There is a nice little interview with James at his home in Marthas Vineyard (one of my dream destinations) at the beginning of this video..... Country Road is a song written and performed by James Taylor. It appears on his 1970 second album, Sweet Baby James. The song references Somerset Street in Belmont, Massachusetts, a wooded road running adjacent to the land owned by McLean Hospital, where Taylor had committed himself in 1965 to receive treatment for depression. Country Road reached number 37 on the Billboard pop singles chart in early 1971. It is also featured on James Taylors 1976 Greatest Hits record. The song has been played at most of his concerts since 1970. Randy Meisner, later of The Eagles, played bass on the album version. According to Taylors friend Danny Kortchmar, Country Roadcaptures the restless, anticipatory, vaguely hopeful feeling that playes a large part on James character and appears in Carolina in My Mind, Blossom and Sweet Baby James. The road leads away from his ensnaring family: Mama dont understand it/She wants to know where Ive been/Id have to be some kind of natural-born fool to want to pass that way again. It also takes him away from shattered affairs, prep schools, mental institutions — all manner of traps and bummers. At the end of the road lie freedom and ideal life in Carolina, and a heavenly band of angels.
Posted on: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 09:32:29 +0000
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