James Taylor

At 76 years old, James Taylor has this physical status:

Career

Taylor checked himself out of McLean and moved to New York City to form a band at Kortchmar's request. They recruited Joel O'Brien, a former member of Kortchmar's old band King Bees, to play drums, as well as Zachary Wiesner (son of academic Jerome Wiesner) to play bass. The Flying Machine was born after Taylor refused to imagine naming the group after him. "Knocking Around the Zoo," "Don't Talk Now," and "The Blues Is Just a Bad Dream" were among Taylor's songs about McLean. Taylor romanticized his life in a few songs, but he was plagued by self-doubt. They were in Greenwich Village's high-visibility Night Owl Cafe, as well as acts such as the Turtles and Lothar and the Hand People by summer 1966.

To Kortchmar's dismay, Taylor joined with a motley group of people and began using narcotics. The group cut a single, Taylor's "Night Owl," backed by his "Brighten Your Night with My Day" in a late 1966 hasty recording session. It was launched on Jay Gee Records, a Jubilee Records affiliate, in the Northeast, but only at No. 5 charts. Around the country, the 102nd ranked 102nd. Other songs had been recorded during the same session, but Jubilee declined to release an album. The Flying Machine broke up after a string of poorly chosen shows outside New York, culminating in a three-week stay at a struggling nightspot in Freeport, Bahamas, for which they were never charged. (Smile a Little Smile for Me, a British band with the same name appeared in 1969 with the hit song "Smile a Little Smile for Me." (Originally published in 1971 as James Taylor and the Inventive Flying Machine.)

"I learned a lot about music but not so much about drugs during this New York period," Taylor later said. During the last Flying Machine period, in fact, his heroin use had developed to full-blown heroin use: "I just fell into it," he said, "because it was as easy to get high in the Village as getting a drink." He hung out in Washington Square Park, playing guitar to prevent fear of getting sick and then passing out, while still allowing runaways and criminals to remain at his apartment. He made a desperate call to his father one night, but he was eventually out of money and abandoning by his boss. Isaac Taylor hopped to New York for a rescue, renting a car and heading back to North Carolina with James and his possessions. Taylor recovered after six months of being sick, but he did require a throat surgery to reconstruct vocal cords that had been weakened from performing too harshly.

Taylor decided to try being a solo act for a change of scenery. He moved to London in late 1967, funded by a small family's inheritance: Notting Hill, Belgravia, and Chelsea. Kortchmar, his friend, gave him his next big break after recording some demos in Soho. Kortchmar linked Taylor to Peter Asher through his friendship with the King Bees (who also opened for Peter and Gordon). Asher was A&R head for the Beatles' newly formed label Apple Records. Asher, who then appeared at the demo for Beatles Paul McCartney and George Harrison, Taylor performed "Something in the Way She Moves" on her own. "I just heard his voice and his guitar, and I thought he was amazing," McCartney says of his first appearance. "I just heard his voice and his guitar and I thought he was amazing, and I thought it was great... and it was all like, 'Wow, he's great.'" Taylor was the first non-British act signed to Apple, and he praises Asher for his contribution to his singing career. "I knew from the first time that we met that he was the right one to direct my career," Taylor said of Asher, who later became his boss. I had this resolve in his eye that I hadn't seen in anyone before. Taylor wrote "Carolina in My Mind" and rehearsed with a new backing band after living in a variety of places with different women. Taylor recorded what would be his first album from July to October 1968 at Trident Studios, when the Beatles were recording The White Album. "Carolina in My Mind" with McCartney and an uncredited George Harrison, whose lyric "somebody gathers" refers to the Beatles, and Taylor's "Something in the Way She Moves" provided the lyrical starting point for Harrison's masterpiece "Something." Both McCartney and Asher brought in arranger Richard Anthony Hewson to perform many of the songs and rare "link" passages between them; they are expected to get a mixed reception.

Taylor relapsed into heroin and methamphetamine during the recording sessions, which brought him right back to his heroin use. He received physeptone therapy in a British clinic, returned to New York, was hospitalized, and then joined the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, which emphasized cultural and historical causes in treating severe psychiatric disorders. In contrast, Apple's debut album, James Taylor, was released in the United Kingdom and in the United States in December 1968 and February 1969. The general reaction was mostly positive, with Jon Landau's comment that "this album is the most fresh air I've inhaled in a long while." "It knocks me out of the office." Taylor's inability to promote it as a result of his hospitalization; it failed to chart in the United Kingdom and only reached No. 131; "Carolina in My Mind" was launched as a single but failed to chart in the UK and only reached No. On the US charts, there are 118.

