We continue our look at the music of 50 years agoâ¦
If you had to pick one musical artist to represent the decade of the 1970âs you would be hard-pressed to find a better one than Elton John. With the exception of 1977 (re-hab?) Elton had at least one album and sometimes two in the charts during every year of the decade. It was a remarkable run for he and lyricist Bernie Taupin. And 1971 was a particularly fertile year. Not only did they drop two outstanding studio albums including Madman Across The Water which we will get to later this yearâ¦but they also recorded the soundtrack to the movie âFriendsâ and also released a live recording called 17-11-70 which was a great intimate concert in a New York radio studio.
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E WAS NO more than three, and a small three at that, when he was given his first pony. The following year he went to his first cattle drive. His grandfather, whom he remembered as a man with a fine moustache and a habit of whittling his own toothpicks out of sweet-smelling cedarwood, built the ranch in Archer County, north-west of Fort Worth, from literally nothing. He had stopped the waggon there for no other reason than because he’d spotted a fine seeping spring that would assure the family plenty of water. Lore had it that it was a place without a house, on land that had never been ploughed, at the edge of the Great Plains stretching all the way to Canada. His grandmother, who spoke little, raised 12 children on that stark frontier. All that rooting, with time, became ever more fixed in the arid Texan soil, yet the boy turned out to be not at all what either of them had expected.
Five decades later, she can still remember the high points, like meeting a few Beatles, encountering Mick Jagger or a very young Michael Jackson in the studio, or sharing a bill with Tina Turner. And she can also recall the precise moment when she decided to shut it all down, at least for a long while.
It was the summer of 1971, and Kate Taylor along with her siblings, especially her older brother James was having a moment. Earlier that year, Atlantic Records had released her first album,
Sister Kate. The record boasted contributions from Carole King, Linda Ronstadt, John Hartford, and, naturally, James. The album hadn’t been the breakout hit that James’
The Return of Sister Kate
The Return of Sister Kate
Fifty years ago, James Taylor s sister released her debut album, then promptly vanished from the scene. Now, decades after she traded rock stardom for life in a teepee, Kate Taylor is back
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Five decades later, she can still remember the high points, like meeting a few Beatles, encountering Mick Jagger or a very young Michael Jackson in the studio, or sharing a bill with Tina Turner. And she can also recall the precise moment when she decided to shut it all down, at least for a long while.
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