![]() UDiscover Music is operated by Universal Music Group (UMG). We don’t want to lose this stuff.”įor the latest music news and exclusive features, check out uDiscover Music. It’s a high water mark in terms of the sophistication of popular song, and they need to be part of people’s musical vocabulary, still. “It’s more important than just a historical statement about the culture in 1940. “This is the music that informed my vocabulary and the music of Paul Simon, Lennon & McCartney, and clearly Bob Dylan,” he said. Taylor enjoyed the opportunity on American Standard to put some revered songs in a contemporary context, and to emphasize the role they played in seeding the modern pop era. “But then it’s going to be Jackson and I going out this summer, so we're looking forward to that.” ‘It’s a high water mark’ “Bonnie and I have done a couple of years together, which has been so great, and she and I are going to do a tour of Canada,” he said. Sadly, coronavirus put paid to all of those shows. That, and ‘God Bless The Child’ and ‘Ol’ Man River,’ those are songs that had some depth to them in their time and had things associated with them that were heavy.”Īt the time of the interview, Taylor was considering which of the tracks on American Standard to add to his set on upcoming tourswith Bonnie Raitt, in April and May, and Jackson Browne from May to July. “A song about teaching children to hate is really effective, and it’s a killer. “That’s from South Pacific,” says the singer. One of the album’s most poignant moments comes on one of its lesser-known selections, a beautifully simple version of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “You’ve Got To Be Carefully Taught.” His mother would take him and his siblings to see the such famous musicals as South Pacific and My Fair Lady in New York. In addition to hearing many of these songs growing up, Taylor was sometimes able to experience them on stage. Even when it’s someone else's song, 50% of it is still my process.” “So it really is born out to me that when people think of me as doing other people's music, it’s really putting it through a musical process. We finished 17 of them and we put 14 on the album. ![]() ![]() We ended up with about 20 songs that we cut basic tracks on. The ones that worked clearly worked, and the other ones were just pushed to the side. ![]() “I brought them to John Pizzarelli, who was my collaborator and co-producer, and just in the process of teaching them to John and running them through with him, all of these half-baked versions of the songs sorted themselves out. The Lovely Linda: A Night At Apple, Then Paul McCartney Gets Married.The Lathums Score Second Consecutive UK No.1 With ‘From Nothing To A Little Bit More’.‘A Beard Of Stars’: Marc Bolan Paves The Way For Superstardom.“The selection process was that we played the songs that I knew already on the guitar, since these were songs from my family’s record collection in North Carolina in the 50s and 60s. “It’s basically a guitar album,” he said. Speaking to us on his latest return visit to London – where he spent significant time in the late 1960s while signed to The Beatles’ Apple label – the cherished troubadour explained the process of reshaping these songs in his inimitable style. 4, as the follow-up to 2015’s Before This World, his first-ever No.1 album in his home country. It included 14 time-honoured American songs such as “My Blue Heaven,” “Teach Me Tonight,” and “God Bless The Child.” The set debuted on the Billboard 200 chart dated March 14 at No. The February 28 release was the realisation of a long-held ambition for Taylor.
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