Taylor headlined a six-night stand at the Troubadour in Los Angeles in July 1969. He appeared at the Newport Folk Festival as the last act on July 20, and thousands of fans gathered in the rain to see him perform. In a motorcycle crash on Martha's Vineyard just over two hands and both feet, he was forced to stop playing for several months. However, he continued to write songs and signed a new contract with Warner Bros. Records in October 1969.

Taylor moved to California after recovering, keeping Asher as his boss and record producer. He recorded sessions for his second album in December 1969. The album, titled Sweet Baby James, features Carole King's participation in the 1970s' concert "Fire and Rain," a song about both Taylor and his heroin use after being treated in mental hospitals and Suzanne Schnerr's suicide. Both the album and the single reached No. 1 on the charts. Sweet Baby James is the highest-selling billboard chart, with the first year seeing more than 1.5 million copies sold and then more than 3 million in the United States alone. Sweet Baby James was released as a folk-rock masterpiece, an album that effectively demonstrated Taylor's talents to the mainstream audience, setting a course in the coming years. Several Grammy Award nominations, one for Album of the Year, were given to it, including one for Album of the Year. It went on to be No. 1 on the Wall Street Journal. In 2003, Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, with "Fire and Rain" listed as No. 103, with "Fire and Rain" ranked as No. 1 on the list. In 2004, Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time reached 227.

Taylor appeared in a Monte Hellman film, Two-Lane Blacktop, during the time Sweet Baby James was outlawed. He appeared with Joni Mitchell, Phil Ochs, and the Canadian band Chilliwack at a Vancouver benefit concert that sponsored Greenpeace's 1971 nuclear weapons demonstrations at Amchitka, Alaska; this performance was released in album form as Amchitka, 1970. The 1970 Concert That Launched Greenpeace. Taylor's next album sessions began in January 1971.

On February 17, 1971, he appeared on "Sweet Baby James," "Fire and Rain," and "Country Road." His career success at this point, as well as the appeal to female fans of various ages, piqued considerable interest in him, triggering a Time magazine cover story about him as "the face of new rock" on March 1, 1971. "Taylor's use of elemental imagery—darkness and sunshine, references to highways travelled and untraveled—is comparable to that of Wuthering Heights' Heathcliff and Young Werther's "To fears expressed and unstated—reaches a level of intimacy and control rarely reached in pure pop music." "I thought I was trying to be George Harrison" after one of the writers described his appearance as "a cowboy Jesus."

Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon was also included in Taylor's biggest hit single in the United States, a tribute to Carole King's latest "You've Got a Friend" (featuring backing vocals by Joni Mitchell), which debuted at No. 81. In late July, Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 rose to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. "Long Ago and Far Away," the sequel to the top 40 and also reached No. 10. On the Billboard Adult Contemporary Chart, there are four characters. The album itself debuted at No. 1. Taylor's highest position on the album charts before the debut of his 2015 album, Before This World, which debuted at No. 2. Taylor Swift was one of the top performers in the world. Taylor received his first Grammy Award for Male Vocal Performance in early 1972 for "You've Got a Friend"; King also received Song of the Year for the same song in that ceremony. In the United States, the album has sold 2.5 million copies.

Taylor's fourth album, One Man Dog, was announced in November 1972. Linda Ronstadt's cameo, Carly Simon, and John McLaughlin were among the concept albums that were mainly recorded in his home recording studio. The album was made up of eighteen short pieces of music. Despite being in the Top 10 of the Billboard Album Charts, reception was largely sluggish, and total sales were disappointing. The lead single, "Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight," debuted at No. 1. On the Hot 100, 14 people were ranked, while the sequel, "One Man Parade," barely made it to the top 75. Taylor married fellow singer-songwriter Carly Simon on November 3, in a small ceremony at her Murray Hill, Manhattan apartment. Following a Taylor appearance at Radio City Music Hall, a post-concert party developed into a large-scale wedding reception, and the Simon-Taylor marriage would gain a lot of public attention in the years to come. Sarah Maria "Sally" Taylor, born January 7, 1974, and Benjamin Simon "Ben" Taylor, born January 22, 1977. The couple will appear on each others' albums and have two hit singles as duet partners during their marriage: a tribute to Inez & Charlie Foxx's "Mockingbird" and a front on "Devoted to You," according to Inez and Charlie Foxx.

