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Artist: James Taylor
Label: Rhino / Wea
Category: Music

List Price: ~~$18.98~~
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Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5

MPN: 73837
UPC: 081227383725
EAN: 0081227383725
ASIN: B00007IT8S

Release Date: April 8, 2003
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Tracks:

•	Something In The Way She Moves
•	Sweet Baby James
•	Fire And Rain
•	Country Road
•	You've Got A Friend
•	You Can Close Your Eyes
•	Long Ago And Far Away
•	Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight
•	Walking Man
•	How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)
•	Mexico
•	Shower The People
•	Golden Moments
•	Steamroller (Live)
•	Carolina In My Mind
•	Handy Man
•	Your Smiling Face
•	Up On The Roof
•	Only A Dream In Rio
•	Bitter Sweet (Previously Unreleased)

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Editorial Reviews:

Amazon.com
Any good singer can interpret a song, but it takes a stylist to make it his own. James Taylor is a stylist. This 20-track anthology obviously can't chronicle much more than the hits and high points of Taylor's career, but it nonetheless captures the artistic essence of a performer who's become a virtual synonym for "singer-songwriter" since his emergence in the late '60s. A lot of ink has been spilled ruminating about Taylor's role in soothing a '60s-burned generation, but given his own well-known demons (depression, addiction) his gentle voice often sounds like the physician wisely healing himself. His muse seems fully formed from the opening "Something in the Way She Moves," a track cut for the Beatles' Apple label in late `68 (and one that seems to share some symbiotic relationship with George Harrison's own classic "Something" from the period), its tone at once familiar and inviting--if ripe for a few decades of parody--as it wends its way from his seminal early '70s hits through a slate of later originals, R&B ("How Sweet It Is," "Handy Man") and pop ("Up On the Roof") covers. Tellingly, he delivers those chestnuts with an offhand confidence and illumination that makes them his own, a sense that informs even his jazz and Brazilian ("Only a Dream a Rio") flirtations. The set's newly recorded bonus cut, John Sheldon's "Bittersweet," is a pleasant pop confection that showcases Taylor's knack for being laconic and upbeat in the same breath. --Jerry McCulley

Album Description
20 of his greatest singles and most popular album tracks released on Apple, Warner Bros. and Columbia/Sony. Slipcase. 2003.

Album Details
Packaged with UK Only Slipcase Artwork.

Customer Reviews: Read 74 more reviews...

2 out of 5 stars

Great Material Ruined by Excess Compression August 2, 2008
this cd has almost everything you could want from a J.T. best of, however the sound is extremely loud...almost unplayable, if you spin it for longer than 20 minutes, you will have a headache and frayed nerves....I had to get rid of mine for that reason; also, the swearing in "steamroller blues" is edited, what the hell for?

5 out of 5 stars

Great CD July 27, 2008
The best of james Taylor makes me smile and think positive thoughts ! Great CD

5 out of 5 stars

James Taylor the Best June 9, 2008
Can't do better than Best of James, unless you see him live.
prefect for everyday misic in 50 something home!

4 out of 5 stars

The title says it all! March 12, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

First,I'd like to wish James Taylor happy 60th birthday. This is a very good collection consuming the contents of his GREATEST HITS package with a few others from his Columbia Records era(Taylor has recorded on the label since 1977). This disc could use HER TOWN TOO(duet with J.D. Souther on 1981's DAD LOVES HIS WORK).

3 out of 5 stars

Discovery March 6, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful

I have just discovered the many things James Taylor writes and sings about. I got this album to get a copy of "How Sweet It Is" and found several other songs I like almost as much.

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