James Taylor – Gorilla (1975/2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

James Taylor – Gorilla (1975/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 39:03 minutes | 1,30 GB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Rhino – Warner Records

Gorilla is James Taylor’s 1975 masterpiece. This star-studded album features legends including David Crosby, David Grisman, Milt Holland, Graham Nash, Randy Newman, Al Perkins, Linda Ronstadt, David Sanborn, Carly Simon, Leland Sklar and many others. Included are the top five hits, “Mexico” and “How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You).” It reached #6 on the Billboard 200. Absolutely essential.

Gorilla served notice to anyone expecting James Taylor to continue on in the personal, confessional vein of his first few albums that he did not intend to do so. Recording in Burbank with Warners staff producers Lenny Waronker and Russ Titelman, Taylor used a stellar backup band augmented by such guests as Graham Nash and David Crosby (who harmonized on the chart single “Mexico”), his wife Carly Simon, mandolinist David Grisman, saxophone player David Sanborn, Randy Newman on “hornorgan,” and Little Feat slide guitarist Lowell George. This team worked on a set of light, pleasant songs that bordered on the generic – one was called “Music,” another “Love Songs” – but were performed and sung with taste and care. Taylor was relentlessly upbeat; even “Angry Blues,” which confessed, “I can’t help it if I don’t feel so good,” didn’t sound like things were that bad. But then, these songs didn’t seem to be about Taylor, or if they were, as in the extended metaphor of the title track, the connection was so oblique that it was hard to say what the point was. Still, one could glide on Taylor’s easy vocals and the band’s competence, and Gorilla was an enjoyable listening experience. “How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You),” the first of a series of bleached R&B covers, became a Top Ten hit, and the album restored Taylor’s commercial fortunes, setting him on the steady path he would follow for decades after. But who would have thought only a few years before that the king of the confessional song poets would turn into such a lightweight?

Tracklist:

01. James Taylor – Mexico (02:59)
02. James Taylor – Music (03:47)
03. James Taylor – How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) (03:36)
04. James Taylor – Wandering (02:41)
05. James Taylor – Gorilla (03:12)
06. James Taylor – You Make It Easy (04:10)
07. James Taylor – I Was A Fool To Care (03:21)
08. James Taylor – Lighthouse (03:16)
09. James Taylor – Angry Blues (03:26)
10. James Taylor – Love Songs (05:46)
11. James Taylor – Sarah Maria (02:44)

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