''In the Pocket'' is the seventh

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by American singer-songwriter

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and his last to be released under

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before signing with

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. Released in June 1976, the album found Taylor recording in the studio with many colleagues and friends, mainly Art Garfunkel (who duetted with him on "A Junkie's Lament" and also contributed vocals on "Captain Jim's Drunken Dream"),

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(Taylor's wife, who harmonised with him on "Shower the People"),

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(who wrote with Taylor the song "Don't Be Sad 'Cause Your Sun Is Down", a song on which he also played the

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) and David Crosby,

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, and

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, among others. The result of the sessions, which took place between late 1975 and early '76, was a very melodic album and one of his most diverse and polished, highlighted with the single "

Shower the People "Shower the People" is the opening track on James Taylor's 1976 album '' In the Pocket''. Reception '' Cash Box'' said that the song is "a meaningful ballad that will pick up a lot of FM airplay" said that it has "a way with melody and phrasing" ...

", which through the years became a Taylor standard and concert favorite. Released as a single, the track peaked at #22 on the

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charts on September 18, 1976, and reached the summit of the

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charts in the US. Despite its success, ''In the Pocket'' didn't match the success of Taylor's previous album ''

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'', reaching only #16 on the ''Billboard'' album charts (it was Taylor's lowest chart position during the 1970s and also the lowest since his debut album). Nevertheless, it managed to eventually get a

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by the

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and became a fan favorite. In 2008, the album was reissued on

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's budget Flashback label.

Track listing

All songs by

unless otherwise noted. ;Side one #"

" – 4:32 #"A Junkie's Lament" (duet with Art Garfunkel) – 3:27 #"Money Machine" – 4:35 #"Slow Burning Love" – 3:43 #"Everybody Has the Blues" – 2:01 #"Daddy's All Gone" – 3:38 ;Side two #

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" ( Bobby Womack, Darryl Carter, Linda Cooke Womack) – 4:20 #"Captain Jim's Drunken Dream" – 4:00 #"Don't Be Sad 'Cause Your Sun Is Down" (featuring

) (James Taylor, Stevie Wonder) – 3:28 #"Nothing Like a Hundred Miles" – 3:35 #"Family Man" – 3:34 #"Golden Moments" – 3:35

Personnel

* James Taylor – lead vocals, harmony vocals (1, 3, 8, 10), acoustic guitar, horn arrangements (3, 11), bass harmonica (4), backing vocals (4) * Malcolm Cecil –

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programming * Clarence McDonald –

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(1, 2, 4, 6, 7), hornorgan (1),

(2), acoustic piano (3, 8, 9),

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(11) * Nick DeCaro – voiceorgan (1, 3, 12), hornorgan (1-3, 12),

accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed ...

(4, 8),

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(4), string arrangements and conductor * Craig Doerge – keyboards (5) * Danny Kortchmar – electric guitar (3, 4, 6-8, 11),

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(4), acoustic guitar (7) * Waddy Wachtel – electric guitar (7, 10) *

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– mandolin (8), mandocello (8) * Herb Pedersen –

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(9) * David Lindley –

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(10) * Leland Sklar – bass (1-3, 6-12) * Willie Weeks – bass (4) *

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– double bass (5), tuba (5) * Russ Kunkel – drums (1-4, 6-11), percussion (1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 9) * Jim Keltner – drums (5) * Victor Feldman –

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(1),

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(1), percussion (3),

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(8), bass marimba (8), cymbal (8), wind chimes (8) * Milt Holland – chimes (2, 8),

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s (2) * Kenny Watson – cimbalom (4) * Peter Asher –

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(7) *

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– tambourine (9) * Bobbye Hall –

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s (11),

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(11),

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(12) * Gayle Levant –

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(2, 12) * Michael Brecker –

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(3, 11) *

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– saxophone (5) * George Bohanon – trombone (5), horn arrangements (5) * Steve Madaio – trumpet (3, 11) *

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– harmonica (9) *

– harmony vocals (1, 2, 11), backing vocals (4) * Art Garfunkel – lead vocals (2), harmony vocals (8) *

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– harmony vocals (3, 11) * David Crosby – harmony vocals (10) * Graham Nash – harmony vocals (10) *

– harmony vocals (11) * Alex Taylor – harmony vocals (11)

Production

* Producers – Russ Titelman and Lenny Waronker * Production Assistant – Trudy Portch * Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by Lee Herschberg at Warner Bros. Recording Studios (Hollywood, CA). * Assistant Engineer – Loyd Clifft * Personal Management – Peter Asher * Art Direction and Cover Design – Mike Salisbury * Photography –

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Charts

References

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