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James Taylor: Best Live

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  • Artist: James Taylor
  • Rating: StarStarStarHalf Star
  • Release Date: June 21, 1994
  • Type: Compilation (best of), Live
  • Genre: Rock

Review

Best Live is a 12-track, single-disc abridgement of the 30-track, double-disc (Live). The set focuses on songs dating from James Taylor's Warner Brothers years, including "Fire and Rain," "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)," and "Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight" (but not, curiously, "You've Got a Friend"). It also contains the Columbia hits "Handy Man" and "Your Smiling Face." The songs are well-performed, but most of this material is available in its original recordings on Greatest Hits. ~ William Ruhlmann, Rovi

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Live
Live album by James Taylor
Released August 10, 1993 (1993-08-10)
Recorded November 1992 (1992-11)
Genre Rock
Length 123:31
Label Columbia
Producer Don Grolnick, George Massenburg
James Taylor chronology
New Moon Shine
(1991)		 Live
(1993)		 Hourglass
(1997)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4/5 stars[1]

Live is singer-songwriter James Taylor's fifteenth album, and first live album. Released in 1993, this double CD presents selections from 14 shows during a November 1992 tour. Live peaked at number 20 on Billboard magazine's Billboard 200.[citation needed]

A single-album version of highlights of this double album called Best Live was released on June 21, 1994.

Contents

Track listing

All songs by James Taylor unless otherwise noted.

Disc one

No. Title Length
1. "Sweet Baby James"   4:13
2. "Traffic Jam"   2:10
3. "Handy Man" (Otis Blackwell, Jimmy Jones) 3:31
4. "Your Smiling Face"   3:03
5. "Secret O' Life"   3:45
6. "Shed a Little Light"   4:32
7. "Everybody Has the Blues"   2:33
8. "Steamroller Blues"   5:30
9. "Mexico"   3:32
10. "Millworker"   4:25
11. "Country Road"   5:44
12. "Fire and Rain"   4:44
13. "Shower the People"   4:43
14. "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)" (Holland, Dozier, Holland) 7:29
15. "New Hymn" (Reynolds Price, J. Taylor) 3:00

Disc two

No. Title Length
1. "Walking Man"   4:35
2. "Riding on a Railroad"   2:41
3. "Something in the Way She Moves"   3:59
4. "Sun on the Moon"   3:54
5. "Up on the Roof" (Gerry Goffin, Carole King) 4:10
6. "Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight"   3:37
7. "She Thinks I Still Care" (Dickey Lee) 3:28
8. "Copperline" (R. Price, J. Taylor) 4:43
9. "Slap Leather"   2:11
10. "Only One"   4:41
11. "You Make It Easy"   5:05
12. "Carolina in My Mind"   5:04
13. "I Will Follow"   4:14
14. "You've Got a Friend" (Carole King) 5:09
15. "That Lonesome Road" (Don Grolnick, J. Taylor) 2:46

Best Live track listing

All songs written and composed by James Taylor, except where noted. 

No. Title Length
1. "Sweet Baby James"   4:13
2. "Handy Man" (O. Blackwell, J. Jones) 3:34
3. "Your Smiling Face"   2:53
4. "Shed a Little Light"   4:17
5. "Steamroller Blues"   5:24
6. "Mexico"   3:15
7. "Walking Man"   4:23
8. "Country Road"   5:38
9. "Fire and Rain"   4:39
10. "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)" (Holland, Dozier, Holland) 6:58
11. "Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight"   3:10
12. "Shower the People"   5:12

Personnel

References

  1. ^ "Allmusic review". Allmusic.com. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r188465/review. Retrieved 22 April 2011. 
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