JT's Six Warner Bros. Albums Newly Remastered from the Original Analog Tapes on 180g Vinyl LP by Producer/Manager Peter Asher and Legendary Engineer Bernie Grundman

These high-quality vinyl pressings for The Complete Warner Bros. Albums: 1970 – 1976 were cut by legendary engineer Bernie Grundman on his heavily-modernized Scully lathe. All LPs were transferred from the original analog tapes into the grooves of a lacquer, to make pressings of unequalled in fidelity and precision using state-of-the-art handmade components. Bernie Grundman and Peter Asher together took care to ensure the final pressing will precisely reproduce the albums James Taylor created almost 50 years ago.

Between 1970 and 1976, James Taylor released six albums with Warner Bros. Records that became the foundation for his unparalleled career. Rhino pays tribute to the legendary singer/songwriter with a new collection that introduces newly remastered versions of all his Warner Bros. albums. This collection brings several albums back into print on 180g vinyl for the first time in many years. Each album in the set has been remastered, a process overseen by Peter Asher, who signed Taylor to the Beatles' Apple Records label in 1968, worked as his manager for 25 years, and originally produced several of these albums. 

In the collection's liner notes Asher writes: "Revisiting these albums several decades later has been revelatory, nostalgic, and exciting. I have heard bits and pieces frequently over the years, of course, but listening with concentration and in detail to each of the original tapes without interruption has been a thrilling luxury."

The Warner Bros. Albums: 1970-1976 includes: Sweet Baby James (1970), Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon (1971), One Man Dog (1972), Walking Man (1974), Gorilla (1975), and In the Pocket (1976). The collection is filled with some of Taylor's most iconic and beloved songs like "Sweet Baby James," "Fire And Rain," "Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight," "Walking Man," "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)," "Mexico," "Shower The People" and "You've Got A Friend," the later which was Taylor's first No. 1 hit and earned him his first Grammy Award (Best Male Pop Vocal) in 1971. 

The collection also offers up some spectacular deep cuts like his acoustic lullaby "You Can Close Your Eyes" from Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon; the 10-minute song cycle that closes One Man Dog; "Rock 'n' Roll Music Is Now" from Walking Man, which features backing vocals by Paul and Linda McCartney; and "Don't Be Sad 'Cause Your Sun Is Down" from In the Pocket, a song Taylor wrote and recorded with Stevie Wonder.

"These are the best-sounding transfers I have ever heard of the six albums from the seminal period in Taylor's career – I only wish the preceding release, his lone LP for Apple, enjoyed the same treatment."
—Ken Kessler, Hi-Fi News

Features:
• The Complete Warner Bros. Albums: 1970-1976
• 180g vinyl 6LP box set
• Remastering overseen by producer/manager Peter Asher who also provides liner notes
• Cut from the original analog tapes by engineer Bernie Grundman
• Includes Sweet Baby James (1970), Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon (1971), One Man Dog (1972), Walking Man (1974), Gorilla (1975) & In the Pocket (1976)