In the Pocket

by James Taylor

In the Pocket cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 10 June 1976
  • Label: Warner Bros.
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 44:56
  • Community rating: 3.13/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Surrounded by a massive cast of elite session players and guest vocalists, the renowned songwriter delivers an immaculately produced soft rock offering. The recording leans heavily into R&B and soul pop, moving further away from the sparse acoustic folk of his earliest successes.

Genres

Descriptors: Folk, melodic

Tracklist

  1. Shower the People (4:33)
  2. A Junkie's Lament (3:30)
  3. Money Machine (4:35)
  4. Slow Burning Love (3:43)
  5. Everybody Has the Blues (2:03)
  6. Daddy's All Gone (3:39)
  7. Woman's Gotta Have It (4:20)
  8. Captain Jim's Drunken Dream (4:03)
  9. Don't Be Sad 'Cause Your Sun Is Down (3:29)
  10. Nothing like a Hundred Miles (3:43)
  11. Family Man (3:38)
  12. Golden Moments (3:36)

Credits

  • James Taylor - primary artist, acoustic guitar, arranged by [horns], backing vocals, electric guitar, harmonica, harmony vocals, written-by
  • Clarence McDonald - accordion, instruments [hornorgan], keyboards, piano, synthesizer
  • Nick DeCaro - accordion, arranged by [strings], instruments [hornorgan], instruments [voiceorgan]
  • Danny Kortchmar - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, mandolin
  • Carly Simon - backing vocals, harmony vocals
  • Herb Pedersen - banjo
  • Leland Sklar - bass
  • Willie Weeks - bass

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