Taylor spent the majority of his 1973-19 lives as a married man, but did not return to the recording studio until January 1974, when his fifth album was released. In June, Walking Man was released in the United States, as well as featured appearances by Paul and Linda McCartney and guitarist David Spinozza. The album was a critical and commercial failure, and it was his first album to miss the Top Five since being signed with Warner. Its poor reviews and only 300,000 copies were sold in the United States. The title track did not make it to the top 100.

Nevertheless, James Taylor's artistic career flourished in 1975 as the Gold album Gorilla reached No. 1. 6 and the others performed one of Marvin Gaye's "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)" on Saturday, a cover version of Marvin Gaye's "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)" featuring wife Carly on backing vocals and landed No. 6 on top of his charts, earning him the No. 6 position. 5 in America and No. 0 in the United States. In Canada, there is one. The track on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart also ranked at the top, while the follow-up single, the feelgood "Mexico," starring Crosby & Nash, made it to the top of the list. Gorilla, Taylor's electric, lighter side that was apparent on Walking Man, was a well-received album. However, it was nevertheless a more consistent and more modern Taylor with songs such as "Mexico," "Wandering," and "Angry Blues." "Sarah Maria" was also a song about his daughter Sally.

In 1976, Taylor's last studio album to be released under Warner Bros. Records, In the Pocket. Stevie Wonder (who co-wrote a song with Taylor and performed a harmonica solo) discovered him on the album with many coworkers and acquaintances, including Art Garfunkel, David Crosby, Bonnie Raitt, and Stevie Wonder. It was a melodic album on sale, and it was emphasized by the single "Shower the People," an enduring hit No. 1. On the Adult Contemporary chart, they are 1st on the chart and 22 on the Pop Charts. Nonetheless, the album was not well-received, peaking at No. 1. Rolling Stone was criticized in particular for his 16th and being chastised. Nonetheless, In The Pocket was still a gold medalist.

The label announced Greatest Hits, the collection of Taylor's best work from 1970 to 1976, at the end of his Taylor's deal with Warner in November. It became his best-selling album ever with time. The RIAA awarded it a Diamond status in the United States, and it has since sold nearly 20 million copies worldwide.

Taylor signed with Columbia Records in 1977. He made his first album for the company between March and April. JT, who was born in June, gave Taylor his best reviews since Sweet Baby James, who received a Grammy Award in 1978 for Album of the Year. "JT is the least stiff and by far the most different album Taylor has made," Peter Herbst of Rolling Stone wrote in the album's August 11, 1977, issue. It was not intended to criticize Taylor's earlier efforts. ... But it's still nice to see him so well. JT came in No. 2nd in the world rankings. 4 on the Billboard charts, with more than 3 million copies in the United States alone. The album's Triple Platinum status means it is tied to Sweet Baby James as Taylor's all-time best-selling studio album. Jimmy Jones' book and Otis Blackwell's "Handy Man" were criticized, and it was debuted at No. 1 by a slew of people. 1 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart and ranked No. 1 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart. Taylor has been praised for his cover version on the Hot 100, earning him another Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. The album debuted on the Canadian charts, with the song also occupying top 10 positions. The album's success prompted the debut of two new singles; the up-tempo pop "Your Smiling Face," anenduring live favourite, reached No. 20; however, Danny Kortchmar's "Honey Don't Leave Los Angeles," which only topped the charts, earned only No. 58. 61.

Taylor appeared with Paul Simon on Art Garfunkel's recording of a cover of Sam Cooke's "Wonderful World," which debuted in the Top 20 in the United States and topped the AC charts in early 1978. After briefly appearing on Broadway, he took a one-year break and reappearing in the summer of 1979 with the cover-studded Platinum album Flag, which features a Top 30 version of Gerry Goffin's and Carole King's "Up on the Roof." On the PBS version of Studs Terkel's non-fiction book Working, which Terkel himself hosted, there were three selections from Flag, "Millworker," and "Brother Trucker." Taylor himself appeared in the film as a trucker; he did "Brother Trucker" in style. Taylor performed on "Mockingbird" live in Madison Square Garden, where he and his wife Carly made a touching live appearance. Both the No Nukes album and film had the performance on display.

