JAMES TAYLOR | Fire and Rain (Reaction) | First time hearing! | I should know more about his music

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Here is the link the original video I reacted to:
• James Taylor - Fire an...
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[@susansapp6136]

Tough song to remember because I knew then .... why. James Taylor went through some tough times with addiction and most of his music hints at that somewhere. For specific on this song, read:
My friend Suzanne had committed suicide a couple of months before my friends let me know. They didn’t know how the news would hit me and kept it from me until we were well into mixing that album. Then they told me about it, so that’s why the song starts with that first verse. I started it in London.
I had known Suzanne the year before I started writing the song. I wrote the first verse and chorus and played it for my drummer Joel O’Brien in London. I had a small basement room. I lived in a succession of basement rooms. This one was fairly spacious. Silver foil on the wall.
He said, “Oh, man, that’s going to be an important song for you.”
When I finished making the Apple album, I was institutionalized at Austen Riggs in Massachusetts. I wrote the second two verses there. They put me in a little room, and I wrote a lot of songs there. It was very productive. I was getting my strength back, I was getting my nervous system back. Writing a lot of stuff.
[The song] is very personal, confrontational and candid. It’s really a kind of blues in that it’s getting out something hard.
It details three different episodes of hard times. The first one learning of Suzanne’s death, the second one coming back to the United States sick and strung out, physically exhausted, undernourished and addicted.

[@susansapp6136]

Now ... listen to it again. It will whallop you.

[@donaldball9265]

Don't interrupt until the damn song finishes! You've got nothing, you know nothing.

[@PERKSreCAP]

You obviously don’t know how reaction channels work. We HAVE TO pause or we get blocked in most cases