LISTEN TO OUR FEATURED SONG FOR SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER

Visit our SOUNDS page to listen to our FEATURED SONG for September and October, "Treat Willie Good" from David's critically acclaimed MISSIN' TWENTY GRAND album.

Performing behind David's lead vocal for this song (which he wrote) are Luther Vandross, Charlotte Crossley, Joann Harris (and David himself) on background vocals (with Arnold McCuller and Willie Wilcox added on handclaps); Willie Wilcox on drums and celeste; David Benoit on piano and Fender Rhodes; Marty Walsh on guitar; Bobby Watson on bass; Jody Linscott on congas; and Jerry Hey, Chuck Findley, Joel Peskin, Ernie Watts, and Bill Reichenbach on horns.

To order any of David's recordings, visit our CONTACT/SHOP page.

David's solo show at the Jazz Bakery in Los Angeles has been postponed. Stay tuned for the announcement of a new date.

CHECK OUT THE FIRST INSTALLMENT 
OF "DAVID'S ROAD DIARY 2003"

David has just completed his last concert of the James Taylor 2003 Tour for now, and at the same time, we are debuting this year's version of his "Tales from the Road," which is titled "DAVID'S ROAD DIARY 2003."  Click HERE to read the first of what will probably be three installments. 

Watch for a new "Featured Song" and more "Fan Photos" coming soon, and if you took any photos of David at any of this summer's concerts, please feel free to submit them, and we'll post some of the best ones.  Our FAN PHOTOS page has submission instructions.

• CHECK OUT NEW PICTURES FROM 2003 JAMES TAYLOR TOUR JUST ADDED TO FAN PHOTOS PAGE

• LISTEN TO OUR FEATURED SONG FOR JULY

• DAVID'S BACKGROUND VOCALS FEATURED ON NEW RELEASE BY SANBORN AND COMPILATIONS OF VANDROSS AND RAITT

Check out some just-posted pictures of David from the 2003 James Taylor October Road tour on our FAN PHOTOS page.  Thanks very much to Emily and Diann for providing the shots! 

If you take any photos of David, please feel free to submit them, and we'll post some of the best ones.  The FAN PHOTOS page has submission instructions as well as a variety of photos from the 2001 James Taylor "Pull Over" tour.

Visit our SOUNDS page to listen to our traditional FEATURED SONG for July, a not-so-traditional "summer heartbreak" song called "I'm Waving My Flag" from David's DEMOS CD.

David's background vocals are featured on the "Cristo Redentor" track of sax player David Sanborn's new Timeagain album.  Our February 23 "TALES FROM HOME" includes an account of the recording session.

David's background vocals are also featured on two recently released compilation albums, one called The Essential Luther Vandross and the other called The Best of Bonnie Raitt.  Tracks on the Vandross recording that include David's background vocals are "So Amazing," "Stop to Love" and "There Is Nothing Better Than Love."  On the Raitt album, the tracks that include David's background vocals are "Have A Heart," "Something to Talk About," "Not the Only One," "I Can't Make You Love Me," "Love Sneakin' Up On You" and "You."

You can buy any of these CDs by clicking on the cover images above.

To order any of David's recordings, visit our CONTACT/SHOP page.

• DAVID IS IN REHEARSALS FOR JAMES TAYLOR 2003 SUMMER TOUR

• NEW CD BY JAPANESE SONGWRITER KAZUMASA ODA FEATURES TWO SONGS WITH LEAD VOCALS BY DAVID

David is now in rehearsals for the 2003 James Taylor summer tour, coming perhaps to a city near you.

If you take any photos of David, please feel free to submit them, and we'll post some of the best ones.  Visit our FAN PHOTOS page for submission instructions and to see photos from the 2001 James Taylor "Pull Over" tour.

David's lead vocals are featured on two tracks of a new album called Love Story - The Kazumasa Oda Songbook featuring the songs of Japanese singer/songwriter Kazumasa Oda. 

This CD (cover pictured above) also includes tracks with lead vocals by Bill Champlin, Jason Scheff, Mickey Thomas, Bobby Kimball, Randy Goodrum, Christopher Cross and Bobby Caldwell.  David songs on this tribute album are "Woh Woh" and "Time Will Tell." 

