Good Friends (Livingston Taylor album)

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Good Friends
Studio album by Livingston Taylor
Released	1993
Recorded	April 16–17, 1993
Studio	MasterSound, Queens, NY
Genre	Pop, Folk, Jazz
Length	46:52
Label	Chesky Records
Producer	David Chesky, Joel Diamond
Livingston Taylor chronology
Our Turn to Dance (1993) Good Friends (1993) Unsolicited Material (1994)

Good Friends is singer-songwriter Livingston Taylor's ninth album, released in 1993.

The album is full of skillfully crafted pop songs and classics with a jazzy twist. Taylor includes several cover songs along with his own, self-penned, material. His cover of Bill Withers' "Grandma's Hands" takes the original's simple arrangement (just a bluesy electric guitar, bass and drums behind Wither's voice) and recreates the song into a gospel-choir backed a cappella performance.^[1] Based on the lyrics, the Grandma of this song was a religious woman who “clapped in church on Sunday morning” and “played a tambourine so well.”^{[citation needed]} He also tackles the Wizard of Oz selections, "If I Only Had a Brain" and "Somewhere Over the Rainbow". Keeping with the Chesky Records standards,^[2] as the back-cover reads, this album was "recorded with minimalist miking techniques and without overdubbing or artificial enhancement to ensure the purest and most natural sound possible."