James Taylor: Sweet Baby James (Warner Bros.)
Ben Edmonds, Fusion, 15 May 1970
JAMES TAYLOR was the first artist signed to the Beatles Apple label, and ironically, the first to leave it as well. While there, he produced an album so effective in its understatement that it went almost unnoticed.
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