• MORE "ASK DAVID" QUESTIONS ANSWERED

• LISTEN TO OUR FEATURED SONG FOR MAY, AND CHECK OUT OUR UPDATED SOUNDS PAGE

• VIEW OUR NEWLY POSTED FAN PHOTOS FROM 2001 "PULL OVER" TOUR

Visit our ASK DAVID page, where David has answered some recent and not-so-recent questions. 

Sorry AGAIN about the delay in responding to some of the older ones, but please keep "asking" because David really enjoys everybody's interesting questions, and he appreciates the compliments!

Our FEATURED SONG for May (just a tad early) is "Night of Our Lives" (written by Roxanne Seeman, Jay Oliver and Dominic Messinger) from David's EXPECTATIONS OF LOVE album.

We've also updated the SOUNDS page songs that are available on an ongoing basis from EXPECTATIONS OF LOVE and BACK TO BLUE-EYED SOUL.  For the foreseeable future, you can hear "Change All Of That" from EXPECTATIONS, and "Stay Gold," with a rare low-voice vocal by David, from BLUE-EYED SOUL. 

Visit our SOUNDS page to hear the songs. 

We just unearthed some photos sent a while ago by a fan from a Michigan concert during the 2001 James Taylor "Pull Over" Tour and posted them to our FAN PHOTOS page.  They include pictures of James Taylor and band, including David, Arnold McCuller, Kate Markowitz, Valerie Carter, Luis Conte, Jimmy Johnson, Bob Mann, Lou Marini and Walt Fowler.

• NEW "TALES FROM HOME"

• TWO FEATURED SONGS FOR MARCH AND APRIL

Check out David's latest "TALES FROM HOME" in which he discusses some recent session work he's done as well as a Tonight Show appearance last October with James Taylor.

Our FEATURED SONGS for March and April are "Meant For You" from David's EXPECTATIONS OF LOVE and "Look at the Clock" by his 1960s group, The Utopias, with David on the lead vocal from BACK TO BLUE-EYED SOUL. 

"Meant For You," written by David and Roxanne Seeman, features David Benoit on keyboards. 

Here are David's liner notes comments about "Look at the Clock":

This song is believed to have been written by Pam Sawyer and Lori Burton. It would have been the fourth and final single from The Utopias (David Lasley, Julie Lasley, Joan Hughes). Sadly, it was never released, even though it was our best produced record. Joan left the group to get married, my sister Julie went back to high school and I concentrated on songwriting. "Look at the Clock's" 1967 session took place at Terra Shirma on Livernois Avenue in Detroit. Various Motown players contributed, including either Babbit or Jamerson on bass, Jack Ashford on percussion, the Andantes on additional background vocals, either Dennis Coffey or Ray Monette on guitar, and Chuck Forrest on drums. It was engineered by Milan Bogden and/or Russ or Ralph Terrana and produced by Carl Cisco and Roger Bass.

Visit our SOUNDS page to hear the songs. 

• LISTEN TO "YOU BRING ME JOY," OUR FEATURED SONG FOR FEBRUARY FROM DAVID'S SOLDIERS ON THE MOON CD

• NEW "TALES FROM HOME" COMING SOON

Our FEATURED SONG for February is "You Bring Me Joy," one of David's most popular and well-known songs. He wrote it in 1978, and it was recorded by Norman Connors and most notably in a highly regarded and celebrated recording by Anita Baker on her Rapture album. It was also featured on The Best of Anita Baker, released in June of last year.

David himself recorded "You Bring Me Joy" for his DEMOS album and again for SOLDIERS ON THE MOON, the 1990 version you hear here. This track features David on lead vocal, with backgrounds by Luther Vandross (who did the background vocals arrangement), Arnold McCuller, Myrna Smith, Priscilla Coolidge and others. Musicians include David Benoit on piano, Gregg Karukas on keyboards, Jeff Porcaro on drums, Abe Laboriel on bass, Bob Mann and Marty Walsh on guitar and Luis Conte on percussion. 

Visit our SOUNDS page to hear the song. 

