James Taylor / Sweet Baby James (US, Warner Bros. Records, WS 1843) <February 1970>

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James Taylor / Sweet Baby James (US, Warner Bros. Records, WS 1843) <February 1970>
(SIDE 1) HI JAMES 1S WS-1843-A-39638-1B A 6
(SIDE 2) THAT'S ALL FOLKS WS-1843-B-39639-1B A 2

"Sweet Baby James" is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter James Taylor and his first release on Warner Bros. Records. Released in February 1970, the album includes one of Taylor's earliest successful singles: "Fire and Rain", which reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album itself reached #3 on the Billboard Album Charts. Sweet Baby James made Taylor one of the main forces of the ascendant singer-songwriter movement. The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Album of the Year, in 1971. The album was listed at number 104 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. In 2000 it was voted number 228 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1I0dbTg210
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSkaEP2ZqbY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2x0fPgAj_Y&list=PLPtZM_EXSUqbrcpLr-eu-cFMo1nYwP0Tl

James Taylor – guitar, vocals
Danny Kortchmar – guitar
Red Rhodes – steel guitar
John London – bass guitar
Randy Meisner – bass guitar on "Country Road" and "Blossom"
Bobby West – double bass on "Fire and Rain"
Chris Darrow – fiddle, violin[17]
Carole King – piano, backing vocals
Russ Kunkel – drums
The horn players are uncredited.
Peter Asher – producer

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