I first heard "Fire And Rain" 37 years ago. I liked the music and I listened to the words. They felt real, like a real story that someone I knew was trying to tell me. And of course they were. It was not much later that I found out that this was a characteristic of all of James' songs. They were all stories he wanted to tell to anyone who would listen. Five years ago when I had cancer, I had to lie perfectly still for 90 minutes while I was PETscanned. My choice of music to listen to - my only comfort for an uncomfortable hour and a half - was "Never Die Young" by James Taylor. I didn't. That's my story of what made James and his stories, sung with his perfect phrasing to his sweet, melodically inventive music, a Lovemark to me.
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Sweet, melodically investive music
James Taylor
11 February 2005
I first heard "Fire And Rain" 37 years ago. I liked the music and I listened to the words. They felt real, like a real story that someone I knew was trying to tell me. And of course they were. It was not much later that I found out that this was a characteristic of all of James' songs. They were all stories he wanted to tell to anyone who would listen. Five years ago when I had cancer, I had to lie perfectly still for 90 minutes while I was PETscanned. My choice of music to listen to - my only comfort for an uncomfortable hour and a half - was "Never Die Young" by James Taylor. I didn't. That's my story of what made James and his stories, sung with his perfect phrasing to his sweet, melodically inventive music, a Lovemark to me.