One Man Dog

James Taylor | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 29, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Warner Bros / Wea
• ASIN: B000002LHW
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (37 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #33,680 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. One Man Parade

2. Nobody But You

3. Chili Dog

4. Fool for You

5. Instrumental I [Instrumental]

6. New Tune

7. Back on the Street Again

8. Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight

9. Woh, Don't You Know

10. One Morning in May

11. Instrumental II [Instrumental]

12. Someone

13. Hymn

14. Fanfare

15. Little David

16. Dance

17. Jig

Editorial Reviews

James Taylor's fourth album was released in 1972, and reached #4 on the US charts with songs like "Fool For You," "Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight," and many more. The variety of musical styles illustrate the depth and range of James Taylor's composition and performance genuis. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

43 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Could have been titled, "James Taylor, Friends, and Family.", May 20, 2001

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John G. Allred "Jack Allred" (Bentonville, AR) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: One Man Dog (Audio CD)

Still one of my favorite albums to this day. As an aspiring musician in the early 70s, and already a fan of JT, this album knocked my socks off. It convinced me that music should, above all, be fun.

If only music today could be as imaginative and fanciful. The songs on side two are more like movements in one long song than like individual selections.

With Alex, Hugh, and Kate Taylor, Carole King, Carly Simon, Dash Crofts, John Hartford, Red Rhodes, Randy and Michael Brecker, John McLaughlin and Linda Rondstadt, as well as producer, Peter Asher, it's a virtual who's who of late-sixties, early-seventies folk rock musicians, with a little jazz thrown in.

One Man Dog featured his most reliable and long-standing group of sidemen, Danny Kortchmar, Russ Kunkel, Craig Doerge, and Leland Sklar. When I turned to bass, later in my own career, Sklar's primo bass licks on this album served as inspiration.

Any fan of James Taylor who doesn't have this album should definitely add this one to his collection.

37 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Vintage James Taylor With A Lesser Known Album!, October 20, 2000

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Barron Laycock "Labradorman" (Temple, New Hampshire United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: One Man Dog (Audio CD)

I was lucky enough to first see James Taylor live in a small outdoor venue called Avaloch in rural Lenox, Massachusetts in the summer of 1970, after his first album recorded by the Beatles in London had been released and just before the release of the fabulously successful "Sweet Baby James" album by Warner Brothers. He appeared alone on-stage with a full head of long, long hair in a simple denim shirt and cut-up jeans with his four or five acoustic guitars, and for two and a half hours proceeded to absolutely enchant the sprawling lawn-full of hundreds of audience members with a spellbinding performance of all of the work from both of those albums. Although virtually unknown at the time, word of mouth had spread so quickly in the Berkshires area (who still considers him one of their own) that many of us went out to get this album to play before he appeared. The rest, as they say, is history. Everyone there became lifelong James Taylor fans.

This particular album is a curious one for Taylor, following in the wake of such extraordinary albums as "Sweet Baby James" and "Mudslide Slim", and it is a rather minor tone in a career with many such mellow, quiet moments as are occasioned by many of the songs presented here. Yet it is also a very memorable album, and most of us who owned the original vinyl version of this album have upgraded to the CD as it has become available. It seems to showcase different aspects of his talents in that he is much more somber, reflective, and open about his own uncertainties and personal troubles in the songs he sings, and in the delivery as well. But several of my favorites are here, including a spare and lean version of "Don't Let Me be Lonely Tonight", "Back On The Street Again", and "Fool For You". It, like most of his albums, has weathered the ravages of age very well, and it is as welcome on my CD as anything else I can think of. No one sings quite like Taylor, and it is a wonderful album to have playing as you are working your way through a quiet Saturday at home, reading or doing chores or kicking back with a Sam Adams and a few friends. Come on back to a better time, friend; sit on down with us and listen a while. This is vintage James Taylor.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I grew up with JT and absolutely love this CD, relaxing., December 30, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: One Man Dog (Audio CD)

I actually had the LP many years ago. I can remember relaxing and feeling all was right with the world when listening to James Taylor. There is a wholesome rock, but not "metal" quality to his writing which I always felt was a save place to be spiritually. JT takes me to a place where I can identify with his emotions, and work through them through his music. Terrific songs!