James Taylor Shares the Story of How He Wrote Carolina in My Mind

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James Taylor Shares the Story of How He Wrote Carolina in My Mind

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Late Night with Seth Meyers

Күн бұрын

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@cleverusername9369 4 жыл бұрын

I'm from NC, i lived in Colorado for a year and was homesick frequently, and "Carolina in my Mind" never failed to make me cry my face off

@terryadcock3574 3 жыл бұрын

I'm from New Orleans, but Colorado is absolutely my favorite place on earth! I love this song, but I always substitute "Colorado" for "Carolina" when I sing it... and usually cry my face off.

@dabear2438 2 жыл бұрын

I'm your neighbor to the south (SC), and love NC... it's gorgeous!!

@maryjbelle Жыл бұрын

Im from New England but it resonates in a way that’s hard to describe. He actually lives and performs in the Berkshires and that is my home area. Sweet Baby James Now, the first of December was covered with snow So was the turnpike from Stockbridge to Boston Though the Berkshires seemed dreamlike on account of that frostin'

@Ncdude25 Жыл бұрын

I'm from NC too but I've lived in PA for a few years. I still get sentimental and homesick when I hear this song.

@Stardust414 4 жыл бұрын

I have fond memories of my parents taking me on Sunday drives--warm sun shining, windows down, James Taylor playing through the speakers. We loved to belt out the chorus to "Carolina in mind" & I remember it like yesterday!!!☀️☺️🎶 Unfortunately, my Dad passed away very unexpectedly a few years ago & I didn't get a chance to say goodbye to him. At the service, we played his favorite JT song & to my surprise I felt a sense of peace instead of sadness. When I'm missing my Dad & feeling down about his passing, I still put on a James Taylor song bc it reconnects me with my Dad. It's like a bridge I can feel but I can't see. Remember: the most important gift that we can offer those we love in our life is our time, our attention & our presence. When they're gone you won't have another chance 💕 I thought I had more time to "do life" with my Dadbbut that wasn't the case. IDK who this msg is for but if you made it this far in the post then perhaps it's you?!? Whatever it is you've been thinking of...don't wait any longer. Do it now! No more excuses. Figure it out. Just do it!

@catrinamcdonald510 2 жыл бұрын

just sending cyber hugs. An older brother introduced me to James Taylor when I was in my early teens and he has been a part of my musical biography since - i´m now on my mid 50s. i shared many special times, memories and daughter/mother moments which included James Taylor´s music. She developed dementia and music was a connector when language was not in her final years. She died in Scotland when we were in lockdown and I couldn´t get to visit her or be with her.....JT is playing in Bilbao next Sept, I´ve never seen him live and I know it will be a joyful experience as well as a night when I will shed a few tears. Hugs to you and your Dad.

@valeriesuttonpayne7413 2 жыл бұрын

I’m sending you hugs, too! JT is comforting and familiar.

@jackvaughan7577 2 жыл бұрын

How’ya Obnoxious, Catrina and Valerie Isn’t it amazing that a Man like James can link together like a Big Comfortable Jumper (Pull-Over) with an ever ending thread, million’s of people in this F**k’d Up World Love all y’ere Comments Jimmy T and his beautiful music’s been part of my life, all of my life also Take care Folks Jack Vaughan Tipperary Ireland

@kevinlance1813 2 жыл бұрын

As a 7th generation North Carolinean let me try to explain in just a coulpe of words how much this great artist and person means. Ask any native of Carolina and they will tell you that whenever they leave home for business or pleasure this is how they feel until they return. Home. If you're one of us you get it.

@JoshuaSobel 4 жыл бұрын

As a Carolinian, it's my civic duty to like this song.

@WyattWinters 3 жыл бұрын

Good man :). I grew up in NC listening to James Taylor and his music never fails to make me miss those days

@fairterr 3 жыл бұрын

@@WyattWinters N.C. is always on my mind...homesick everytime I hear James...thank God for memories

@johnnyrotten6191 2 жыл бұрын

Hehehe.....that's funny, right there...

@teaberrywmn 2 жыл бұрын

I lived in Mars Hill for awhile up on a mountain top with some wonderful prople. This song brings back such sweet memories.

@erin_hall 3 жыл бұрын

I’m from North Carolina, I live right down the street from where James Taylor grew up 🥰

@jormayorccis1028 3 жыл бұрын

Morgan Creek?

