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Universal acclaim- based on 4 Ratings
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Positive: 3 out of 4
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Mixed: 1 out of 4
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May 3, 2020I guess you must be a Baby Boomer to appreciate the warmth and style of this man. As critics get younger, it's all more cerebral, absent just the human emotion evoked. I loved it, not for the arrangements, but his ability to put his signature on songs he obviously always appreciated.
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Apr 24, 2020
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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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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.
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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.