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Sweet Baby James

Sweet Baby James is singer-songwriter James Taylor's second studio album, and his first release on Warner Bros. Records. Released in February 1970, it showcased Taylor's talents and showed the direction he would take in the early 1970s with the expansion of his career. The album featured one of Taylor's earliest single successes: "Fire and Rain", which reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album itself also managed to reach #3 on the Billboard Album Charts. Sweet Baby James made Taylor one of the main forces of the ascendent folk movement. The album was nominated to a Grammy Award for Album of the Year, in 1971. The album was listed at #103 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.[6]

The album, produced by Peter Asher, was recorded between 8 and 17 December 1969 at a cost of only $7,600 out of a budget of $20,000.[7] Taylor was "essentially homeless" at the time the album was recorded, either staying in Asher's home or crashing on a couch at the house of guitarist Danny Kortchmar or anyone else who would have him.[8]

The song "Suite for 20 G" was so named because Taylor was promised $20,000 once the album was delivered. With one more song needed, he strung together three unfinished songs into a "suite", and completed the album

Awards and recognition

• In 2003 the TV network VH1 named Sweet Baby James the 77th greatest album of all time.[citation needed]
• In 2003, the album was  number 103 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.[6]

Track listing

All songs by James Taylor unless otherwise noted.

Side one

1. "Sweet Baby James" – 2:54
2. "Lo and Behold" – 2:37
3. "Sunny Skies" – 2:21
4. "Steamroller" – 2:57
5. "Country Road" – 3:22
6. "Oh, Susanna" (Stephen Foster) – 1:58

Side two

1. "Fire and Rain" – 3:20
2. "Blossom" – 2:14
3. "Anywhere Like Heaven" – 3:23
4. "Oh Baby, Don't You Loose Your Lip on Me" – 1:46
5. "Suite for 20 G" – 4:41

Personnel

• James Taylor — guitar, vocals
• Jack Bielan — brass
• Chris Darrow — fiddle, violin.[10]
• Carole King — piano, vocals
• Danny Kortchmar — guitar
• Russ Kunkel — drums
• John London — bass
• Randy Meisner — bass
• Red Rhodes — steel guitar
• Bobby West — double bass

The horn players are uncredited.

Charts

Peak positions