Good things come to those who wait, not least to James Taylor and his fans who turned the Mall of Asia (MOA) Arena on April 8 into one giant folk house and speakeasy when the artist-musician had a sequel show to his 1994 Folk Arts Theater presentation.
Seven years after the cancellation of his much-anticipated concert in Manila, six-time Grammy award winner James Taylor performs his hit songs at the SM MOA Arena with his All-Star Band.There are few musicians and artists worth watching a second time, not just because of the prohibitive price of tickets, but James Taylor must be one of them.
Something in the Way She Moves, the song Taylor said he was first comfortable with performing in public and used for his audition at Apple studios for two Beatles, started things on the right foot. The early part of the set included title songs from two of his later albums, Never Die Young and That’s Why I’m Here.
Personally, I most enjoyed the lesser-known songs but still with profound impact — Carolina in My Mind, Handyman, even the old Carole King and Gerry Goffin song Up on the Roof. Long and Ago and Faraway has Joni Mitchell’s backup vocals lifted by the bassist Jimmy Johnson from the original recording, resulting in a kind of audio hologram of the grand dame that is quite hair-raising, amazing what technology can do in this half a century time lapse of backing vocals of where rainbows end and dreaming the dream my friend.
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