I am the biggest James Tyalor fan ever! HAHA.. I love this CD. I play it all the time.
My favorite song..."Your Smiling Face" and I also love "Another Day"
Just one more album to add to my JT collection. My kids sing along with me now they are 4 and 5.
He has so many great songs there needs to be a volume 3!

I went to see James Taylor on Aug. 13 and bought this CD the next day. His voice in concert sounds as crystal clear and smooth as it did 30-odd years ago. If you have not seen him live, he puts on an outstanding show! The best part of it is that at his concerts you will find people of all ages-from teenagers to 60-somethings and everyone in between! Anyway, my wife and I already have "Volume One" and play it constantly! You must have Volume Two to complete your set or get the other compilation that came out later. The first two thirds of the album are great up through "Got To Stop Thinkin' 'Bout That". The newer tracks were good, but not classics. Highlights - "Secret 'O Life and "Your Smiling Face". Put "Your Smiling Face" in your car's CD player, roll down the windows and enjoy the perfect summer song!!!

I bought this one instead of his first greatest hits because I was already familiar with most of those and there were some on these I wanted to hear. Beware, the "Enough to Be on your way" contains the f-word (if you want to put it that way) which kind of shocked me the first time I heard it, but considering who JT is, it isn't that far fetched. other than that, I really enjoy listening to this CD as background music, or just getting a cup of coffee and drowning in the words. The music is always beautiful, and my personal uptempo favorite is "your Smiling Face" which features JT's higher range. I was impressed and pleasantly surprised when I heard that. Generally I don't approve of doing covers because the original is the best version most of the time, but with James's style of doing his music, its perfectly fine with me. "Up on the roof", and "everyday" are the prime examples of redoing a song the right way. If you really pay attention to the lyrics, you can get a sense of what JT was feeling/going through as he wrote, and maybe you can relate too. This is a good CD to get, but be sure to collect his others, because if you are in love with this style, you won't dislike any of his others. (Recommended for beginners: JTGH1, and JTGH2)