Hourglass (James Taylor album)
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Hourglass is the fourteenth studio album by singer-songwriter James Taylor released in 1997. It was his first studio album in six years since 1991's New Moon Shine. It was a huge commercial success, reaching No. 9 on the Billboard 200, his first Top 10 album in sixteen years and also provided a big adult contemporary hit, "Little More Time With You".
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Released | May 20, 1997 (1997-05-20) | |||
Recorded | May-October 1996 | |||
Studio | Chalker's Creek, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts Westlake Audio, West Hollywood, California Right Track Studios, New York City | |||
Length | 54:51 | |||
Label | Columbia | |||
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AllMusic | [1] |
Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [2] |
MusicHound | 3.5/5[3] |
Rolling Stone | [4] |
The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [5] |
The album also gave Taylor his first Grammy since JT, when he was honored with Best Pop Album in 1998. The album also won producer/engineer Frank Filipetti a Grammy that year for Best Engineered Album. The majority of the album was recorded using a Yamaha O2R mixer and three Tascam DA-88 multitrack recorders,[6] which were early digital devices not typically used by top level artists, as most major label records were still being recorded to analog tape at that time.[citation needed]
The album was dedicated to Don Grolnick who was a frequent collaborator with Taylor and who died during the Hourglass sessions in 1996 due to Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.