Warner Bros. Albums: 1970-1976 (Vinyl) – James Taylor

Rhino pays tribute to Taylor with a new collection that introduces newly remastered versions of all his Warner Bros. albums. THE COMPLETE WARNER BROS. ALBUMS: 1970-1976 will be available on July 19, 2019 from Rhino as a 6-LP set. This collection brings several albums back into print on vinyl for the first time in many years.

Each album in the set has been remastered, a process overseen by Peter Asher, who signed Taylor to the Beatles’ Apple Records label in 1968, worked as his manager for 25 years, and originally produced several of these albums.

In the collection’s liner notes Asher writes: “Revisiting these albums several decades later has been revelatory, nostalgic, and exciting. I have heard bits and pieces frequently over the years, of course, but listening with concentration and in detail to each of the original tapes without interruption has been a thrilling luxury.”

THE COMPLETE WARNER BROS. ALBUMS: 1970-1976 includes: Sweet Baby James (1970), Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon (1971), One Man Dog (1972), Walking Man (1974), Gorilla (1975), and In the Pocket (1976).

The collection is filled with some of Taylor’s most iconic and beloved songs like “Sweet Baby James,” “Fire And Rain,” “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely Tonight,” “Walking Man,” “How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You),” “Mexico,” “Shower The People” and Carole King’s “You’ve Got A Friend,” the latter which was Taylor’s first #1 hit and earned him his first Grammy® Award (Best Male Pop Vocal) in 1971.

The collection also offers up some spectacular deep cuts like his acoustic lullaby “You Can Close Your Eyes” from Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon; the 10-minute song cycle that closes One Dog Man; “Rock ‘n’ Roll Music Is Now” from Walking Man, which features backing vocals by Paul and Linda McCartney; and “Don’t Be Sad ‘Cause Your Sun Is Down” from In the Pocket, a song Taylor wrote and recorded with Stevie Wonder.

Track List

1. Sweet Baby James (1970)
2. Sweet Baby James
3. Lo And Behold’
4. Sunny Skies
5. Steamroller
6. Country Road
7. Oh Susannah
8. Fire And Rain
9. Blossom
10. Anywhere Like Heaven
11. Oh Baby Don’t You Loose Your Lip On Me
12. Suite For 20 G
13. Mud Slide Slim And The Blue Horizon (1971)
14. Love Has Brought Me Around
15. You’ve Got A Friend
16. Places In My Past
17. Riding On A Railroad
18. Soldiers
19. Mud Slide Slim
20. Hey Mister That’s Me Up On The Jukebox
21. You Can Close Your Eyes
22. Machine Gun Kelly
23. Long Ago And Far Away
24. Let Me Ride
25. Highway Song
26. Isn’t It Nice To Be Home Again
27. One Man Dog (1972)
28. One Man Parade
29. Nobody But You
30. Chili Dog
31. Fool For You
32. Instrumental I
33. New Tune
34. Back On The Street Again
35. Don’t Let Me Be Lonely Tonight
36. Woh Don’t You Know
37. One Morning In May
38. Instrumental II
39. Someone
40. Hymn
41. Fanfare
42. Little David
43. Mescalito
44. Dance
45. Jig
46. Walking Man (1974)
47. Walking Man
48. Rock ‘n’ Roll Is Music Now
49. Let It All Fall Down
50. Me And My Guitar
51. Daddy’s Baby
52. Ain’t No Song
53. Hello Old Friend
54. Migration
55. The Promised Land
56. Fading Away
57. Gorilla (1975)
58. Mexico
59. Music
60. How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)
61. Wandering
62. Gorilla
63. You Make It Easy
64. I Was A Fool To Care
65. Lighthouse
66. Angry Blues
67. Love Songs
68. Sarah Maria
69. In The Pocket (1976)
70. Shower The People
71. A Junkie’s Lament
72. Money Machine
73. Slow Burning Love
74. Everybody Has The Blues
75. Daddy’s All Gone
76. Woman’s Gotta Have It
77. Captain Jim’s Drunken Dream
78. Don’t Be Sad ‘Cause Your Sun Is Down
79. Nothing Like A Hundred Miles
80. Family Man
81. Golden Moments