James Taylor: One Man Band
Barney Hoskyns, eMusic.com, November 2007
BACK IN THE protopunk wars of the early '70s, we were all supposed to revile James Taylor and his kind. "James Taylor Marked For Death," proclaimed Lester Bangs in the title of a splendidly bracing 1971 manifesto in Who Put the Bomp?
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