Keep an eye out for David's latest TALES FROM HOME, coming soon. To read previous installments, click HERE.

LISTEN TO OUR 
FEATURED SONG FOR JANUARY 
FROM DAVID'S 
SOLDIERS ON THE MOON CD

Our FEATURED SONG for January is David's critically acclaimed cover of Carole King's "It's Too Late" from his SOLDIERS ON THE MOON CD. Originally released in 1990, SOLDIERS was re-issued with 5 bonus tracks in 2000 by Cool Sound, which also re-issued David's DEMOS and LAST DANCE (Rosie). 

The re-issued SOLDIERS features all 11 original tracks plus four alternate takes (of "Soldiers on the Moon," "It's too Late," "Without the One You Love," and "Warm as the Wind") and a new track called "This is Real." Musicians/background vocalists on this highly regarded and sought-after recording include David Benoit, Luis Conte, Rita Coolidge, Bob Mann, Arnold McCuller, Jeff Porcaro and Luther Vandross. 

Of SOLDIERS ON THE MOON, the NEW YORK TIMES said: 

"The presence of Luther Vandross, who did the vocal arrangements, can be felt all over a record whose diaphanous textures and languid tempos echo the ultra-romantic style of Vandross? own albums. The outstanding cut is a dreamy extended rendition of arole King and Toni Stern's 'It's Too Late.'"

Click HERE to visit our SOUNDS page and hear this song.

• LISTEN TO DAVID'S CHRISTMAS SONG! 

• LINKS PAGE UPDATED

Happy Holidays from David! You can listen to "This Christmas, This Year" (from his DEMOS album), which is featured on our SOUNDS page through the end of December.

Check out our LINKS page, which has just been updated.

• LISTEN TO OUR FEATURED SONG FOR NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER FROM DAVID'S BACK TO BLUE-EYED SOUL CD

• SEE DAVID IN JAMES TAYLOR'S BAND ON NEWLY RELEASED DVD AND VHS OF THE 2001 "PULL OVER" TOUR CONCERT

Visit our SOUNDS page to hear David's rendition of "Hot Butterfly" (the Featured Song for November and December), from his BACK TO BLUE-EYED SOUL retrospective CD. Here are David's liner notes comments about this song:

Taken from a rough cassette mix, this is a very rare, obscure version given to me by Gregg Diamond (Bionic Boogie) on the day it was recorded in New York City. A few weeks earlier, I had worked on Gregg's entire Hot Butterfly album (with Luther Vandross and Cissy Houston). I'd come back to the studio straight from a vacation in Michigan to sing the lead vocal for one more song, "Paradise," which became a disco hit in 1978. My 16-year-old cousin Carolyn and my 16-year-old nephew Mark were with me on their first visit to the city. I barely made it to the session on time because our plane was delayed out of Detroit Metro Airport, so I brought Carolyn and Mark along. After "Paradise" was done, Brad Baker (the horn arranger), Geoff Diamond (the engineer) and Gregg suggested I take a crack at the "Hot Butterfly" lead vocal. Luther had already recorded it and had done a beautiful job, but since my cousin and nephew were there -- and I could "show off" a little -- I decided to go for it. I will never forget the surprised and awed looks on their faces as they watched me sing. This performance is definitely one of my favorites, and it certainly includes the highest (recorded) notes I've sung. It's a wild one, but so were all the great Bionic Boogie records.

David, Arnold McCuller, Kate Markowitz and Valerie Carter are the featured background vocalists in the James Taylor 2001 "Pull Over" Tour concert that has just been released on DVD and VHS. (This aired in September on pay-per-view TV.) 

The DVD and VHS include bonus features about James Taylor and 25 songs from the concert: Everyday, That's Why I'm Here, Only One, Frozen Man, On The 4th Of July, Whenever You're Ready, Raised Up Family, Mexico, Steamroller Blues, Carolina In My Mind, Millworker, Sun On The Moon, Junkie's Lament, Copperline, Shed A Little Light, Fire And Rain, You've Got A Friend, Your Smiling Face, How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You), Traffic Jam, Knock On Wood, You Can Close Your Eyes, and Sweet Baby James. 

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