James Taylor reissues?

"One Man Dog" is from 1990. The cover is James poling a small boat with a dog right at his feet.

I have the Audio Fidelity gold cd and regular cd of "Mud Slide Slim". The Audio Fidelity is an improvement. It sounds more vivid with better detail.

I made a mistake there. "One Man Dog" is from 1972. The cd was reissued in 1990.

Sweet Baby James and Mud Slide Slim are both available on Audio Fidelity gold cds and you should definitely get them if you like James.

I was listening to a live album by James and he told the story about how he wrote Sweet Baby James. When James came back from England he was driving to North Carolina to visit his brother Alex and his wife who had just had a baby boy whom Alex had named James after his brother. James decided to write a lullaby for the baby as a gift and wrote Sweet Baby James. I think the elder James kept the songwriter's royalties though.

James didn't want the album to be named Sweet Baby James because he didn't want people to think it referred to him. James was a really shy person at that time. The record company knew that the song would be a big hit and insisted the title be Sweet Baby James.

I don't know if that is all common knowledge, I just heard it recently so I thought I'd pass it along.