Covers

Editorial Review

Covers is the cd that James Taylor fans have been anticipating for years. Recorded live with his full band in a barn in Massachusetts that was transformed into a studio, the album is a treasury of songs he has performed live over the years, but never recorded. It is an American songbook of tunes made famous by artists as varied Buddy Holly, The Dixie Chicks, The Temptations, Leonard Cohen, George Jones and Eddie Cochran, but embraced and interpreted by James Taylor in a way that makes each one his own. It is a significant work by one of the greatest artists of his generation, which pays tribute to classic American songs from Broadway to Nashville, Detroit to Memphis and across all boundaries. Covers is in itself a classic James Taylor recording.

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0
• Boring
  sounds like he made this up the day before the cd was to be released. Very boring stuff, aside from wichita lineman which is decent. Just wasnt appealing to me. no real hits at all. Just an opinion of course.
• Disappointing
  I AM one of those people who look forward to Taylor's new releases. But this one just didn't do it for me. He's done a great job with covers over the years, but with the exception on one track on this release, I thought he just didn't bring anything new to these.
• Pure Dreck
  So tell me, do you like the song "Summertime Blues" played by either Eddie Cochran, The Who, or Blue Cheer? How about Leonard Cohen's "Suzanne"? Or Buddy Holly's "Not Fade Away"? If you want to hear them butchered to the point where all the passion of the original recordings is replaced by campfire sweetness, then you should get this album. Otherwise stay far far away. I'll admit that I do like some of James Taylor's songs from early in his career, but the man should not be within ten miles of "Summertime... more info
• Vinyl lost art?
  Is it likely that the process of engineering and pressing a high-quality LP a lost art? Have we forever lost the warmth and dynamic range of a state-of-the-art vinyl record? For that matter, is the state-of-the-art in vinyl recording something less than it once was?
  First the good news. This is classic JT singing HIS favorites. His iconic voice resounds smoothly and strongly in his rendition of the album COVER songs in this record.
  Now the bad news. The audio quality of this vinyl recording is... more info

Tracks:

1. It's Growing
2. (I'm a) Road Runner
3. Wichita Lineman
4. Why Baby Why
5. Some Days You Gotta Dance
6. Seminole Wind
7. Suzanne
8. Hound Dog
9. Sadie
10. On Broadway
11. Summertime Blues
12. Not Fade Away

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