Flag (James Taylor album)

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


Released = May, 1979
Recorded = January 4–March 25, 1979
Genre = Rock
Length = 42:49
Label = Columbia/Legacy
Producer = Peter Asher
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:qsjp7ipjg7or link]
*"Rolling Stone" (favorable) [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/jamestaylor/albums/album/233224/review/6067391/flag link]
*Robert Christgau (C+) [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=james+taylor link]
Last album = "JT"
(1977)
This album = "Flag"
(1979)
Next album = "Dad Loves His Work"
(1981)

"Flag" is singer-songwriter James Taylor's tenth album. Released in 1979, it included songs from Taylor's music score to Studs Terkel and Stephen Schwartz's Broadway musical, "Working".

The album was not particularly well received, but it did provide a hit in Taylor's cover version of the Gerry Goffin/Carole King composition, "Up on the Roof".

Track listing

All songs by James Taylor unless otherwise noted.
#"Company Man" – 3:47
#"Johnnie Comes Back" – 3:55
#"Day Tripper" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 4:25
#"I Will Not Lie for You" – 3:16
#"Brother Trucker" – 4:01
#"Is That the Way You Look?" – 1:59
#"B.S.U.R." – 3:23
#"Rainy Day Man" (Taylor, Zach Wiesner) – 3:02
#"Millworker" – 3:52
#"Up on the Roof" (Gerry Goffin, Carole King) – 4:21
#"Chanson Française" – 2:05
#"Sleep Come Free Me" – 4:43

Personnel

*James Taylor — guitar, vocals
*Don Alias — percussion
*Peter Asher — timbales, vocals
*Valerie Carter — backing vocals
*Dan Dugmore — pedal steel guitar
*Steve Forman — percussion
*Don Grolnick — keyboards
*Jimmy Johnson — bass
*Danny Kortchmar — guitar
*Russ Kunkel — drums, percussion
*David Lasley — backing vocals
*Jesse Levy — cello
*Arif Mardin — strings
*Steve Edney — backing vocals
*Kate Markowitz — backing vocals
*Arnold McCuller — backing vocals
*Graham Nash — vocals
*David Sanborn — saxophone
*Ralph Schuckett — keyboards
*Louise Schulmann — viola
*Carly Simon — vocals
*Leland Sklar — bass
*David Spinozza — guitar, strings
*Alex Taylor — backing vocals
*Waddy Wachtel — guitar