Rolling Stoneのインスタグラム(rollingstone) - 11月21日 22時58分

"In 1970, a country still reeling from Vietnam, the Kennedy and King assassinations and the Manson murders was ready for something calm and introspective. Into that void appeared #JamesTaylor's second album, Sweet Baby James, one of the landmarks of the burgeoning singer-songwriter movement. It included one of Taylor's signature songs, "Fire and Rain.” But when the album was recorded, a big question loomed: Was Taylor himself ready? A few months before, Taylor – then a 21-year-old raised in the Carolinas and New England, with a history of mental breakdowns and drug addiction – had broken several bones in a motorcycle accident near his home on Martha's Vineyard. He had also just checked out of Austin Riggs, a mental hospital in Massachusetts. "He was a brilliant, somewhat eccentric, close-to-genius musician, and he was clearly one of those people who sometimes thought a bit too much for his own good," recalled his manager and producer Peter Asher. As it turned out, though, Taylor was more than prepared. In December, 1969, the musicians – along with a rotating group of bass players – cut the songs in three days, sometimes three a day, for a mere $7,600. "The material was all ready when we went in to do it, and we just nailed it really fast," Taylor said." From RollingStone.com Photograph by Jack Robinson

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