James Taylor
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Apr 2025
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The New Yorker Radio Hour · From the Archive: James Taylor Will Teach you Guitar · 18 Dec 2024
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Well, there's something in the way she moves Looks my way or calls my name That seems to leave this troubled world behind And if I'm feeling down and blue, or crippled by some foolish game, she always seems to make me change my mind. I feel fine anytime that she's around me now. She's around me now, almost all the time.
I'm well, you can tell She's been with me now She's been with me now Quite a long, long time And I feel fine Every now and then the things that I deem don't lose their meaning And I find myself convening into places where I should never let me go
She has the power to go No one else can find me And silently remind me Of the happiness and good times that I know, you know Well, I guess I just got to know them It isn't what she's got to say How she thinks of where she's been To me the words are nice the way they sound. I like to hear them best that way. Doesn't much matter what they mean. She says them mostly just calm it down.
I feel fine anytime that she is around me now. She's around me now I mean just about all the time If I'm well you can tell That she's been with me now She's been with me now Quite a long, quite a long time Quite a long, long time And I feel fine
Let's get a guitar.
Get a guitar and plug it in.
Thank you. I bring two in case. These are Olsen guitars made by a guy in Minneapolis, St. Paul, and he managed in 1985 to get one into a hotel room that I was checking into in Minneapolis, and I've never looked back. So this is the first one, and this is the most recent one he built, so...
Well, it's true. I met Miles Davis once up on 94th Street, and it was, you know, it's one of those things that you take with you as a great, the great man, indeed, that he noticed me enough to mention, he said, you know, D is your key.
That's good.
Actually, before we go any further, I sing this song at home too. And I've actually more and more recently gotten used to singing it with my dear wife, Kim, who is here. And I'm going to pull it. She's going to pull me up. Pull her up on stage. She's here somewhere. Yes, she is here.
When the sun is surely sinking
The moon is slowly rising So this whole world must still be spinning around And I am still alone
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