@jackvaughan7577 Жыл бұрын

Ya Lucky Thing Erin He’s a World Wide Treasure Take Care Jack Vaughan Tipperary Ireland

@NewMessage 4 жыл бұрын

Having an attitude about your parents music is part of what makes a teenager a teenager. Ad learning to appreciate it again is part of becoming an adult.

@ringodaisy7 3 жыл бұрын

Well said and I agree ❤️

@chellepatino1675 2 жыл бұрын

I love this. Its so true

@kerryn6714 4 жыл бұрын

I love James Taylor. He’s an excellent singer/songwriter/musician & an all around nice guy ✌️💙😍

@vivelaresistance3239 4 жыл бұрын

Every year at commencement, a UNC a capella group sings Carolina and it’s the best part of the ceremony.

@ncsatorialgent178 3 жыл бұрын

I agree. Watched it a few weeks ago inside Kenan Stadium.

@sarahbrinnsmith 3 жыл бұрын

It probably was a funeral. Listen to the song. I've been away from NC since 2018 and whenever I hear this song I remember family and each hour of passing time when life is so short. I've gone to Carolina in my mind.

@RosablueHandMade 4 жыл бұрын

He was just as lovely and genuine at 42 as he is now at 72. The real ones are consistent 😉

@sadiqmohamed681 4 жыл бұрын

Back in the 70s I played bass in a semi-pro covers band, and the keyboard player liked James Taylor, so we learned "Fire and Rain" to do as a slow number to end a second set. It would go down a storm, and I have been a fan ever since. He writes great lyrics, and tunes that are more difficult than they sound. He also love to talk about music. A real musicians musician.

@FLJohnson 2 жыл бұрын

The simple bass line on Carolina is masterful.

@sadiqmohamed681 2 жыл бұрын

@@FLJohnson I agree. The thing was I liked to embellish and would get into trouble for playing fills. We did learn Carolina, and my girlfriend at the time was a music student and would bring a friend to rehearsals so we had two female backing vocals. The drummer even learned to play with brushes but unfortunately we never got to play it in public.

@tinysteelorchestra 2 жыл бұрын

You're absolutely right. You see the chords of JT songs written down, and you think ah, D, G, A, Em, no problem... Then you try and play it like he does and you realise what a great guitarist he actually is - it's much harder than he makes it look!

@ruthlewis5311 3 жыл бұрын

Oh my God Seth, please stop cracking jokes while one of the greatest singer/songwriters tells the story of one of his most iconic songs.

@Datsunofthebeach 2 жыл бұрын

Chill.

@jeremiecollier-freed3170 2 жыл бұрын

No he’s right like literally shut up lmao they aren’t even in the same tier in terms of importance and James Taylor deserves a different level of respect

@usefulidiom 2 жыл бұрын

Exactly!

@rattified 2 жыл бұрын

Exactly what I'm sayin, Ruthie!!

@timwooten6776 2 жыл бұрын

Agreed!

@Jack.333 4 жыл бұрын

Thank You James Taylor. I am still a fan

@Alexalini 4 жыл бұрын

My mom grew up in the same neighborhood as James Taylor, he’s so great and so authentic! ❤️❤️#MorganCreek #CarolinaOnMyMind

@sorenpotthoff3705 2 жыл бұрын

North Carolina is my home. This song evokes the feelings I have for the state.

@valeriesuttonpayne7413 2 жыл бұрын

OMG! Love this musician. Fifty years plus. Still wonderful. There’s no one else like James Taylor.

@funkdragon7659 4 жыл бұрын

Sweet baby James baby!! He is an American treasure✌️🔥❤️❤️

@jackvaughan7577 Жыл бұрын

And a World Treasure Funk Take care Jack Vaughan Tipperary Ireland

@play-fool 4 жыл бұрын

James is sharper than Seth here. Dreamy as hell I love him so much

@maryjbelle Жыл бұрын

Legend and those were the days. The people he knew the places he went. It won’t ever be like that again. Nostalgia

@susiejohnson4530 2 жыл бұрын

saw him and Bonnie Raitt in Tupelo MS in PRE COVID 2019. He was SOOOO awesome and energetic!! he was bouncing around like a teenager. So glad we went to see them IN PERSON.

