Sweet Baby James

This article is about the album. For the song of the same title, see Sweet Baby James (song).

Sweet Baby James
Studio album by
James Taylor
ReleasedFebruary 1, 1970 (1970-02-01)
RecordedDecember 1969
StudioSunset Sound, Los Angeles
Genre
Length31:51
LabelWarner Bros.
ProducerPeter Asher
James Taylor chronology
James Taylor
(1968) 		Sweet Baby James
(1970) 		James Taylor and the Original Flying Machine
(1971)
Singles from Sweet Baby James
  1. "Sweet Baby James"
    Released: April 1970
  2. "Fire and Rain"
    Released: August 30, 1970
  3. "Country Road"
    Released: December 27, 1970

Sweet Baby James is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter James Taylor, released on February 1, 1970, by Warner Bros. Records.

The album includes two of Taylor's earliest successful singles: "Fire and Rain", and "Country Road", which reached number three and number thirty seven on the Billboard Hot 100, respectively. The album itself reached number three on the Billboard Top LPs & Tapes chart.

Sweet Baby James made Taylor one of the main forces of the ascendant singer-songwriter movement in the early 1970s and onward. The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Album of the Year, in 1971, and was listed at number 104 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.[2] In 2000 it was voted number 228 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums.[3] In 2002 the album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.[4]

  1. ^ Wurlitzer, Rudolph; Corry, Will (1971). Two-lane Blacktop. Award Books. p. 36. Retrieved October 11, 2022.
  2. ^ Levy, Joe; Van Zandt, Steven (2006) [2005]. "103 | Sweet Baby James – James Taylor". Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time (3rd ed.). London: Turnaround. ISBN 1-932958-61-4. OCLC 70672814. Retrieved March 20, 2005.
  3. ^ Larkin, Colin (2000). All Time Top 1000 Albums (3rd ed.). Virgin Books. p. 107. ISBN 0-7535-0493-6.
  4. ^ "GRAMMY Hall Of Fame | Hall of Fame Artists | GRAMMY.com". grammy.com.