James Taylor on Taylor Swift
You've performed with Taylor Swift.
She and I did a benefit together before she took off. We met then, her parents had played her a lot of my music when she was growing up and her mother told Taylor she named her after me. It was lovely to meet her and she seemed like a nice, young, earnest person trying to find her way in the music business. The next time I met her she was doing a company picnic. We hung out in the dressing room and she said, "I'm finishing my tour in a couple of weeks, will you come out on stage at Madison Square Garden and sing with me?" and I said, "Sure." She hasn't changed much—her circumstances have changed and she's handling it quite well, but she's outgrowing the phase she was first in.
You get a feeling with her latest album that she's becoming less country.
Yeah, I think so, too. The first stuff she did was in Nashville in a country context and she's becoming herself more. She's 22 now, she was 18 or 19 when we met. I think she's finding her own voice more and she sounds more like what she wants to sound like than when she was first being interpreted by people who produced her.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...googlenews_wsj
Can't wait for Taylor's new album! <3
I wonder why. Or maybe she just started watching PLL
