Blending folk, country, and blues to create his own distinctive musical sound, James Taylor spearheaded the singer-songwriter movement in the 1970s. Born in Boston in 1948, Taylor began playing guitar at twelve and soon was performing at small folk...

James Vernon Taylor (born March 12, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, born in Belmont, Massachusetts. Taylor's career began in the mid-1960s, but he found his audience in the early 1970s, singing sensitive and gentle acoustic songs....

What could be warmer, on the first really cold night of autumn, than a cozy evening with James Taylor and several thousand of his closest friends? At the Patriot Center Monday night, everyone snuggled a bit closer together when Taylor plucked the first few...

IN THE WAKE of punk and new wave and metal, "mellow" was about the nastiest word you could call a musician. And it certainly wasn't cool to admit appreciating James Taylor, the prototypical soft-rock wimp, and spearhead of the early '70s sensitive singer-songwriter movement....

The Oscars are all about movies, of course, but on this night only music filled the golden guy's hallowed hall.Beyonce, Celine Dion, James Taylor, Randy Newman and Melissa Etheridge were among those who stepped onto the Kodak Theatre stage on Friday evening to rehearse for...

James Taylor still has a friend in Carole King.Taylor and King were a match made in 1969 at Hollywood's famed Troubadour nightclub. They were rehearsing there Tuesday afternoon for a series of benefit concerts coinciding with the club's 50th anniversary.He reached the top of the...