Did the Troubadour shows bring back a lot of memories?
They were amazing, but the last time we played there was in the early ’70s and I don’t have a particularly good memory of that period with everything that happened to me [Taylor was addicted to drugs, including heroin, for much of his early career]. But bits came back – the setlists and the people. It was where Carole and I sort of got our start in a way. We shared the bill, we shared a band. And hopefully we’ll do it again. We’d love to bring it to England and Europe. Taylor’s version of Carole King’s You’ve Got A Friend was a major hit Both the Troubadour shows and the One Man Band CD see you looking back over your career. Is it strange to revisit those early songs again? It’s true it does have a lot of looking back and examining things – but I play 50 to 75 performances a year and I always play a lot of the early stuff, as well as whatever’s decent out of the newest material. Have the songs evolved and changed their meaning over the years? The second song in the show is I’ll Never D
