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James Taylor recruits Lee Sklar for Mud Slide Slim And The Blue Horizon in 1971

The singer-songwriter James Taylor makes sweet music—sometimes too sweet. More than a few critics have accused him of ladling on the sentimental treacle a little too lavishly at times, but when he hitswrites songs that will twang the heartstrings of even the hardest-hearted rocker.

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