Walking Man - Warner Bros 1974
"I used to deeply dread the end of summer and the coming of winter, the Walking Man song and album being a combination of symbolism about my father and the coming of Old man Winter. I was being very affected by the difficulty of continuing things as free and lighthearted as before. I felt things closing in on me, but I think as a lot of people felt that way around the time of Watergate. Let It All Fall Down was about Nixon debasing the office of the presidency. I was feeling the same indignation and desillusion that most of the country was feeling. Migration was a spiritual piece about transition, illusion and the limits of consciousness, saying there's something much larger at work in life than our day-to-day aims, although the lyrics lacks a specific reference to God. The last song, Fading Away, has a risqué reference to ' something out in the garden I want to show you'. used to call the song Faye Dunaway." James Taylor
Key Tracks: "Walking Man," "The Promised Land"
Note rapide de Rolling Stone : Walking Man sums up the confusion of Taylor's unfocused middle period with its near-stationary title track. (The less said about James and Carly Simon's hit version of "Mockingbird," the better.)
"Walking Man"