@traciklaus9639 3 жыл бұрын

I love James Taylor 2021

@PaisleyPatchouli 2 ай бұрын

Love James Taylor...

@ravineseder3133 4 жыл бұрын

What Taylor is trying to convey to Seth is that, at the time, it was no big deal to be an artist on the Apple label. It didn't mean anyone had to live up to a higher ideal, it's just a label. Apple began as the Beatles' project to give unknowns a chance at getting recorded. The Beatles had years of painful experiences with record label sharks and gatekeepers, and so Apple was a way they could stick it to the man and maybe change the way things were done. But as Taylor says, it didn't last long and the Beatles lost a lot of money on it. But too bad Meyers wastes this opportunity to talk with Taylor by focusing on the Apple thing.

@janiceandrus3109 4 ай бұрын

This is one of the most beautiful songs he's ever written so back off

@janiceandrus3109 4 ай бұрын

❤❤❤❤❤❤😂❤❤😂😂😂

@krishnakumarnair4315 3 жыл бұрын

When James Taylor sings, indeed in my mind I'm going to Carolina.....( Anyway for me from India it could be a fairy land on the other side of Jupiter )

@wynnssecret8584 3 жыл бұрын

Krishnakumar.....I feel the same exact way ( and I live in So. California)

@gregdahlen4375 Жыл бұрын

maybe there's places in india like it although idk cuz india may be more densely populated everywhere and a little more tropical.

@dmc8092 4 жыл бұрын

I love him so much!

@teresaweaver1012 2 жыл бұрын

Raising my sons on the Carolina coast was the happiest time of my life.

@JayJoJonny 2 жыл бұрын

JT we’re all going to Carolina with you!😎

@sokratissuckacockalus2408 2 жыл бұрын

James Taylor changed my life

@globalwarmhugs7741 4 жыл бұрын

What a delightful interview. 😁

@YahuconanBell5344 2 жыл бұрын

I love your music brother I was born in 1960 I'm right along with you

@jonschmidt9845 Жыл бұрын

carolina is one of the best songs on earth.

@kansaspeach7727 4 жыл бұрын

Signing with "The Beatles " just a Prelude of JT "To Come." I'm so glad I was nosy, curious, and bought my first CD at a McCrory's five and dime 35 years ago❤❤ Standards is ane "Ace."

@crissugar1016 2 жыл бұрын

He's so very great 👍 enjoy his stories & all his songs.

@crissugar1016 Жыл бұрын

Just visited last weekend for our grandson's wedding to his beautiful bride, had the DJ play " Carolina on my mind" the song is so,so special for us who have to live far from our family in NC.👌❤

@klarastern5597 4 жыл бұрын

He's so very pleasant

@gabeg2434 2 жыл бұрын

I finally had a reason to watch a Seth Myers video just because he had James Taylor on.

@denisehedden5108 2 жыл бұрын

🥀Amazing interview with James Taylor he's amazing and I haven't met a song of his that I didn't like or love🥀☝️🥀

@thomassicard3733 Жыл бұрын

Apple Records. That was such an awesome time!!! The music industry is brutal, but thankfully there are things that happen, along the way, that are blessed WAY beyond the almighty dollar!

@gregdahlen4375 Жыл бұрын

i do miss when james had the longer hippy hair. in my mind i'm going to those days lol

@patriciawilliams7107 4 жыл бұрын

Wow! Thanks for sharing this!

@timfrazier3033 3 жыл бұрын

I’m so upset with North Carolina over cannabis. And I hear this song and just relax.....

@yrulooknatme 2 жыл бұрын

I got to see Jackie Lomax in Louisville. He opened for Steppenwolf. He was using Eric Claptons fool guitar.

@Cyril_Squirrel 4 жыл бұрын

JT was always good visually.

@naldino1 3 жыл бұрын

I was on Formentera for a couple of years in the early '70's. Formentera is only 12 miles long and a 1/2 mile to a mile wide at different spots. The island had no access to the Spanish mainland, the only way to get here was to take a small ferry (the Joven Delores) from the much larger Ibiza. Ibiza had plenty of hostels and hotels, Formentera, not so much. I believe James got the islands mixed up, as I heard this story before, in a recording of one of his concerts. It was very common for people (who had come over for the day from Ibiza) to miss the last ferry, get stranded, and wind up staying all night at one of the only bar/restaurants there at the time, called Fonda Pepe. It is exactly as he described it, but I think the passage of years made his recollections a little foggy. Fonda Pepe is still there, although a little more upscale these days. Formentera is still a beautiful Island, but more overnight options now as well. When I meet James, I will try to jog his memory a bit, LOL. Either way, great song.

