Flag [Remaster]

Performer: James Taylor (Soft Rock)
Artist: Carly Simon; Graham Nash
Producer: Peter Asher
Distributor: Sony Music Distribution (

Notes: Also available in a 3-pack with JT and DAD LOVES HIS WORK. Personnel includes: James Taylor (vocals, guitar); Danny Kortchmar (electric guitar); Don Grolnick (electric piano, organ); Leland Sklar (bass); Russell Kunkel (drums, percussion). Recorded at The Sound Factory, Los Angeles, California. All tracks have been digitally remastered. This is a hybrid Super Audio CD playable on both regular and Super Audio CD players. Personnel: James Taylor (vocals, guitar); Danny Kortchmar, Waddy Wachtel (electric guitar); Louise Schulman (violin); Jesse Levy (cello); Don Grolnick (piano, clavinet, harmonium); Ralph Schuckett (organ); Leland Sklar (bass); Russell Kunkel (drums, timbales, cowbell); Steve Forman (timbales, cowbell); Peter Asher, Carly Simon, Alex Taylor, Graham Nash (background vocals). Recorded at The Sound Factory, Los Angeles, California. FLAG is a compendium of James Taylor's various styles. As always, melodic hooks, catchy phrases and precise musical turns abound. On "Company Man" Taylor takes another look at his uneasy relationship with fame and the music business. "Johnnie Comes Back" is a dark little rocker about some particularly nasty goings on. While he was in the rock neighborhood J.T. even manages to prance and preen a little in his danceable raveup of the Beatles' "Day Tripper." "Rainy Day Man" is revisited from his first record and the classic Goffin-King "Up On The Roof" is covered with a new vigor as James makes it completely his own. Especially moving is the sad and beautiful "Millworker," written for the Broadway musical "Working" and based on the Studs Terkel book of the same name.

James Taylor was the archetype for the gentle, inward-looking singer/songwriter movement of the early '70s. The easy lilt and timbre of Taylor's voice belies the complex emotional content of his songs, which aren't merely carefree folk-based odes, but instead look unflinchingly at a flawed man's journey through life. It's a tribute to his knack for making great pop records that he managed a long, decade-plus string of big hits. Taylor remained relevant long after his impressive run of top 40 hits, recording numerous million-selling records in the '90s & '00s and winning multiple Grammys.

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