And James Taylor… Why?
Today is September the 11th. 10 years ago, a bunch of small-minded and sexually inadequate sociopaths decided to attack this country and killed a lot innocent people inspired by their backwards religious ideals. This is pretty much the mutually accepted opinion of everyone reading this. BUT what isn’t agreed upon is what happened at the ceremony in New York City this morning… James Taylor performed his song Close Your Eyes on his acoustic guitar for the crowd. Why? Because people are lazy and haven’t paid serious attention to singer/songwriters for the last 30 years. Thus, if it wasn’t James Taylor it probably would have been Bob Dylan or Neil Young. All of them are great songwriters and all are horrible singers. Why they couldn’t bother to find a songwriter who can both play guitar AND sing-well continues to puzzle me. So today I’m going to go through a few artists and songs who could have easily replaced James Taylor today and made a better statement other than, ‘This is the best we can do everyone! Deal with it’. I think its time that America passes the torch to the next generation of great singer/songwriters. Enough already.
