James Taylor Credits Cold Weather For Hot Band Sound On 'Covers'
James Taylor says the sound on his new hit album Covers is due to his band being locked down in his Massachusetts studio during the bleakest days of January: "There was something about the fact that it was blue and frozen outside, the landscape was stripped bare, the snow was up to your ankles and it was fifteen degrees outside. And inside this barn, it's warm, it's humid, part of the thing was being closed-in and surrounded. It never occurred to me, I never thought to think to myself, 'What did the season have to do with the recording?'But it was great to be holed up in the wintertime -- and woodshedding as they say, y'know?"
Taylor's Covers album debuted on The Billboard 200 album charts at Number Four, and features such favorites as Glen Campbell's "Wichita Lineman," Buddy Holly's "Not Fade Away," Wilson Pickett's "In The Midnight Hour," the Drifters' "On Broadway," and others.
By: Howie Edelson
James Taylor, one of America's greatest singer-songwriters, discusses his latest album, "Covers." He tells WSJ's Chris Farley what prompted him to cover songs by other people and what he thinks of today's music.
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