James Taylor - 1986-03-27 - Baden-Baden, Germany (TV SBD)

James Taylor

1986-03-27

Ohne Filter

SWF Studios

Baden-Baden, Germany

TV SBD Recording

320 kbps

Artwork Included

01. You Can Close Your Eyes 

02. Sweet Baby James 

03. Wandering

04. Carolina In My Mind 

05. That's Why I'm Here 

06. Only A Dream In Rio 

07. Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight 

08. Handy Man 

09. Country Road 

10. Walking Man 

11. Your Smiling Face

12. Long Ago And Far Away

13. Traffic Jam > Sea Cruise 

14. Everyday 

15. Fire And Rain

16. Mexico 

17. Brother Trucker 

18. How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)

19. You've Got A Friend

20. Steamroller Blues 

James Taylor - 1986-03-27 - Baden-Baden, Germany (TV SBD)

1980s - #7: In the early 1980s, James Taylor found his life falling apart around him. His marriage to Carly Simon ended, he was once again hooked on drugs, close friends John Belushi and Dennis Wilson both died tragically, and his music career had stalled. He thought it might be time to retire. Then he was invited to play at the Rock in Rio Festival in Rio De Janiero in January 1985 and his life changed dramatically. In an interview years later, Taylor described the experience as follows: “We put the band together and went down and it was just an amazing response. I played to 300,000 people. They not only knew my music, they knew things about it and were interested in aspects of it that to that point had only interested me. To have that kind of validation right about then was really what I needed. It helped get me back on track.” He penned the tune Only a Dream in Rio as a tribute to that night, filling the song with hopeful lyrics such as “I was there that very day and my heart came back alive.” This soundboard recording captures the rejuvenated JT about 15 months later, in Germany, on March 27, 1986, 4 decades ago today.