![]() ![]() Indeed, Taylor had fallen back into addiction during the London recording sessions, and his line about being surrounded by Beatles had been immediately followed by Still I’m on the dark side of the moon. However, owing to the same problems which plagued the release of the album (namely, Taylor’s inability to promote it due to his hospitalization for drug addiction), the single’s original release only reached number 118 on US pop charts and failed to chart in the UK. The song was first released on Taylor’s eponymous debut album in December 1968 (February 1969 in the United States), and was later released as a single in the UK in February 1969 and in the US in March 1969. Chorus In my mind, Im going to Carolina Cant you see the sunshine Cant you just feel the moonshine Aint it like a friend of mine to hit me from. Taylor biographer Timothy White calls the song “the album’s quiet masterpiece.” The song itself earned critical praise, with Jon Landau’s April 1969 review for Rolling Stone calling it “beautiful” and one of the “two most deeply affecting cuts” on the album and praising McCartney’s bass playing as “extraordinary”. Richard Hewson arranged and conducted a string part an even more ambitious 30-piece orchestra part was recorded but not used. Cant you see the sunshine Cant you just feel the moonshine And aint it just like a friend of mine to hit me from behind. Taylor and Asher also did backing vocals and Asher added a tambourine. The other players were Freddie Redd on organ, Joel “Bishop” O’Brien on drums, and Mick Wayne providing a second guitar alongside Taylor’s. Indeed, the recording of “Carolina in My Mind” featured a credited appearance by Paul McCartney on bass guitar and an uncredited one by George Harrison on backing vocals. The song’s lyric “holy host of others standing around me” makes reference to The Beatles, who were recording The White Album in the same studio where Taylor was recording his album. The resulting pictures - of people and places and signs and situations, faces and forces and cultural statements - have been organized into categories of subject matter that, when viewed in one sitting, seem. The original recording of the song was done at London’s Trident Studios during the July to October 1968 period, and was produced by Asher. Going With the Wind is a collection of photos taken forty-plus years ago and then misplaced and, lucky for us, found again just recently. A silver tear appearing now I'm crying, ain't I I'm going to Carolina in my mind. I think I might have heard the highway calling …Īnd signs that might be omens say I’m going, I’m going Can't you see the sunshine, can't you just feel the moonshine Ain't it just like a friend of mine to hit me from behind Yes, I'm going to Carolina in my mind. The song reflects Taylor’s homesickness at the time, as he was missing his family, his dog, and his state. ![]() He started writing the song at producer Peter Asher’s London flat on Marylebone High Street, resumed work on it while on holiday on the Mediterranean island of Formentera, and then completed it while stranded on the nearby island of Ibiza with a Swedish girl Karin he had just met. Taylor wrote it while overseas recording for The Beatles’ label Apple Records. James Taylor conjured up the ultimate ode to his home state of North Carolina while off the coast of Spain and then recorded it in London. The song references Taylor’s years growing up in North Carolina.
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