Every time I tell some one that I love James Taylor, and get nothing but an odd stare in response, I wonder if anyone has ever really listened to the albums that make him great. This album, along with ‘Gorilla’, and ‘Sweet Baby James’, is an amazing record that if you haven’t heard you really should listen to. Anyone remotely interested in the history of music should hear this album for sure. It is a definite statement about the attitudes and ideas of a generation, reeling from Vietnam and Watergate, and unsure where to go next.

The whole record is one of those albums that just blow me away. I don’t really understand how this collection of songs came to be together, only that everything fits, everything works, and I’m just glad they did. I love pretty much all the songs, but ‘Riding on a Railroad’, ‘Soldiers’, ‘Mud Slide Slim’, and ‘Machine Gun Kelly’ are my own favourites. If you like Folk music, or you just want to hear something amazing, this album fucking rocks. A lot of Taylor’s later stuff is very weak, but I can still put this album on and be blown away by it.