James Taylor

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.

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.

I needed my parents. I needed to go home. My dad actually heard me on the phone. I called him in North Carolina from from New York, and the band had been broken up for about a month, and he could hear that I wasn't well, and he said, you just stay right there. He got my address. He said, you stay right there. I'll be there in 10 hours, and he was.

I needed my parents. I needed to go home. My dad actually heard me on the phone. I called him in North Carolina from from New York, and the band had been broken up for about a month, and he could hear that I wasn't well, and he said, you just stay right there. He got my address. He said, you stay right there. I'll be there in 10 hours, and he was.

I needed my parents. I needed to go home. My dad actually heard me on the phone. I called him in North Carolina from from New York, and the band had been broken up for about a month, and he could hear that I wasn't well, and he said, you just stay right there. He got my address. He said, you stay right there. I'll be there in 10 hours, and he was.

I just sat there for 10 hours, and my dad showed up in a station wagon and took me home. That's one of my, you know, my treasures, that little, that memory, that thing he did. I wrote a song about it called Jump Up Behind Me.

I just sat there for 10 hours, and my dad showed up in a station wagon and took me home. That's one of my, you know, my treasures, that little, that memory, that thing he did. I wrote a song about it called Jump Up Behind Me.

I just sat there for 10 hours, and my dad showed up in a station wagon and took me home. That's one of my, you know, my treasures, that little, that memory, that thing he did. I wrote a song about it called Jump Up Behind Me.

This land is a lovely green. It reminds me of my own home. Such children I've seldom seen, even in my own home. The sky's so bright and clear.

This land is a lovely green. It reminds me of my own home. Such children I've seldom seen, even in my own home. The sky's so bright and clear.

This land is a lovely green. It reminds me of my own home. Such children I've seldom seen, even in my own home. The sky's so bright and clear.

And I think that that's, obviously, you want success. You want to be heard. You want to be listened to and encouraged.

And I think that that's, obviously, you want success. You want to be heard. You want to be listened to and encouraged.

And I think that that's, obviously, you want success. You want to be heard. You want to be listened to and encouraged.

But it's always that moment of going from the private thing, and in the case of a singer-songwriter who doesn't have a band who's sort of going there with him, sort of a posse or a crowd or a tribe that you're running with and doing it with, when you're doing it alone and by yourself, it is a very strange transition to make.

But it's always that moment of going from the private thing, and in the case of a singer-songwriter who doesn't have a band who's sort of going there with him, sort of a posse or a crowd or a tribe that you're running with and doing it with, when you're doing it alone and by yourself, it is a very strange transition to make.

But it's always that moment of going from the private thing, and in the case of a singer-songwriter who doesn't have a band who's sort of going there with him, sort of a posse or a crowd or a tribe that you're running with and doing it with, when you're doing it alone and by yourself, it is a very strange transition to make.

I wrote songs about that too, Hey Mister That's Me Up on the Jukebox or Fading Away or Company Man. Those are songs about the difficulty of starting off with a very private and personal thing. As my friend David Crosby says, the first album you make is the result of 10 years of work, then you've got a year to make the next one.

I wrote songs about that too, Hey Mister That's Me Up on the Jukebox or Fading Away or Company Man. Those are songs about the difficulty of starting off with a very private and personal thing. As my friend David Crosby says, the first album you make is the result of 10 years of work, then you've got a year to make the next one.

I wrote songs about that too, Hey Mister That's Me Up on the Jukebox or Fading Away or Company Man. Those are songs about the difficulty of starting off with a very private and personal thing. As my friend David Crosby says, the first album you make is the result of 10 years of work, then you've got a year to make the next one.