Hourglass (James Taylor album)

Hourglass
Studio album by
James Taylor
ReleasedMay 20, 1997 (1997-05-20)
RecordedMay–October 1996
StudioChalker's Creek, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts
Westlake Audio, West Hollywood, California
Right Track Studios, New York City
Length54:51
LabelColumbia
Producer
James Taylor chronology
Live
(1993) 		Hourglass
(1997) 		Greatest Hits Volume 2
(2000)
Singles from Hourglass
  1. "Line 'Em Up"
    Released: 1997
  2. "Enough to Be On Your Way"
    Released: 1997
  3. "Little More Time With You"
    Released: 1997
  4. "Ananas"
    Released: 1997
  5. "Jump Up Behind Me"
    Released: 1997
  6. "Another Day"
    Released: 1998
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[2]
MusicHound3.5/5[3]
Rolling Stone[4]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[5]

Hourglass is the fourteenth studio album by singer-songwriter James Taylor released in 1997. It was his first studio album in six years since 1991's New Moon Shine. It was a huge commercial success, reaching No. 9 on the Billboard 200, his first Top 10 album in sixteen years and also provided a big adult contemporary hit, "Little More Time With You".

The album also gave Taylor his first Grammy since JT, when he was honored with Best Pop Album in 1998. The album also won producer/engineer Frank Filipetti a Grammy that year for Best Engineered Album. The majority of the album was recorded using a Yamaha O2R mixer and three Tascam DA-88 multitrack recorders,[6] which were early digital devices not typically used by top level artists, as most major label records were still being recorded to analog tape at that time.[citation needed]

The album was dedicated to Don Grolnick who was a frequent collaborator with Taylor and who died during the Hourglass sessions in 1996 due to Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

  1. ^ AllMusic review
  2. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
  3. ^ Graff, Gary; Durchholz, Daniel, eds. (1999). MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Farmington Hills, MI: Visible Ink Press. p. 1125. ISBN 1-57859-061-2.
  4. ^ Rolling Stone review
  5. ^ "James Taylor: Album Guide". rollingstone.com. Archived from the original on January 5, 2013. Retrieved October 27, 2015.
  6. ^ Filipetti, Frank (May 29, 2016). "Frank Filipetti Facebook comment". Facebook.