James Taylor produced a typical collection of familiar-sounding songs on New Moon Shine, his concerns ranging from romance to the life of the working man to political issues like war and civil rights on which he took the expected liberal positions. The album was written, played, and sung with typical craft and care, and was a worthy addition to Taylor's catalog. Taylor's reliability means that his records do not disappoint his faithful audience, but neither do they provide any revelations. New Moon Shine provided four Adult Contemporary chart entries in "Copperline," "(I've Got To) Stop Thinkin' 'Bout That," a cover of Sam Cooke's "Everybody Loves to Cha Cha Cha," and "Like Everyone She Knows," and the album went gold, staying in the charts more than nine months, a good showing for a record that essentially repeated previous efforts. (New Moon Shine was eventually certified platinum.)
Tuesday's show was alright; the venue is beautiful, the tickets were pricey, and James is what he is. We would have preferred seeing him play with his band, and you can find plenty of reviews elsewhere... but,.... Being a woodworking tech geek I was totally enthralled by his drum machine; a big wooden beast with arms and a foot looking thing that pounded out the beat for a couple of songs inclu...
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