Wow, That's a Good Song: Ben Taylor, "Oh Brother"

Ben Taylor is an artist who I've kept tabs on over the years, albeit casually, so I missed the fact that he'd released a new album, Listening, in mid-2012.  I picked up a copy when I was traipsing about the Electric Fetus in Minneapolis (one of the best music stores I've been to in ages) and finally got around to listening to it today, and it is fantastic.   Taylor, of course, is the son of James Taylor and Carly Simon, and has some big musical shoes to fill.  He is largely his own musical  creature, but sometimes he sounds so much like his father that it's eerie. On "Oh Brother", he pays homage to  his father both lyrically and in vocal styling, in a way that makes me smile a whole lot.

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