Jackson Jambalaya

This is so sad. Oh how the mighty have fallen.

That means I'm not!

He ain't pee-doodle without Carly Simon. Just another ballad crooner on a stool in old-age. He'll sell out though. Lot of modern day tokers grew up on him. Reckon he's still doin' war protest songs.

I am convinced that some of you couldn't have a good time anywhere.

never heard of him

I’ll take James Taylor ANY DAY over what I BRIEFLY saw on the Grammy’s last night!

Heard him by himself years ago. Was great then and still good now. Some of you just bitch to be doing it.

Many years ago, a good friend wanted to impress his date because she liked James Taylor's music. He bought tickets for a James Taylor concert at the Coliseum. Instead, when he showed up, they discovered it was Johnnie Taylor.

Always liked his guitar licks and voice.

However he is a flaming leftist.

Flaming liberal.

He’s still alive?

If it sounds good,it is good.

9:54, I presume you mean the City of Jackson, in that no one wants to perform inside the city limits, so to draw a crowd in central Mississippi, they must perform at venues where people will attend?

12:59

Ehhhh, those numbers aren't looking too tough out there. Also, having to make Brandon PD and RCSO heel and not arrest everyone in sight was a much harder job than it should have been.

Fifty years ago, he was in the Jane Fonda, Joan Baez, John Lennon camp encouraging us all to head to Canada. Now he's a street musician with his top hat on the ground collecting nickels. Maybe he'll do some Lee Greenwood patriotic songs, but I doubt it.

When he went political instead of being an entertainer, I quit listening.

I'm assuming that John Kerry needs him to sing "You've Got a Friend" to France again and Paris won't let them come back?

I’ll be there for the mosh pit. His are always bangin

I’m a 40+ year old white male. I would rather take my mistress to see The Weeknd

James Taylor playing on an eight track always improved your chances when at the submarine races…

I've never bought any of his songs/albums. Nevertheless, I've seen him twice (1983 and 2007) and thoroughly enjoyed both concerts.

You boyz and girlz be sure to wear your tie-dye and bell-bottoms...

"Take all the money that we need for school
To keep the people in outta the cold

Spend it on a weapon you can never use
Make the world an offer that they can't refuse

Open up the door and let the shark men feed
Hoover of the future in the land of greed

Sell the Pondarosa to the Japanese
Slap leather, head for that line of trees, yeah, now
Slap leather, go on run, just about to go myself"

Prior to Brandon he'll be at THE COSMOPOLITAN in Las Vegas for 5 nights...he'll be ready for an easy going crowd....I've been to The Cosmo....Looking forward to the Brandon event..

James Taylor should also be remembered for his role as Driver in the cult road movie Two Lane Blacktop. The film also starred Dennis Wilson (of Beach Boys fame) as Mechanic and Warren Oats as GTO. It is reflective of its times, circa 1971, and now somewhat hard to find.

Brandon police couldn't handle the traffic for Earth, Wind & Fire. Took 2 hours to get in.

No thanks.

Friends saw Jackson Browne some years ago and left early because he spent most of the time spewing left wing political hatred. Hope James Taylor keeps it to himself.

"When he went political instead of being an entertainer, I quit listening. February 6, 2023 at 5:30 PM"

He was political the first time you ever heard him. You just didn't realize it.

I've seen him live at least a dozen times over the past few decades. Most of the time in smaller venues like the Brandon Amphitheatre. Always a great show, with excellent backing musicians and singers. The only time I've ever heard him do anything other than play music, was once when emphasizing the need for clean water before starting The Water is Wide. That would actually be appropriate for the City of Jackson.

With a reel-to-reel on the cinder-block bookcase, beads strung in the doorway between the living room and kitchen, and a Buddha holding two incense burners....He was great weed-background in '73. Lord that was fifty years ago! How much are tickets?

You can't get any more mainstream/radio-friendly/lowest-common-denominator than James Taylor. Why would anybody PAY to go and sit and listen to the songs people, HALF-A-CENTURY back, punched-past (on those old push-button car radios), while trying to find a GOOD song? Did he sing anything other than those old whiny, slow, lovesongs that stick in your head, and send you desperately trying to find other songs to dislodge those irritating EARWORMS playing in your head?

Diddywahdiddy sez:
I've seen James Taylor multiple times over the years since the late '70's. A great show at Madison Square Garden with Taylor Swift, and at Austin City Limits.
I'll be there. He is a class act and highly talented.
Much better than the crap seen at the recent Grammys.
Those who "throw shade" on the Brandon Amphitheater venue and anyone who plays there...you need to move somewhere where you will be happy, which probably doesn't exist.
Imagine Dragons
Avett Brothers
Tedeschi-Trucks Band
Marty Stuart
Chris Stapleton
Santana
You idiots who throw shade don't seem to wake up on the "happy" side of the bed.
Best y'all,
DWD

@ 4:41 PM

The first artist signed to Apple Records after The Beatles
7 Grammy Awards (the last one in 2021)
3 Honorable Doctorates in Music
Inducted into the Rock & Roll, Songwriters, and Hit Parade Halls of Fame
Listed in Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Artists of All Time

Odds are it's just your taste in music and ignorance of the artist, that are driving your pointless rant.

1:50PM, what you wrote, only underscores the assertion that James Taylor's music was mainstream, radio-friendly, and mass-market. Rolling Stone is a pseudo-alternative rag, read by pitiful people. It's been that way, for my entire life. The fact that Taylor is in Rolling Stone's "Top 100" would tend to cement his place within the Lowest Common Denominator.

Being LCD tends to make products marketable - there are lots more consumers at the bottom of the pyramid (you know: the widest part of the pyramid), than there are at the top. But that doesn't make such products good (or worth a trip to Brandon).