Sweet Baby James
by James Taylor
Sep 03 2025
Get the fuck outta here. Couldn’t have started this project off on a worse foot. I’m admittedly predisposed against James Taylor but would have happily been proven wrong. I knew the treacle — but the bad white boy blues? A cover of “Oh Susannah?” Good lord. “Country Road” and “Fire & Rain” are the only remotely salvageable pieces of this poorly sequenced, slapdash piece of Boomer nonsense, and believe me that’s damning it with faint praise. Silver linings: it’s only a half hour long, and things can only go up from here [smash cut to, I dunno, Peter, Paul & Mary] 💣