Sister Kate [Import]

Kate Taylor | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Format: Import
• ASIN: B000009GE5
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,504,290 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Kate Taylor is the younger sister of James Taylor, who plays on this album along with Linda Ronstadt, Carol King, J.D. Souther, Bernie Leadon, Danny Kortchmar, Merry Clayton, John Hartford, Peter Asher, Russ Kunkel & Lee Sklar. It reached number 88 on the Billboard charts when originally released in 1971 on Cotillion Records. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sister Kate, August 7, 2000

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Hearing the beautiful, rich voice of Kate Taylor is pure pleasure. For the uninitiated, I believe hers is a timbre reminiscent of Laura Nyro's. This is a good collection of tunes -- upbeat as well as ballads -- with a very seventies sound to the arrangements. For example, the fat horns on "Look at Granny Run, Run," or the funky guitar throughout the album. (Hats off also to drummer Russ Kunkel, but I digress.) Gospel, blues, bluegrass, and even boogie-woogie flavors are lurking here. Well, we're talking American music. Kate really belts it out on "Sweet Honesty," however I maintain "You Can Close Your Eyes" is the centerpiece of this lovely, feisty, soulful work.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Lost Classic, July 25, 2008

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Bruce Eder "recording maven" (New York, NY) - See all my reviews
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James Taylor's sister Kate has carved out a cult following for herself in music since emerging in the early 1970's -- but if SISTER KATE had gotten the exposure it deserved, she'd have given James a run for his money, and been more prominent than siblings Alex or Livingston Taylor. Working with most of the same musicians who appeared on Carole King's Tapestry, Taylor proves a powerful balladeer, able to cross effortlessly from pop to blues to country to soul, and Peter Asher's production gives her settings that are alternately (and sometimes simultaneously) lush and lean, with King herself, as well as Merry Clayton and Linda Ronstadt singing backup. This is a stunning record from beginning to end, the kind that i love to give as gifts, especially as it's now out in an affordable (and beautifully remastered) US edition, as opposed to the hyper-expensive Japanese CD previously available. Brava Sister Kate!!!!!!!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars waited many years for this reissue, August 11, 2008

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Paul A. Amato (hollywood, CA, USA) - See all my reviews
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I loved this LP when it was released in 1971. Some of the top musicians of the day are on this, and it was produced by Peter Asher. Kate Taylor still records and performs (check out her recent release "Beautiful Road" available here), but this 37 year old collection holds up remarkably well. I received my copy from Amazon last week, and have been playing nonstop.