@dougfielding8215 4 жыл бұрын

What, you cut the video off without the performance?

@mitchrodee 4 жыл бұрын

Doug Fielding , that’s a separate video.

@fleadoggreen9062 4 жыл бұрын

Exactly wtf

@christopherharrison3607 3 жыл бұрын

You used to work at The children's home on Buckner , James Taylor ?????????

@Caperhere 2 жыл бұрын

Break Shot: My First 21 Years. JT’s audio memoir.

@KraftyKathi 4 жыл бұрын

Stop interrupting him!

@comkid459 3 жыл бұрын

It was so annoying the interruptions.

@orbodman 2 жыл бұрын

He is a pain in the ass. Let JT talk.

@DerekDominoes 2 жыл бұрын

God that audience is irritating. Seth too.

@dieselheart1 3 жыл бұрын

What's with the inappropriate laughter?

@danielgregory9564 3 жыл бұрын

This interview would have been so much better if Seth had just shut up.

@Count-Roflmfao 4 жыл бұрын

First! Also Carolina in my Mind. 👍👍👍👌👌

@victoriasakos6777 4 жыл бұрын

JAMES AND SETH YOU FN BLOW...XOXO

@varietyyachtsvessels6769 4 жыл бұрын

Sharp dresser that James Taylor, at least here he is.

@gregdahlen4375 Жыл бұрын

after all his last name is tailor

@YahuconanBell5344 2 жыл бұрын

James I had no idea you had to go through all that crap

@sambac2053 2 жыл бұрын

Why not let the song play? Shaking my head

@marcomontalvomusic 10 ай бұрын

Please watch my alternate version of Carolina In My Mind called “California In My Mind”. Thank You! 🙂 KZfaq Link: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y5abeKqryLCRY3k.html

@jackshannonmusic7564 Жыл бұрын

Seth sure knows how to mess up an interview

@comkid459 3 жыл бұрын

Seth is not good with this interview. Too bad

@Tommy_Mac 4 жыл бұрын

Not sure why the audience is clapping and laughing inappropriately while JT is trying to tell a great story,,,

@jefolson6989 4 жыл бұрын

They are laughing because he so casually talks about the Beatles. Carolina is a Beatles record if you look at the personnel. Johm on bass, Geoge singing background. JT is a gentle soul, a humble genius.

@Tommy_Mac 4 жыл бұрын

@@jefolson6989 okay. That makes sense. I'm old, maybe a bit out of touch. I bought Sweet Baby James when it came out. 1970, I think.

@jefolson6989 4 жыл бұрын

@@Tommy_Mac I'm old too but bought the greatest hits album in 77. The version of "carolina" that I am used to comes from that- rerecorded with different personel because JT couldnt get the rights to the original. They are quite different! The later version got more airplay and its what most people know. The original with McCartney on bass and George singing backup has added strings and sounds very much like a Beatles tune.

@katieshappell7586 4 жыл бұрын

I was super confused too.

@Theinformation8073 2 жыл бұрын

Want a beautiful man💛💚

@quad1000 2 жыл бұрын

JT...no dummy.

@veleo13 4 жыл бұрын

This interviewer is a little bit annoying

@michaelmerck7576 3 жыл бұрын

He needs to let James Taylor talk and only ask questions when james can finish his sentence

@myenglishprofessor9189 3 жыл бұрын

Dear God the laugh tracks are annoying AF

@gordiesings 2 жыл бұрын

This could've been a great interview but Seth Meyers just had to keep opening his big mouth, interrupting and derailing James Taylor. A good interviewer knows when to speak and when not to.

@Caperhere 2 жыл бұрын

Maybe he was star struck. When Colbert first got his hosting gig, he interrupted every person he interviewed. It didn’t take him long to correct that.

@stevekritzer1030 3 жыл бұрын

I love that song, and find James very friendly and approachable in interviews. However, on this show does the audience laugh on cue or what? I don't think a lot of what he was saying was meant to be funny. I very likely won't watch this show again