Sweet Baby James | ||||
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Released | February 1, 1970 | |||
Recorded | December 1969 | |||
Studio | Sunset Sound, Los Angeles | |||
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Length | 31:51 | |||
Label | Warner Bros. | |||
Producer | Peter Asher | |||
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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]