James Taylor - 1999-07-15 - Montreux Jazz Festival, Switzerland (SBD)

James Taylor

1999-07-15

Montreux Jazz Festival

Montreux Switzerland

Soundboard Recording

320 kbps

Artwork Included

CD 1:

01. Intro

02. Carolina In My Mind

03. Everyday 

04. Line 'Em Up

05. Wasn't That a Mighty Storm 

06. Intro

07. Mexico

08. Jump Up Behind Me

09. Band Intro

10. Song Intro

11. You've Got A Friend 

12. Up On the Roof 

13. Shower the People

14. Band Intro

CD 2:

01. Not Fade Away 

02. Intro

03. Walking Man

04. Never Die Young

05. Handy Man

06. Band Intro

07. Country Road

08. Fire And Rain

09. Your Smiling Face

10. Encore Break

11. Secret o' Life

12. How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You) 

13. Intro

14. You Can Close Your Eyes

James Taylor - 1999-07-15 - Montreux Jazz Festival, Switzerland (SBD)

In May 1997, James Taylor released Hourglass, his first studio album in 6 years. An introspective disc, Hourglass focused largely on Taylor's troubled past and family. For example, Enough To Be On Your Way was inspired by the alcoholism-related death of his brother Alex earlier in the decade. The dark tone of the disc was also inspired by Taylor's divorce from actress Kathryn Walker just a year earlier. The album earned Taylor his best critical reviews in some 20 years. In addition, Hourglass was commercial success, reaching No. 9 on the Billboard 200, Taylor's first top 10 album in sixteen years. In addition, the album won 2 Grammy awards, for best pop album and best engineered album.  This FM broadcast captures Taylor on tour in the wake of the succes of Hourglass, in Switzerland at the Montreux Jazz Festival on July 15, 1999, 26 years ago today.