure, truth-telling merit and no-apologies intensity.
Walking Man marked James Taylor's 1974 return from the first of many sabbaticals that would dot his long recording career. Sweet Baby James had stepped up from blue jeans and work shirts; both Taylor's sound and songwriting had matured. The production is precise and manicured and always features Taylor's unique guitar style. In the center of each song, resting comfortably upon that trusty old guitar is Taylor's friendly, vulnerable voice.
Taylor has an understated way with a lyric but always hits his mark, which is the listener's heart. Walking Man features the golden autumn melancholy of the title track and Let It All Fall Down, a rumination on the rapid unraveling of both Richard Nixon's presidency and what was perhaps the last delicate layer of the country's innocence (the record was released in the spring of 1974, by late summer Nixon had resigned).

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Personnel
James Taylor — guitar, vocals
Kenny Ascher — keyboards
Kenny Berger — baritone saxophone
Michael Brecker — tenor saxophone
Randy Brecker — trumpet
Peter Gordon — french horn
Don Grolnick — keyboards
Howard Johnson — tuba
Ralph MacDonald — percussion
George Marge — oboe
Rick Marotta — drums
Linda McCartney — vocals
Paul McCartney — bass, backing vocals
Hugh McCracken — guitar, harmonica, backing vocals
Andy Muson — bass
Gene Orloff — strings
Barry Rogers — trombone
Alan Rubin — trumpet
Ralph Schuckett — keyboards
Carly Simon — vocals
David Spinozza — guitar
George Young — alto saxophone