Day 30: January 30: Going Around One More Time
"One moment you swear you've had enough, the next you've got to know her name."
I think of James' "That's Why I'm Here" album as a sort of rebirth in his career. Up until that point, many of his songs seem to be in the moment, exploring the now or the future- but this album begins a journey of reflection.I think it also seems to be the era of James cleaning himself up drug-wise. Perhaps no song on the album (besides perhaps the title track) expresses this idea of transition better than this one. Brother Livingston wrote it and also recorded it. James' version is a good one.
Poor Livingston Taylor. In most families, he would be the musical superstar. It must be hard to have what would seem monumental to most career-wise pale so starkly in contrast to his brother. Livingston should be a little bigger of a name than he is. But while his voice has that Taylor quality, he lacks the charm or stage presence of brother James. His most famous (and my favorite) song is "I Will be in Love With You" but I couldn't find a decent version of it online. So instead I chose this one. It could have come off of a James Taylor album and I bet it's mislabeled on many iPods as a JT song.
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