Taylor had an encounter with Mark David Chapman on December 7, 1980, the murder of John Lennon would take place just one day later. Taylor told the BBC in 2010: "The guy had pinned me to the wall and was glistening with maniacal sweat and was yelling some mad squabble about what he was going to do and his stuff with how John was interested, and he'd be in touch with John Lennon." And it was surreal to find out that the guy was in touch 24 hours before he shot John." Taylor, who lived in a building next door to Lennon, heard the assassination attempt take place the next night. "I heard him shoot—five, just as fast as you could pull the trigger, about five explosions," Taylor said.

Taylor released the album Dad Loves His Work in 1981, focusing on his father's relationship, the way his ancestors lived, and the consequences that he and Simon had on each other. The album was another platinum success, achieving No. 1 on the charts. In a duet with J. D. Souther "Her Town Too," Taylor's last true hit single in a duet with J. D. Souther, "Her Town Too" reached No. 10. 5 on the Adult Contemporary chart and No. Billboard Hot 100 is at number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Simon Johnson announced her separation from Taylor in September 1981, saying, "Our needs are different; it seems[s] impossible to work together." and their divorce was finalized in 1983. Their breakup was widely reported. Taylor was living on West End Avenue in Manhattan and on a methadone maintenance program to help him with his heroin use at the time. Sally and Ben's sons died in part because of John Belushi and Dennis Wilson's death, but in part because of his desire to be a better father to his children, he quit methadone and conquered heroin use.

Taylor was considering retirement by the time he appeared at the Rock in Rio festival in Rio de Janeiro in January 1985. He was encouraged by Brazil's nascent democracy at the time, buoyed by the enthusiastic reception he received from the large audience and other performers, and musically energized by Brazilian music's sounds and nature. "I had... kind of bottomed-out on a heroin use, my Carly union had broken down, and I'd basically been depressed and lost for a while," he said in 1995: "I had been depressed and lost for a long time."

"I was there the whole day and my heart came back alive" was written in Rio's tribute to that night. That's Why I'm Here, his 1985 album that debuted a line of studio recordings that, although spaced further from his previous works, showed a more consistent level of quality and fewer covers, most notable the Buddy Holly song "Everyday" which debuted as a single reached No. 119. 61. The backing vocals were performed by an all-star pair of Joni Mitchell and Don Henley on the album track "Only One."

Taylor's next albums were partially successful; he appeared on the charts in 1988, and the platinum New Moon Shine gave Taylor some of his hits, including "I've Got to") Stop Thinkin' About It," as well as the upbeat "I've Got to") Stop Thinkin' About That," which were both hit singles on Adult Contemporary radio. He began touring regularly in the late 1980s, particularly on the summer amphitheater circuit. His later concerts feature songs from his career, as well as the musicianship of his band and backup singers. This is captured on the 1993 two-disc Live album, with Arnold McCuller's descants depicting "Shower the People" and "I Will Follow" as a highlight. He appeared on The Simpsons episode "Deep Space Homer" as the missing final piece, and he also appeared later in the series as the family assembled a jigsaw puzzle with his face as the missing final piece. Taylor played the Lord in Randy Newman's Faust in 1995.

Taylor's Hourglass, an introspective album that earned him the best critical accolades in almost 20 years, was released in 1997, six years since his last studio album. Taylor's turbulent past and family brought the album a large portion of its attention. "Jump Up Behind Me" paid tribute to his father's rescue after the days of The Flying Machine and the long drive from New York City to Chapel Hill. The death of his brother Alex's alcoholism-related death inspired "Enough to be on his way" earlier this decade. Taylor and Walker's divorce, which occurred in 1996, also inspired the designs. "One of the record's themes is disbelief," Rolling Stone Magazine said, although Taylor said it was "spirituals for agnostics." Critics adopted the album's dark themes, and Hourglass was a commercial smash, with a No. 1 appearance. The Billboard 200 (Taylor's first Top ten album in ten years) and also featured "Little More Time With You" advocate. When Taylor was named Best Pop Album in 1998, he received his first Grammy since JT.

