JT Songs Ranked
JT is the eighth studio album by American singer-songwriter James Taylor. It was released on June 22, 1977 via Columbia Records, making it his first album released for the label. Recording session took place from March 15 to April 24, 1977 at The Sound Factory in Los Angeles with Val Garay. Production was handled by Peter Asher. The album spawned four singles: “Bartender’s Blues”, “Handy Man”, “Your Smiling Face” and “Honey Don’t Leave L.A.”. “Handy Man”, a Jimmy Jones cover, peaked at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and topped the Adult Contemporary and won the Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. “Your Smiling Face”, the other big hit, peaked at #20 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #6 on the Adult Contemporary chart. The record also contains other Taylor classics such as “Secret O’ Life” and “Terra Nova”, with the participation of Taylor’s then-wife Carly Simon. Here are all of JT songs ranked.
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8. If I Keep My Heart Out of Sight
“‘If I Keep My Heart Out Of Sight’ is JT at his love song best, yearning, aching, sharing his intimate heart moments with us in song, giving us expression of our own hearts, making us the ‘I’ in his song, like the best love songs can do.”
7. Terra Nova
“Terra Nova has James team up with then wife Carly. She even added the last verse to this song which is simply amazing. Their voices work so well together and make you wish they had recorded a whole record together. This was a marriage made in heaven and a shame it didn’t last.”
6. I Was Only Telling a Lie
“‘I Was Only Telling A Lie’ is one of his cousin of country songs that makes me smile. It’s about as close to country as I ever musically get. “JT” is an essential purchase for all James Taylor fans and one of the best records of the 1970s’.”
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5. Secret O’ Life
“‘Secret O’ Life’ is another song with lyrics that one rarely runs across in song. This and ‘Shower the People’ could be back to back philosophy songs on how to live life well. And it ain’t bad wisdom either, much less a very nice song.”
4. Another Grey Morning
“Another Grey Morning’ is not necessarily one of my all time favorite JT song but it reaches a place that is gentle and thoughtful. Balanced perfectly is the upbeat with the down, “Another Grey Morning” being one of the down.”
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3. There We Are
“There We Are is not only one of the most beautiful love songs ever written and recorded, it also has a dedication to the person James wrote it for in it. Near the end Taylor sings : ‘So though I never say that I love you, I love you, Darling I do, Carly, I do love you’. How sweet is that? Never mind they divorced some four years later, back then they were very much in love and this song proves it. The highlight of this album!”
2. Looking for Love on Broadway
“‘Looking For Love On Broadway’ is such a sad song, portraying much of what is off track about modern life, disconnected from others yet yearning for connection, physical or otherwise, and probably telling a tale of man’s yearnings that is as old as mankind.”
1. Traffic Jam
“‘Traffic Jam’ is one of his few dittys and so well done because, of course, most of us modern Western world dwellers have lived on the road thousands of times by now, enough for this song to make lots of emotional sense.”
