James Taylor

Forty-five years after charting his first album, Sweet Baby James is at the top with "Before This World."

James Taylor's new album, Before This World, is his first collection of original songs in 13 years, though he wasn't exactly taking it easy during that stretch — he ...

It's been a while,” James Taylor writes with typical wry humor in the liner notes to Before This World, his first album of new material in 13 years, released by ...

Purity of expression -- it's a rare and precious commodity in pop music, particularly in singing. After more than a decade of juiced-up vocal showdowns on TV, and more years of Top 40 crooners wallowing in melisma and melodrama, it is nothing short of a relief to hear a simple, moving lyric relayed simply and movingly