Rock and Roll Hall of Famer James Taylor delivered as many laughs as he did hits, as he mixed tunes and jokes at Frost Amphitheater at Stanford University.
James Taylor had only been onstage a few moments on Tuesday when a loud cry of “I love you” from a crowd member rang out across beautiful Frost Amphitheater at Stanford University.
Taylor, who remarked more than once about the beauty of the open-air venue, was in fine voice throughout the night as he rolled, mostly gently, through two dozen songs in a little more than two hours of stage time . “George liked it so much that he went home and wrote it himself,” Taylor said in what was an apparent reference to the well-noted similarities between his song and Harrison’s “Something” — which opens with lyric “Something in the way she moves.”He then got the crowd momentarily excited by announcing that the next selection would be a number about North Carolina.”
The star of the show shared the stage with as many as 12 musicians, who were accurately billed as Taylor’s “All-Star Band.” The roll call for the evening was drummer Steve Gadd, pianist Larry Goldings, vocalist-fiddler Andrea Zonn, backing vocalists Kate Markowitz, Dorian Holley and Henry Taylor, horn player Lou Marini, keyboardist/horn player Walt Fowler, guitarist Michael Landau, percussionist Luis Conte and bassist-bandleader Jimmy Johnson.
“People have been requesting that song,” Taylor said at the conclusion of “Mona” . “Perhaps that will put an end to that.”
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