what genre is james taylor
A five-time Grammy Award winner, Taylor was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000. Taylor achieved his breakthrough in 1970 with the No. 3 single  Fire and Rain  and had his first No. 1 hit the following year with  You've Got a Friend , a recording of Carole King 's classic song.His 1976 Greatest Hits album was certified Diamond and has sold 12 million US copies.n the fall of 2006, Taylor released a repackaged and slightly different version of his Hallmark Christmas album, now entitled James Taylor at Christmas, and distributed by Columbia/Sony.