{"id":804943,"date":"2020-03-06T05:22:47","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T12:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=963347"},"modified":"2020-03-06T05:22:47","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T12:22:47","slug":"watch-james-taylor-perform-teach-me-tonight-on-meyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/watch-james-taylor-perform-teach-me-tonight-on-meyers\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch James Taylor Perform \u2018Teach Me Tonight\u2019 on \u2018Meyers\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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James Taylor<\/a> appeared on Late Night With Seth Meyers<\/a><\/em> to perform his recent single \u201cTeach Me Tonight.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

The song, which comes off his recent album American Standard<\/em>, is a jazz classic by Gene De Paul and Sammy Chan that\u2019s been performed by everyone from Amy Winehouse to Aretha Franklin to Frank Sinatra. In this version, Taylor transforms the track into an acoustic ballad with the help of a few backing musicians.<\/p>\n

Taylor dropped American Standard<\/em>, his take on the Great American Songbook, in February. The album is his first since 2015\u2019s Before This World<\/em> and 19th overall. \u201cI\u2019ve always had songs I grew up with that I remember really well, that were part of the family record collection \u2014 and I had a sense of how to approach, so it was a natural to put American Standard<\/em> together,\u201d Taylor said in a statement. \u201cI know most of these songs from the original cast recordings of the famous Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals, including My Fair Lady<\/em>, Oklahoma<\/em>, Carousel<\/em>, Showboat<\/em> and others.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier this year Taylor also released an audio memoir, Break Shot<\/em><\/a>, via Audible. In the memoir, Taylor recounts his life story and music career, beginning with his upbringing in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The memoir was recorded at TheBarn, Taylor\u2019s home studio in Western Massachusetts, with the interviews conducted by long-time music journalist and former MTV executive Bill Flanagan.<\/p>\n

Taylor will embark on a North American tour this summer alongside Jackson Browne, with the singer\/songwriters performing in arenas and amphitheaters starting May 15th in New Orleans to July 10th in Camden, New Jersey.<\/p>\n