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{{for|the 2013 film|Never Die Young (film)}}
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{{Infobox album
{{Infobox album
| name = Never Die Young
| name = Never Die Young
| type = [[album]]
| type = album
| artist = [[James Taylor]]
| artist = [[James Taylor]]
| cover = James_Taylor_-_Never_Die_Young.jpg
| cover = James_Taylor_-_Never_Die_Young.jpg
| alt =
| alt =
| released = {{Start date|1988|01}}
| released = {{Start date|1988|01}}
| recorded =
| recorded = 1987
| venue =
| venue =
| studio = [[Power Station (recording studio)|Power Station]], New York City
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| studio =
| genre = [[Rock music|Rock]]
| genre = Rock
| length = {{Duration|m=40|s=14}}
| length = {{Duration|m=40|s=18}}
| label = [[Columbia Records|Columbia/Legacy]]
| label = [[Columbia Records|Columbia/Legacy]]
| producer = [[Don Grolnick]]
| producer = [[Don Grolnick]]
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| next_title = [[New Moon Shine]]
| next_title = [[New Moon Shine]]
| next_year = 1991
| next_year = 1991
| misc = {{Singles
| name = Never Die Young
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| type = studio
| single1 = Never Die Young
| single1date = 1988
| single2 = Baby Boom Baby
| single2date = 1988
| single3 = Sweet Potato Pie
| single3date = 1988
}}
}}
}}


{{Album ratings
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{Allmusic|class=album|id=r19690}}</ref>
| rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r19690}}</ref>
| rev2 =
| rev2 = ''[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
| rev2Score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin|title=Encyclopedia of Popular Music|year=2007|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|edition=4th|isbn=978-0195313734|title-link=Encyclopedia of Popular Music}}</ref>
| rev2Score =
|rev3 = [[MusicHound]]
|rev3 = [[MusicHound]]
|rev3score = 2/5<ref name="MusicHound">{{cite book|last1=Graff|first1=Gary|last2=Durchholz|first2=Daniel (eds)|title=MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide|publisher=Visible Ink Press|location=Farmington Hills, MI|year=1999|isbn=1-57859-061-2|page=1125}}</ref>
|rev3score = 2/5<ref name="MusicHound">{{cite book|editor-last1=Graff|editor-first1=Gary|editor-last2=Durchholz|editor-first2=Daniel|title=MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide|publisher=Visible Ink Press|location=Farmington Hills, MI|year=1999|isbn=1-57859-061-2|page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781578590612/page/1125 1125]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781578590612/page/1125}}</ref>
|rev5 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
|rev5 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
|rev5score = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/james-taylor/albumguide |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130105161220/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/james-taylor/albumguide |title=James Taylor: Album Guide |publisher=[[Rolling Stone|rollingstone.com]] |archivedate=January 5, 2013 |accessdate=October 27, 2015 }}</ref>
|rev5score = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/james-taylor/albumguide |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130105161220/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/james-taylor/albumguide |title=James Taylor: Album Guide |publisher=[[Rolling Stone|rollingstone.com]] |archivedate=January 5, 2013 |accessdate=October 27, 2015 }}</ref>
}}
}}


'''''Never Die Young''''' is [[singer-songwriter]] [[James Taylor]]'s twelfth studio album. It was released in 1988, three years after his previous effort, ''[[That's Why I'm Here]]''. The album reached #25 on the [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]] and eventually was certified [[Platinum record|Platinum]] by the [[RIAA]].
'''''Never Die Young''''' is the twelfth studio album by singer-songwriter [[James Taylor]] released in 1988, three years after his previous effort, ''[[That's Why I'm Here]]''. The album reached No. 25 on the [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]] and eventually was certified [[Platinum record|Platinum]] by the [[RIAA]]. It features the title track, which peaked at No. 80 on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]], becoming the only charting single from the album.


