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All rights reserved.Gorilla - Taylor, James (Popular) (CD 1990)
| Track Listing 1. Mexico - (with David Crosby/Graham Nash) 2. Music 3. How Sweet It Is - (with Carly Simon) 4. Wandering 5. Gorilla 6. You Make It Easy 7. I Was a Fool to Care 8. Lighthouse - (with David Crosby/Graham Nash) 9. Angry Blues 10. Love Songs 11. Sarah Maria
Album Notes Personnel: James Taylor (vocals, acoustic guitar); David Crosby, Carly Simon, Graham Nash (vocals); Lowell George, Arthur Adams (guitar); Al Perkins (steel guitar); David Grisman (mandolin); Gayle Levant (harp); Jules Jacob (clarinet, oboe); Nick DeCaro (accordion); David Sanborn (saxophone); George Bohanon, Chuck Findley (horns); Clarence MacDonald (keyboards); Randy Newman (hornorgan); Victor Feldman (marimba, percussion); Andy Newmark (bass, drums); Willie Weeks (bass); Jim Keltner (drums); Milt Holland (percussion, wind chimes); Valerie Carter (background vocals). Recorded at Warner Bros. Recording Studios, North Hollywood, California from February to March, 1975. James Taylor's unique blend of well-crafted songs, meticulous production and heartfelt singing are all in abundance here on GORILLA. Featured are the Taylor originals "Mexico" and "Lighthouse" (both aided and abetted vocally by David Crosby and Graham Nash) and the uplifting, reflective "Music," which delightfully interweaves an orchestral harp in and around the melodic web of Taylor's crystalline guitar patterns. The lush mini-suite "Love Songs" opens with a guitar and clarinet duet and finds James moving ever so discreetly into Gershwin territory. Taylor's take on the Motown chestnut "How Sweet It Is" minted chart-topping gold and thrust the introspective balladeer into the role of hit-making cover artist. | Find errors in the product description? Submit a catalog update request now. | ||||||||||||||||
Reviews  If you feel it, you get it. I see no point of playing music critic. If you like the music you buy it or steal it. These tunes rarely if ever show up on the radio play list. I have Gorilla on LP (now CD) and we know how difficult it is to keep adding components to a music system only to have the "cool kids" shrink their collection down to fit in their iPod and plug it directly in their ears for private listening. Gorilla is not going to be played in any car with 1000's of watts to shake the windows of houses. It's mean for people who follow their on beat and like what they like despite the popular culture. You resonate with the words or feelings of these songs. "I can't help it if I don't feel so good." That said it all for me. Review ID: 10000000004337465 Was this review helpful? Report this review   James Taylor goes ape in another bad suit...Review created: 09/24/05 by: knotheadusc-- a member of Epinions and Top Reviewer in Music Pros: Contains a couple of well-known hits and a couple of lesser known gems. Cons: Some of the songs sound very dated. I'm on a James Taylor roll today. I mentioned Taylor's 1975 album Gorilla in my review of his 1976 album, In The Pocket because the two discs seem to be related in an offbeat kind of way. Like In The Pocket, Gorilla was produced by Russ Titelman and Lenny Waronker. On the cover of In The Pocket, James Taylor makes a not so subtle reference to Gorilla by wearing a corduroy suit and a t-shirt with a picture of himself on the cover of Gorilla. On the cover of Gorilla, Taylor wears a white suit and sandals against a stark white backdrop. If you look closely on the front cover and the back, you... Review ID: 10000000000235345 Epinions.com ratings are not included in the item's average rating. Links in this review may have been removed. |
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