{"id":807391,"date":"2020-05-13T07:33:28","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T13:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=998663"},"modified":"2020-05-13T07:33:28","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T13:33:28","slug":"james-taylor-son-henry-perform-american-classic-moon-river-on-the-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/james-taylor-son-henry-perform-american-classic-moon-river-on-the-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"James Taylor, Son Henry Perform American Classic \u2018Moon River\u2019 on \u2018The Voice\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/James-Taylor-on-The-Voice.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/james-taylor\/\" id=\"auto-tag_james-taylor\" data-tag=\"james-taylor\">James Taylor<\/a> and his son Henry performed a sweet and simple rendition of the American standard, \u201cMoon River,\u201d on a recent episode of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-voice\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-voice\" data-tag=\"the-voice\">The Voice<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The singing competition has continued with its 18th season even as the coronavirus pandemic has forced the judges and contestants to work remotely. So Taylor \u2014 who\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/james-taylor-joins-the-voice-978873\/\">serving as a \u201cMega Mentor\u201d<\/a> this season \u2014 shared his performance from home, setting up with an acoustic guitar and singing \u201cMoon River,\u201d while Henry provided a tasteful bit of backing accompaniment and texture on the electric guitar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cMoon River\u201d was written by Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer and first sung by Audrey Hepburn in the 1961 movie, <em>Breakfast at Tiffany\u2019s<\/em>, although it\u2019s perhaps best known as the signature song of crooner Andy Williams. Taylor recorded his version for his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/james-taylor-american-standard-new-album-941697\/\">latest album, <em>American Standard<\/em><\/a>, which arrived in February and featured other selections from the Great American Songbook.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Taylor\u2019s performance of \u201cMoon River\u201d arrives on the heels of a <em>Tonight Show<\/em> appearance where he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/james-taylor-you-can-close-your-eyes-tonight-show-995961\/\">played \u201cYou Can Close Your Eyes\u201d<\/a> with Henry and his wife Kim.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/james-taylor-son-henry-moon-river-performance-the-voice-998663\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Taylor and his son Henry performed a sweet and simple rendition of the American standard, \u201cMoon River,\u201d on a recent episode of The Voice. The singing competition has continued with its 18th season even as the coronavirus pandemic has forced the judges and contestants to work remotely. So Taylor \u2014 who\u2019s serving as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-807391","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-11 06:00:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}