''[[Cash Box]]'' said of the title track that the "lyrics are, as always, a dazzling string of pearls that mesmerize your heart while the musical feel covers you like a warm breeze."<ref name=cb>{{cite magazine|title=Single Releases|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/80s/1988/CB-1988-02-06.pdf|magazine=Cash Box|date=February 6, 1988|accessdate=2022-12-21|page=10}}</ref> ''[[Cash Box]]'' said of "Baby Boom Baby" that "Taylor again defines the agonizingly beautiful attainment of everything and really nothing at all, life's passage and passing."<ref name=cb2>{{cite magazine|title=Single Releases|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/80s/1988/CB-1988-06-18.pdf|magazine=Cash Box|date=June 18, 1988|accessdate=2022-12-21|page=8}}</ref> ''[[Cash Box]]'' said of "Sweet Potato Pie" that it contains "smooth yet deceptively deep material."<ref name=cb3>{{cite magazine|title=Single Releases|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/80s/1988/CB-1988-11-19.pdf|magazine=Cash Box|date=November 19, 1988|accessdate=2022-12-21|page=13}}</ref>
The album features the title track, which managed to peak at #80 on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]], becoming the only charting single from the album.

[[James Taylor]] sings "Sweet Potato Pie" as a duet with [[Ray Charles]] on Charles' 2004 Grammy Winning album ''[[Genius Loves Company]]''.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/genius-loves-company-mw0000383746 | title=Genius Loves Company - Ray Charles &#124; Album &#124; AllMusic | website=[[AllMusic]] }}</ref>


==Track listing==
==Track listing==
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#"First of May" – 4:01
#"First of May" – 4:01


==Personnel==
== Personnel ==
* James Taylor – lead vocals, [[guitar]]
* James Taylor – lead vocals, guitars
* [[Bob Mann (guitarist)|Bob Mann]] – guitar
* [[Don Grolnick]] – keyboards
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* [[Clifford Carter]] – synthesizer programming
* Jeff Mironov – additional guitars (2, 6)
* [[Dan Dugmore]] – [[banjo]], pedal steel guitar
* [[Don Grolnick]] – [[keyboard (instrument)|keyboards]]
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* [[Bill Payne]] – [[synthesizer]] (2, 4)
* Robbie Kilgore – synthesizer programming
* Robbie Kilgore – synthesizer programming
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* [[Bill Payne]] – synthesizers (2, 4)
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* Clifford Carter – synthesizer programming
* [[Leland Sklar]] – bass guitar
* [[Bob Mann (guitarist)|Bob Mann]] – guitars
* [[Jay Leonhart]] – acoustic bass (5)
* Jeff Mironov – additional guitars (2, 6)
* [[Carlos Vega]] – [[drum]]s, [[percussion instrument|percussion]]
* [[Dan Dugmore]] – [[banjo]], [[pedal steel guitar]]
* [[Leland Sklar]] – bass guitar (1-4, 6-10)
* [[Jay Leonhart]] – [[acoustic bass]] (5)
* [[Carlos Vega]] – drums, percussion
* "Cafe" Edison A. da Silva – percussion (10)
* "Cafe" Edison A. da Silva – percussion (10)
* [[Michael Brecker]] – [[tenor saxophone]] (2, 3)
* [[Michael Brecker]] – tenor saxophone (2, 3)
* [[Mark O'Connor]] – [[violin]] (4, 5)
* [[Mark O'Connor]] – violin (4, 5)
* [[Greg "Fingers" Taylor]] – [[harmonica]] (8)
* [[Greg "Fingers" Taylor]] – [[harmonica]] (8)
* [[Rosemary Butler]] – backing vocals
* [[Rosemary Butler (singer)|Rosemary Butler]] – backing vocals
* [[Arnold McCuller]] – backing vocals
* [[Arnold McCuller]] – backing vocals
* Lani Groves – additional backing vocals (1, 6, 10)
* Lani Groves – additional backing vocals (1, 6, 10)
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* Digital Editing – Rhonda Schoen
* Digital Editing – Rhonda Schoen
* Mastered by [[Greg Calbi]] at Sterling Sound (New York, NY).
* Mastered by [[Greg Calbi]] at Sterling Sound (New York, NY).
* Wolf Photos – [[Jim Brandenburg]]
* Wolf Photos – [[Jim Brandenburg (photographer)|Jim Brandenburg]]
* J.T. Photos – Rudy Molacek
* J.T. Photos – Rudy Molacek
* Art Direction – Marc Balet
* Art Direction – [[Marc Balet]]


==References==
==References==
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[[Category:1988 albums]]
[[Category:1988 albums]]

Latest revision as of 16:57, 23 August 2024

For the 2013 film, see Never Die Young (film).

