Tracks
- Sweet Baby James
- Lo and Behold
- Sunny Skies
- Steamroller
- Country Road
- Oh! Susanna
- Fire and Rain
- Blossom
- Anywhere Like Heaven
- Oh Baby, Don't You Loose Your Lip on Me
- Suite for 20 G
Sweet Baby James is a soothing album. The music is folk, country and rock. James Taylor sings well and the music sounds good, but it all soothes in the sense that it dulls the senses.
Listening to this album is like sitting in warm water. It may be comfortable, but it doesn't get your blood flowing like sitting in really hot or cold water. So, while I can tolerate the music and not be offended, that's the problem. This music doesn't challenge or incite or provoke or inspire. Must music do that? Great music should.
I don't think this album is necessarily worth listening to, although it's probably a better example of the vapid, superficial and egocentric feel-good music that is becoming popular and that both Simon and Garfunkel and Cat Stevens have recently been doing. It should be that I don't think this album should be on the 1001 Albums list.
The songs sound fine. The ones I thought were better than others were: Steamroller, Country Road and Fire and Rain.
★★★★★★★☆☆☆
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