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Old 10-12-2018, 03:53 AM
Finger Stylish Finger Stylish is offline
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Default James Taylor's song "Fire and Rain" (with my RainSong)

If you do a Google search , "James Taylors most popular song"
Fire and Rain will come up as #1.
I try to play this based on the 1970 one man concert James Taylor did on BBC (I think). I Loved the sound of His Gibson J50. In setting up my Carbon Fiber H DR1000 Rainsong Guitar, I have found the Martin Retro Strings give me the closest thing to that J50 sound as I can get. I try play F&R as close as possible to the way he played it way back when. Of course we all fail in our attempts to play like James Taylor. He is a National treasure for sure.

https://youtu.be/1WWXFSAO_sM

PS sorry to post so many songs back to back. It's been a busy summer and I haven't had much seat time. Hope you enjoy this great song.
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Old 10-12-2018, 01:24 PM
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Nice job on this, FS.

I have found that this is a hard song to do really well because the song is so much like James Taylor and his playing style is simply unique. You did a good job!

- Glenn
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Old 10-12-2018, 03:46 PM
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Nice job on this, FS.

I have found that this is a hard song to do really well because the song is so much like James Taylor and his playing style is simply unique. You did a good job!

- Glenn
And JT rarely does it the same way twice.
Thanks for the comments
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