Never Die Young
Studio album by
James Taylor
ReleasedJanuary 1988 (1988-01)
Recorded1987
StudioPower Station, New York City
GenreRock
Length40:18
LabelColumbia/Legacy
ProducerDon Grolnick
James Taylor chronology
Classic Songs
(1985) 		Never Die Young
(1988) 		New Moon Shine
(1991)
Singles from Never Die Young
  1. "Never Die Young"
    Released: 1988
  2. "Baby Boom Baby"
    Released: 1988
  3. "Sweet Potato Pie"
    Released: 1988
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[2]
MusicHound2/5[3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[4]

Never Die Young is the twelfth studio album by singer-songwriter James Taylor released in 1988, three years after his previous effort, That's Why I'm Here. The album reached No. 25 on the Billboard 200 and eventually was certified Platinum by the RIAA. It features the title track, which peaked at No. 80 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the only charting single from the album.

Cash Box said of the title track that the "lyrics are, as always, a dazzling string of pearls that mesmerize your heart while the musical feel covers you like a warm breeze."[5] Cash Box said of "Baby Boom Baby" that "Taylor again defines the agonizingly beautiful attainment of everything and really nothing at all, life's passage and passing."[6] Cash Box said of "Sweet Potato Pie" that it contains "smooth yet deceptively deep material."[7]

James Taylor sings "Sweet Potato Pie" as a duet with Ray Charles on Charles' 2004 Grammy Winning album Genius Loves Company.[8]

Track listing

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All songs were written by James Taylor, except where noted.

  1. "Never Die Young" – 4:24
  2. "T-Bone" (Bill Payne, Taylor) – 3:47
  3. "Baby Boom Baby" (Taylor, Zachary Wiesner) – 4:59
  4. "Runaway Boy" – 4:18
  5. "Valentine's Day" – 2:35
  6. "Sun on the Moon" – 4:09
  7. "Sweet Potato Pie" – 3:30
  8. "Home by Another Way" (Timothy Mayer, Taylor) – 3:50
  9. "Letter in the Mail" – 4:41
  10. "First of May" – 4:01

Personnel

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Production

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  • Producer – Don Grolnick
  • Production Coordinator – Peter Stiglin
  • Recorded and Mixed by James Farber
  • Assistant Engineer – Don Rodenbach
  • Recorded and Mixed at The Power Station (New York, NY).
  • Guitar and Piano Technician – Edd Kolakowski
  • Digital Editing – Rhonda Schoen
  • Mastered by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound (New York, NY).
  • Wolf Photos – Jim Brandenburg
  • J.T. Photos – Rudy Molacek
  • Art Direction – Marc Balet

References

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  1. ^ Never Die Young at AllMusic
  2. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
  3. ^ Graff, Gary; Durchholz, Daniel, eds. (1999). MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Farmington Hills, MI: Visible Ink Press. p. 1125. ISBN 1-57859-061-2.
  4. ^ "James Taylor: Album Guide". rollingstone.com. Archived from the original on January 5, 2013. Retrieved October 27, 2015.
  5. ^ "Single Releases" (PDF). Cash Box. February 6, 1988. p. 10. Retrieved December 21, 2022.
  6. ^ "Single Releases" (PDF). Cash Box. June 18, 1988. p. 8. Retrieved December 21, 2022.
  7. ^ "Single Releases" (PDF). Cash Box. November 19, 1988. p. 13. Retrieved December 21, 2022.
  8. ^ "Genius Loves Company - Ray Charles | Album | AllMusic". AllMusic.
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