Skip, you're correct in your musical analysis, of course. But in this case, I was referring only to public perception and pop-market credibility, not actual musical content. In my own purview, Jackson got to play the rock'n'roll star at least for a while during the Eagles era, while James Taylor has always been a warm snuggle-bunny due to things like "You've Got a Friend." I just thought Taylor was better suited to your own argument about general public perception and tastes than Taylor - Browne was MTV for at least a while, while Taylor has been VH1 since before the station existed - but, as always, to each his own! I do like your "Bill Evans" analogy, though. Steve Smith ssmith36@sprynet.com -----Original Message----- From: skip Heller [mailto:velaires@earthlink.net] Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 1:33 PM on 6/3/02 10:20 AM, Steve Smith at ssmith36@sprynet.com wrote:
Skip is on the money here, through I'd perhaps substitute "James Taylor" for "Jackson Browne,"
And here we disagree. James Taylor is responsible for some of the most beautiful and unconventional chord progressions of the 1970's (check out "If I Keep My Heart Out Of Sight" or "Chanson Francais") while Jackson Browne was -- during RUNNING ON EMPTY -- turning out stuff like "The Road" (which surely puts him in Fogelberg territory). As a guitar player, I always thought of James as the Bill Evans of fingerpickers.