James Taylor on how he takes a song and makes it his own James Taylor isn't done with releasing classic American Songbook songsNEW YORK -- Something happens when James Taylor covers a song. “People often tell me, ‘It sounds like you wrote that song’ or ‘That sounds like a James Taylor song.’ And that's because basically it’s been translated into my language,” the singer-songwriter told The Associated Press in an interview this week. Several times he noted that his guitar skills were somewhat limited and that his natural tendency to James Taylor a song is to lean on his own influences: Latin music, bossa nova and Afro Cuban. Pizzarelli, who also has worked with Paul McCartney, Michael McDonald and Rosemary Clooney, calls Taylor an amazing guitar player and a talented harmonizer. “When you listen to the collection, he really James Taylor-ized them and not at the expense of the songs.

Source: ABC News November 20, 2020 14:28 UTC