Taylor's Platinum-certified October Road, which was praised by two greatest hit films, attracted a receptive audience in 2002. It contained a number of quiet instrumental accompaniments and passages. Overall, Taylor found Taylor in a more relaxed mood rather than facing a crisis right now, rather than facing a crisis right now. "I thought I'd reached the midpoint of my life when I was 17," Taylor said in an interview. The album came in two versions, a single-disc version and a "limited edition" two-disc edition with three extra songs, including a duet with Mark Knopfler's "Sailing to Philadelphia," which also appeared on Knopfler's album by the same name. Taylor appeared in "The Boxer" at the Kennedy Center Honors Tribute to Paul Simon in 2002. "How Is the World Treating You?" they said later on Louvin Brothers' duet, "How Is the World Treating You?" James Taylor, a 2004 Christmas album with distribution through Hallmark Cards, was released by he failed to renew his official contract with Columbia/Sony.

Taylor performed regularly in environmental and liberal causes in October 2004, and it was the Vote for Change tour that culminated in a string of concerts in American swing states. MoveOn.org produced these concerts with the intention of persuading people to vote for John Kerry and against George W. Bush in the presidential election of 2000. Taylor's appearances were a result of his Dixie Chicks' joint tour.

On October 24, 2004, Taylor performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Game 2 of the World Series in Boston on October 24, 2004, including both the anthem and "America" for the game, as well as Game 1 on October 23, 2018. He appeared at Game 1 of the 2008 NBA Finals in Boston on June 5, 2008, and the Philadelphia Flyers' Winter Classic match against the Boston Bruins was played in Boston.

In December 2004, he appeared on "A Change Is Gonna Come" on The West Wing as himself. At an event recognizing an artist portrayed by Taylor's wife Caroline, he performed Sam Cooke's classic "A Change Is Gonna Come" by him. Later on, he appeared alongside the Dixie Chicks on CMT's Crossroads. MusiCares paid tribute to Taylor with appearances by a variety of well-known artists in early 2006. Lead singer Natalie Maines said he had always been one of their musical heroes and had, for them, lived up to their once-imagined image. They performed "Show the People" by Arnold McCuller, who has performed backing vocals on Taylor's live tours and albums for many years.

Taylor unveiled a repackaged and marginally different version of his Hallmark Christmas album, which now called James Taylor at Christmas, and Columbia/Sony distributed it in the fall of 2006. Taylor appeared in Randy Newman's song "Our Town" for the Disney animated film Cars in 2006. The song was nominated for the Best Original Song Award at the 2007 Academy Awards. Taylor headlined the inaugural concert at the Times Union Center in Albany, New York, on January 1, 2007. Eliot Spitzer, the governor of New York, was sworn in as the governor of New York.

Taylor's next album, One Man Band, was released on DVD and DVD in November 2007, where he performed with Paul McCartney and Joni Mitchell. The retrospective album came out of a three-year tour of the United States and Europe, with some of Taylor's most popular tunes and anecdotes about their artistic roots; alone by Larry Goldings' long-time pianist/keyboardist. In 2008, One Man Band's digital discrete 5.1 surround sound recording was recognized for its best surround sound recording.

Taylor, along with his original band and Carole King, headlined a series of six shows at the Troubadour from November 28 to 30. The performances took place on the 50th anniversary of the venue, where Taylor, King, and several others, such as Tom Waits, Neil Diamond, and Elton John performed early in their music careers. The proceeds from the concert went to benefit the Natural Resources Defense Council, MusiCares, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, and the Los Angeles Regional Foodbank, a member of America's Second Harvest. www.foodbank.com Taylor admitted to his early drug use by saying, "I played here a number of times in the 70s," the show on CBS Sunday Morning in the December 23, 2007. Taylor has performed this parody on other occasions, and it appears that it was part of his One Man Band album and tour dates.

James Taylor at Christmas was nominated for a Grammy Award in December 2007. Taylor performed about 20 songs by others for a new album with a band including Luis Conte, Michael Landau, Lou Marini, Arnold McCuller, Jimmy Johnson, Jimmy Johnson, David Lasley, Walt Fowler, Andrea Zonn, Steve Gadd, and Larry Goldings. Covers, the resulting live-in-studio album, was released in September 2008. Taylor's new record shows that he is more versatile than his best-known hits would indicate, with the album venting into country and soul. The Covers session grew to include "Oh What a Beautiful Morning," a song that his grandmother played over and over at the top of his lungs when he was seven years old. In the meantime, Taylor and this band toured 34 North American cities with the name James Taylor and His Band of Legends in summer 2008. In April 2009, another album titled Other Covers came out, containing songs that were recorded during the same sessions as the original Covers, but it has not been released to the general public yet.

