James Taylor
and His All-Star Band
Tanglewood
Koussevitzky Music Shed
Lenox, Massachusetts
July 4, 2026

source: Zoom H1essential (32 bit floating, 48khz sample rate) > GoldWave (convert to 16/44.1, MaxMatch, volume adjustments, track splits, clap reduction) > MVSep (crowd noise removal using Ensemble BS Roformer model) > GoldWave (add back desired crowd noise) > MP3tag (file tagging) > Trader's Little Helper (SBE correction, flac level 6)

Taped and mastered by DavePas63. Please don't sell. Please do not convert to lossy format and upload anywhere.

The All-Star Band:

Luis Conte – Percussion
Larry Goldings - Piano
Dorian Holley - Vocals
Jimmy Johnson – Bass
Mike Landau – Guitar
Lou Marini – Horns
Kate Markowitz – Vocals
Henry Taylor - Vocals
Kim Taylor - Vocals
Drums - Chad Wackerman
Andrea Zonn – Vocals/Fiddle

Notes:

My ninth annual recording of James Taylor at Tanglewood. Steady rain during the first 20 or so minutes of the show, followed by a nice rainbow near the end of That's Why I'm Here. Some changes to the usual set list for the shows I've been to since 2016. Shower the People, normally a late second set song, was played during the first set. You Can Close Your Eyes, which regularly has been the closing song, was not played, with Sweet Baby James making a unusual appearance as the second encore (it wouldn't be a Tanglewood show without it). Never Die Young and Handy Man were performed for the first time since 2018 and Line 'Em Up for the first time since 2017. Whenever You're Ready, T-Bone and Millworker have not been played since at least 2016. [There are usually two shows each year and I only attend one of them, but the setlists generally are the same each night.] Carolina in My Mind, Fire and Rain, Sweet Baby James, Steamroller Blues, Mexico and Your Smiling Face continue as the songs that have been played every year since at least 2016.

Recorded from the lawn, about 30 yards distant from and directly in line with the left speaker. We relocated further left after the first set to avoid some loud talkers. Sound is very clear with no audience noise during the music.

Adverse weather conditions resulted in some fuzziness during parts of some banter tracks. Fortunately this did not affect the music. MVSep was used to remove crowd noise. The show for the most part will play seamlessly without the banter tracks.

Enjoy the show and support the artists.

Samples included in comments, artwork included in torrent. If burning to CD, tracks 1-19can fit on the first CD, the rest on a second CD.

Set 1

01 Whenever You're Ready
02 banter 1
03 Rainy Day Man
04 banter 2
05 T-Bone
06 banter 3
07 That's Why I'm Here
08 banter 4
09 Mexico
10 banter 5
11 Line 'Em Up
12 banter 6
13 Millworker
14 banter 7
15 Shower the People
16 banter 8
17 Handy Man (Jimmy Jones cover)
18 banter 9
19 Steamroller Blues

Set 2

20 Country Road
21 Copperline
22 banter 10
23 You've Got a Friend (Carole King cover)
24 banter 11
25 Up on the Roof (Carole King cover)
26 banter 12
27 Never Die Young
28 banter 13
29 Carolina in My Mind
30 Fire and Rain
31 Your Smiling Face
32 banter 14

Encore 1

33 America the Beautiful (Samuel A. Ward and Katharine Lee Bates cover)
34 Shed a Little Light
35 How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) (Marvin Gaye cover)

Encore 2

36 banter 15
37 Sweet Baby James

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