Rhino pays tribute to Taylor with a new collection that introduces newly remastered versions of all his Warner Bros. albums. THE COMPLETE WARNER BROS. ALBUMS: 1970-1976 will be available on July 19, 2019 from Rhino as a 6-LP set. This collection brings several albums back into print on vinyl for the first time in many years.
Each album in the set has been remastered, a process overseen by Peter Asher, who signed Taylor to the Beatles’ Apple Records label in 1968, worked as his manager for 25 years, and originally produced several of these albums.
In the collection’s liner notes Asher writes: «Revisiting these albums several decades later has been revelatory, nostalgic, and exciting. I have heard bits and pieces frequently over the years, of course, but listening with concentration and in detail to each of the original tapes without interruption has been a thrilling luxury.»
THE COMPLETE WARNER BROS. ALBUMS: 1970-1976 includes: Sweet Baby James (1970), Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon (1971), One Man Dog (1972), Walking Man (1974), Gorilla (1975), and In the Pocket (1976).
The collection is filled with some of Taylor’s most iconic and beloved songs like «Sweet Baby James,» «Fire And Rain,» «Don’t Let Me Be Lonely Tonight,» «Walking Man,» «How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You),» «Mexico,» «Shower The People» and Carole King’s «You’ve Got A Friend,» the latter which was Taylor’s first #1 hit and earned him his first Grammy® Award (Best Male Pop Vocal) in 1971.
The collection also offers up some spectacular deep cuts like his acoustic lullaby «You Can Close Your Eyes» from Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon; the 10-minute song cycle that closes One Dog Man; «Rock ‘n’ Roll Music Is Now» from Walking Man, which features backing vocals by Paul and Linda McCartney; and «Don’t Be Sad ‘Cause Your Sun Is Down» from In the Pocket, a song Taylor wrote and recorded with Stevie Wonder.
- Disc 1
- 1Sweet Baby James
- 2Lo and Behold
- 3Sunny Skies
- 4Steamroller
- 5Country Road
- 6Oh, Susannah
- 7Fire and Rain
- 8Blossom
- 9Anywhere Like Heaven
- 10Oh Baby, Don’t You Loose Your Lip On Me
- 11Suite for 20G
- Disc 2
- 1Love Has Brought Me Around
- 2You’ve Got a Friend
- 3Places in My Past
- 4Riding On a Railroad
- 5Soldiers
- 6Mud Slide Slim
- 7Hey Mister, That’s Me Up On the Jukebox
- 8You Can Close Your Eyes
- 9Machine Gun Kelly
- 10Long Ago and Far Away
- 11Let Me Ride
- 12Highway Song
- 13Isn’t It Nice to Be Home Again
- Disc 3
- 1One Man Parade
- 2Nobody But You
- 3Chili Dog
- 4Fool for You
- 5Instrumental I
- 6New Tune
- 7Back On the Street Again
- 8Don’t Let Me Be Lonely Tonight
- 9Woh, Don’t You Know
- 10One Morning in May
- 11Instrumental II
- 12Someone
- 13Hymn
- 14Fanfare
- 15Little David
- 16Mescalito
- 17Dance
- 18Jig
- Disc 4
- 1Walking Man
- 2Rock ‘N’ Roll Is Music Now
- 3Let It All Fall Down
- 4Me and My Guitar
- 5Daddy’s Baby
- 6Ain’t No Song
- 7Hello Old Friend
- 8Migration
- 9The Promised Land
- 10Fading Away
- Disc 5
- 1Mexico
- 2Music
- 3How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)
- 4Wandering
- 5Gorilla
- 6You Make It Easy
- 7I Was a Fool to Care
- 8Lighthouse
- 9Angry Blues
- 10Love Songs
- 11Sarah Maria
- Disc 6
- 1Shower the People
- 2A Junkie’s Lament
- 3Money Machine
- 4Slow Burning Love
- 5Everybody Has the Blues
- 6Daddy’s All Gone
- 7Woman’s Gotta Have It
- 8Captain Jim’s Drunken Dream
- 9Don’t Be Sad ‘Cause Your Sun Is Down
- 10Nothing Like a Hundred Miles
- 11Family Man
- 12Golden Moments