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Family First: Danny Kortchmar on The Immediate Family’s Brotherly Bonds

February 27, 2024February 27, 2024 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments Billy Joel, Carole King, Danny Kortchmar, David Crosby, Don Henley, Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, Keith Richards, Lee Sklar, Leland Sklar, Linda Ronstadt, Neil Young, Quarto Valley Records, Russ Kunkel, Skin in the Game, Steve Postell, Stevie Nicks, The Immediate Family, Waddy Wachtel

“We’ve earned the right not to have to be judged by anyone”

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Pop Rock Soul 

When the Morning Comes: Hall & Oates’ Abandoned Luncheonette at 50

November 3, 2023November 3, 2023 Robin E. Cook 2 Comments 1973, 50th anniversary, Abandoned Luncheonette, America, Arif Mardin, Daryl Hall, Daryl Hall and John Oates, James Taylor, John Oates, Seals and Crofts, She's Gone

Food for thought on an overlooked classic

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Music Journalism Pop Rock 

Pop Top 40: Top LPs & Tapes for Week Ending January 27, 1973

January 30, 2023January 30, 2023 T.A. Inskeep 1 Comment Al Green, Carly Simon, Carole King, Curtis Mayfield, Helen Reddy, James Taylor, Jethro Tull, Joni Mitchell, Los Babys, Neil Diamond, Pop Top 40, Rolling Stones, Slade, Stevie Wonder, The Moody Blues

50 years ago, soft rock was dominating the chart

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Music Journalism 

Famous Quotes Vol. 35: September 2022

September 30, 2022 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments 2022, Famous Quotes, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Holly Johnson, James Taylor, Jim James, Lemmy, Motörhead, My Morning Jacket, September, Shane MacGowan, The Pogues

Veteran rock critic Jim Sullivan looks back on a career of epic interviews in the latest installment of his inquisitive column

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Folk North Americana Rock Soul 

The Secret Stash of Earl McGrath

August 7, 2022August 7, 2022 Rev. Keith A. Gordon 0 Comments Andy Warhol, Annie Leibovitz, David Johansen, Earl McGrath, Hall and Oates, James Taylor, Jim Carroll, Joan Didion, Joe Hagan, Joni Mitchell, Mick Jagger, Pat Thomas, Rolling Stones

Diving into the treasured closet of a music biz bon vivant

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Pop 

Carly Simon: A Top 10 Album Guide

June 25, 2021June 27, 2021 Stephanie Hernandez 1 Comment Carly Simon, James Taylor, Klaus Voorman, Linda McCartney, Paul McCartney, Richard Perry, Van Dyke Parks, You're So Vain

Celebrating the birthday of a Bronx original with a look back at her best studio work

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Music Journalism Remembrance 

All You Need to Know About Van Halen by Someone Who Was an Actual Teenager in the 1970s

October 9, 2020October 19, 2020 Tim Sommer 0 Comments Billy Joel, Blondie, Bread, CHEAP TRICK, CSN, James Taylor, Kansas, Kraftwerk, Led Zeppelin, Little River Band, Neu!, Styx, The Ramones, Van Halen, Wilko Johnson, Wire

A remembrance of the era that gave us Eddie Van Halen from someone on the ground during their ascension to superstardom

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Stranger Things: Randy Newman’s 12 Songs Turns 50

April 29, 2020 Mitchell Cohen 0 Comments 12 Songs, 1970, Cat Stevens, Elton John, Harry Nilsson, James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, Ladies of the Canyon, Mona Bone Jakon, Moondance, Norman Lear, Randy Newman, Sweet Baby James, Van Morrison

A quarter century before meeting Woody and Buzz, the L.A. songwriter walked the razor’s edge of sarcasm on his second studio LP

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Folk Pop 

Happy Birthday James Taylor

March 12, 2019March 16, 2019 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments Apple Records, James Taylor, The Beatles

A look at his seminal self-titled debut for Apple

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