JT [Remaster] by James Taylor (Soft Rock)

Pros: Guys like James Taylor make terms like "easy listening" much easier to enjoy.
Cons: One skippable song, and it's only two minutes long.

John Mayer famously called him "The Blueprint" during a televised award show, and it's true that James Taylor is the Daddy of male singer-songwriters (in much the same way most female singer-songwriters look up to Joni Mitchell). Armed with an acoustic ...

Pros: Some wonderful old songs by James Taylor circa 1977.
Cons: None, really, other than a couple of songs I don't like as much as others.

I clearly recall my first memories of James Taylor's 1977 album JT. I was five years old and my father was stationed at Mildenhall Air Force Base in England. My three older sisters were teenagers and living at home. One of them was ...