James Taylor

I don't know what happened to that damn cello. It's got to be around somewhere. I hope someone's playing it.

I wrote a song called, when I was 13 or 14, called Roll River Roll. It's pretty awful. I can play it for you.

I wrote a song called, when I was 13 or 14, called Roll River Roll. It's pretty awful. I can play it for you.

I wrote a song called, when I was 13 or 14, called Roll River Roll. It's pretty awful. I can play it for you.

No, it hasn't been widely covered. And the fact that nobody here tonight has ever heard it is proof of how lame it was. You know, it was really... This is something called Travis picking that we all learned.

No, it hasn't been widely covered. And the fact that nobody here tonight has ever heard it is proof of how lame it was. You know, it was really... This is something called Travis picking that we all learned.

No, it hasn't been widely covered. And the fact that nobody here tonight has ever heard it is proof of how lame it was. You know, it was really... This is something called Travis picking that we all learned.

Sort of a walking thumb. And then the one or two fingers thrown in.

Sort of a walking thumb. And then the one or two fingers thrown in.

Sort of a walking thumb. And then the one or two fingers thrown in.

Roll, river, roll Long as you can be Longest river I've done seen Rolling to the sea

Roll, river, roll Long as you can be Longest river I've done seen Rolling to the sea

Roll, river, roll Long as you can be Longest river I've done seen Rolling to the sea

Went like that.

Went like that.

Went like that.

I guess I was 19 when I went to London and got my recording contract with Apple Records, with the Beatles. And that was such an amazing reversal of fortune for me. That was the door that opened and let me through to the life that I've lived ever since. It was my big break. I'd been at it since, you know, when I came to New York in 1966, and instead of graduating high school, I came here and I

I guess I was 19 when I went to London and got my recording contract with Apple Records, with the Beatles. And that was such an amazing reversal of fortune for me. That was the door that opened and let me through to the life that I've lived ever since. It was my big break. I'd been at it since, you know, when I came to New York in 1966, and instead of graduating high school, I came here and I

I guess I was 19 when I went to London and got my recording contract with Apple Records, with the Beatles. And that was such an amazing reversal of fortune for me. That was the door that opened and let me through to the life that I've lived ever since. It was my big break. I'd been at it since, you know, when I came to New York in 1966, and instead of graduating high school, I came here and I

I started with Danny Kortschmar, a band called The Flying Machine. It was ill-fated, and we had problems, typical problems, and never got our recording deal that we needed. We signed one, but the people who signed it, they couldn't follow through with it. And after that fell to pieces in 66, when I was 18, I went home to North Carolina to recover a little bit. I needed soup. I needed a bed.