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Before This World

James Taylor

Before This World

Seventeenth studio album by the Grammy-winning American singer songwriter

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6.1

Label
Concord Records
UK Release date
15/06/2015
US Release date
16/06/2015
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  1. 7.0 |   Rolling Stone

    With its renewed focus on his voice and guitar — both miraculously unscarred by time and excess — Before This World is the most direct studio record he has made in many years
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  2. 7.0 |   All Music

    The right album for him to make at this date
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  3. 7.0 |   Gig Soup

    The musical horizons have broadened, singer songwriters have adapted, some have gone by the wayside, yet James Taylor remains largely the same singer he was in 1971
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  4. 6.0 |   Q

    Re-formed US folk-rock party animal ponders sobriety and old age. Print edition only

  5. 5.8 |   Consequence Of Sound

    Before This World, though not a particularly remarkable album, reacquaints us with an old friend, one who we wish would visit more often
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