{"id":2110,"date":"2011-05-22T21:33:59","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T04:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=2110"},"modified":"2011-05-22T21:33:59","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T04:33:59","slug":"james-taylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/05\/james-taylor\/","title":{"rendered":"James Taylor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Diltz-James-Taylor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2111\" title=\"Diltz-James-Taylor\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Diltz-James-Taylor.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"655\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Diltz-James-Taylor.jpg 655w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Diltz-James-Taylor-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 655px) 100vw, 655px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>PHOTOGRAPHER HENRY DILTZ WAS ASKED TO TAKE\u00a0black-and-white publicity shots of singer-songwriter James Taylor. After first setting up in Taylor\u2019s living room, Diltz suggested they head to a farm near the Cahuenga Pass in Hollywood owned by his friends Cyrus and Renee Faryar. Once there, Diltz recalls, \u201cJames leaned on a big post, and it looked so good. But I knew it would look <em>really<\/em> good in color.\u201d Diltz asked Taylor to stay where he was while frantically reaching into his bag for a camera with color film and switching out the lenses. The color shots were intended for Diltz\u2019s own collection, but Taylor\u2019s manager was impressed enough to pick one as the cover of the singer\u2019s now-classic 1970 <em>Sweet Baby James<\/em>. \u201cI thought it was kind of ironic,\u201d Diltz says. \u201cI did what they wanted, but then when I did what I wanted it became an album cover\u2014almost by accident.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHOTOGRAPHER HENRY DILTZ WAS ASKED TO TAKE\u00a0black-and-white publicity shots of singer-songwriter James Taylor. After first setting up in Taylor\u2019s living room, Diltz suggested they head to a farm near the Cahuenga Pass in Hollywood owned by his friends Cyrus and Renee Faryar. Once there, Diltz recalls, \u201cJames leaned on a big post, and it looked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1616],"tags":[1618,1624,80],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2110"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2113,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110\/revisions\/2113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}