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- Summary: The singer-songwriters latest full-length release features some musical and jazz standards from such shows as Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Brigadoon, Guys and Dolls, Oklahoma!, and Show Boat as well as songs made famous by Billie Holiday and Glenn Miller.
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- Record Label: Fantasy
- Genre(s): Adult Contemporary, Vocal, Pop/Rock, Contemporary Pop/Rock, Soft Rock, Traditional Pop
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Positive: 2 out of 8
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Mixed: 5 out of 8
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Negative: 1 out of 8
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Feb 27, 2020Expect reassurance rather than revelation and you’ll find the lesser-worn pages of the American songbook elegantly traced.
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Feb 27, 2020Horns and lush backing vocals do appear here and there, as does a slightly misguided dip into a borderline cartoonish vocal baritone on the otherwise strong "Ol' Man River," but the best parts of American Standard occur in the intimate moments that constitute Taylor's wheelhouse and of which there are more than enough to satisfy.
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UncutFeb 27, 2020A poignant folk-jazz take on Billie Holiday's "God Bless The Child" is the standout and it's all impeccably tasteful - but in a threadbare kind of way. [Apr 2020, p.37]
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Classic Rock MagazineApr 8, 2020A classy, slick, impeccably executed album of covers, but a disappointing successor to US No. 1 Before This World. [May 2020, p.83]
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Feb 28, 2020It's all flawlessly performed and comforting in its predictability.
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Mar 3, 2020The ghosts of more well-known recordings hover over “American Standard,” and they’re enough of a distraction to make one think that a better tribute to these compositions might have been a Taylor-curated playlist of the versions that originally captured his imagination all those years ago.
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Mar 20, 2020Every solid moment on American Standard is outmatched by a one to ten ratio of awry choices for songs that shouldn’t be hard to ruin. It’s almost impressive to see James Taylor screw up songs that are fundamentally easy to cover.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 2 out of 2
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Mixed: 0 out of 2
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Negative: 0 out of 2
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