Photo: Ken Regan
In his four decade career, James Taylor has scored a number of hits with other people’s songs (including Carole King’s “You’ve Got a Friend”), so it makes sense that he got together a group of veteran session musicians to record an entire album of covers. “The way I feel about the songs I write is that they deserve to be recorded, and I feel the same way about these covers,” says Taylor. “We’ve got ‘em, we know ‘em, we ought to make a record of them.” Click below for more on Taylor and the sessions that went into Covers and also for a complete James Taylor album guide.
• James Taylor’s Country Soul: Inside the Intimate Sessions For the Singer’s New Covers Album
• James Taylor: The Essential Album-by-Album Guide
• James Taylor to Record Covers Album
• James Taylor and Carole King Return in High Style to the Troubadour