Taylor held a series of free concerts in five North Carolina cities in support of Barack Obama's presidential campaign from October 19 to 21, 2008. He appeared at "Shower the People" at the Lincoln Memorial on Sunday, January 18, 2009, with John Legend and Jennifer Nettles of Sugarland. Taylor appeared on the final episode of the original 17-year run of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on May 29, 2009.

Taylor made an appearance at The Oprah Winfrey Show's 24th-season premiere block party on Chicago's Michigan Avenue on September 8, 2009.

Taylor appeared briefly in the 2009 film Funny People, in which he appeared in "Carolina in My Mind" for a MySpace corporate function as the opening act for the main character.

Taylor performed the American national anthem at Fenway Park on January 1, 2010, while Daniel Powter performed the Canadian national anthem.

At the 82nd Academy Awards on March 7, 2010, Taylor performed "In My Life" in honor of deceased artists.

He began the Troubadour Reunion Tour in March 2010 with Carole King and members of his original band, including Russ Kunkel, Leland Sklar, and Danny Kortchmar. They appeared in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and North America, with the final night being held at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California. Taylor was a huge commercial success, and in a few places, he played arenas rather than his usual theaters or amphitheaters. Over 700,000 people were on tour, and over $59 million was spent. It was one of the year's most popular tours.

He appeared in Mr. Sunshine as the ex-husband of the character played by Allison Janney, and he appears in Leon Russell's 1970 film "A Song for You."

Taylor performed "You Can Close Your Eyes" in New York City on September 11, 2011 at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum for the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

Taylor Swift, named after him, performed "Fire and Rain" with Taylor Swift, who was named after him at her last concert of her Speak Now World Tour in Madison Square Garden on November 22, 2011. "Fifteen" was also performed by the students. Swift performed as Taylor's special guest in a Tanglewood concert on July 2, 2012.

He was instrumental in favor of Barack Obama's reelection bid in 2012 and opened the 2012 Democratic National Convention with three songs. At the President's second inauguration, he performed "America the Beautiful" on his second appearance.

On April 13, 2009, he competed in the final of Star Académie, the Quebec version of American Idol.

Taylor attended the memorial service for slain MIT police officer Sean Collier, who was killed by Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon bombers, on April 24, 2013. When performing his songs "The Water is Wide" and "Shower the People," Taylor was accompanied by the MIT Symphony Orchestra and three MIT a cappella groups.

In the Thirtieth Anniversary O.C., he appeared with the Utah Symphony and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir on September 6 and 7. Tanner's Gift of Music Gala Concert at the Salt Lake City Conference Center. "The choir is a national treasure," he said of the symphony and choir. Charles Floyd, bassist Jimmy Johnson, and percussionist Nick Halley were among his touring band players who supported him.

James won his first No. despite a 45-year wait. Before This World, 1 album appeared on the Billboard 200 chart. The album, which was released on June 16 through Concord Records, debuted on the chart of July 4, 2015, more than 45 years after Taylor appeared on the list with Sweet Baby James (on the March 14, 1970, list). According to Nielsen Music, the album debuted at number one of the Billboard 200 with 97,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending June 21, 2015. Pure album sales reached 96,000 copies on Monday, Taylor's best debut week for an album since 2002's October Road.

Taylor's 2016 concert in Manila was postponed due to the extrajudicial killings of prisoners in the Philippines Drug War.

The American Standard by Taylor was announced on February 28, 2020. Taylor became the first artist to have a top ten album in each of the last six decades since being ranked No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. Due to the COVID-19 tragedy, James Taylor and Jackson Browne postponed their 2020 tour dates to 2021 in May 2020. The album was nominated for a Grammy in the category of "Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album" on November 24, 2020. The album received the award at the 63rd Grammy Awards, the first for James Taylor after being nominated in the same category in the 50th Grammy Awards in 2008 for James Taylor at Christmas.

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