JT (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = JT
Type = Album
Artist = James Taylor


Released = June 1977
Recorded = March 15–April 24, 1977 The Sound Factory (Hollywood, California)
Genre = Adult Contemporary
Length = 44:28
Label = Columbia/Legacy
Producer = Peter Asher
Amy Herot
Engineer = Val Garay
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:v3520r1ac48i~T1 link]
*"Rolling Stone" (favorable) [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/jamestaylor/albums/album/230947/review/6068275/jt link]
*Robert Christgau (B) [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=james+taylor link]
Last album = "Greatest Hits"
(1976)
This album = "JT"
(1977)
Next album = "Flag"
(1979)

"JT" is singer-songwriter James Taylor's ninth album, and his first album for Columbia Records. Released in 1977, it contains hit singles in "Handy Man" and "Your Smiling Face" and was Taylor's highest charting album since "Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon".

This album also contains several Taylor classics, such as "Secret O' Life" and "Terra Nova", with the participation of Taylor's then-wife Carly Simon.

Taylor won the Grammy for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male for "Handy Man".

Track listing

All songs by James Taylor unless otherwise noted.

#"Your Smiling Face" – 2:45
#"There We Are" – 3:00
#"Honey Don't Leave L.A." (Danny Kortchmar) – 3:06
#"Another Grey Morning" – 2:44
#"Bartender's Blues" – 4:12
#"Secret O' Life" – 3:34
#"Handy Man" (Otis Blackwell, Jimmy Jones) – 3:17
#"I Was Only Telling a Lie" – 3:23
#"Looking for Love on Broadway" – 2:22
#"Terra Nova" (Carly Simon, Taylor) – 4:32
#"Traffic Jam" – 1:58
#"If I Keep My Heart Out of Sight" – 2:58

Personnel

*James Taylor — guitar, vocals
*Peter Asher — percussion
*Red Callender — bass, tuba
*David Campbell — viola
*Dan Dugmore — guitar, steel guitar
*Danny Kortchmar — guitar
*Leah Kunkel — percussion, vocals
*Russell Kunkel — drums, percussion
*Dr. Clarence McDonald — keyboards
*Graham Nash — vocals
*Linda Ronstadt — vocals
*David Sanborn — saxophone
*Carly Simon — vocals
*Leland Sklar — bass