1. Livingston Taylor continues to perform nationally and internationally, and has collaborated with Linda Ronstadt, Jimmy Buffett, Jethro Tull, and his brother James Taylor.
36 Facts About Livingston Taylor
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Livingston Taylor has been a faculty member at Berklee College of Music since 1989.
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Livingston Taylor grew up in North Carolina when his father, a physician, accepted a position at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Livingston Taylor's mother had been a student at the Music Conservatory in Boston.
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At an early age, Livingston Taylor built a repertoire of folk songs.
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When Livingston Taylor was eight, his mother took him and his siblings to Europe, crossing the Atlantic on the New Amsterdam.
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Livingston Taylor picked up the guitar and became quite accomplished by age 17.
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The Taylor family started vacationing on Martha's Vineyard in the early 1950s, and Livingston has spent every summer there.
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Livingston Taylor's parents bought a home there in 1963, and in 1977 Livingston purchased his own 300-square-foot home for $111,000.
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Livingston Taylor refers to the small home as "The Camp".
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Livingston Taylor began playing music in public for pay in 1963.
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Livingston Taylor was one of the first artists to sign with Capricorn Records in 1970.
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Several of the Livingston Taylor children moved north from North Carolina.
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Livingston Taylor left Capricorn Records and released the first of two albums on Epic Records, Three Way Mirror, in 1978.
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Livingston Taylor promoted Three Way Mirror when he toured with Linda Ronstadt as her opening act.
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In 1980 Livingston Taylor released his second album on the Epic label, Man's Best Friend, which was produced by John Boylan and Jeff Baxter.
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In 1982, Livingston Taylor made an appearance on Late Night with David Letterman.
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In 1984, Livingston Taylor hosted a nationally syndicated television show, similar to American Bandstand called This Week's Music.
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On November 21,1989, his 39th birthday, Livingston Taylor made a decision to give up alcohol and pursue a lifelong dream of flying.
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Livingston Taylor bought an airplane and enrolled in aviation classes.
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Livingston Taylor worked with Traum and Petito again on the 1991 release Our Turn to Dance.
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In 1998, an eighteen track retrospective of the first decade of Taylor's career, Carolina Day: The Livingston Taylor Collection was released.
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From 2000 through September 2006, Livingston Taylor was artist-in-residence at Lowell House.
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In 2006 Livingston Taylor released his first studio album in nine years, There You Are Again.
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In 2010 Livingston Taylor released Last Alaska Moon, produced by Glenn Rosenstein.
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Four years later, Livingston Taylor released Blue Sky, a collection of both original songs and covers of some pop classics.
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Livingston Taylor was recognized for his 50-year music career, as well as being a long-time professor at Berklee College of Music.
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Two days later, Livingston Taylor announced the forthcoming release of Safe Home which was officially released on March 3,2017.
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Livingston Taylor's voice has that rich, unique timbre of New England-by-way-of-North-Carolina that he and his brother James have made famous, lending both his vocals and his superb acoustic guitar picking a sense of instant familiarity and comfort.
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Warburg wrote that the opening song, "I Must Be Doing Something Right", a Livingston Taylor original, "has the timeless feel of a Cole Porter tune".
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Livingston Taylor began 2018 with a tradition of shows at the Iron Horse Music Hall in Northhampton, Massachusetts on January 5 and 6.
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In early April 2018, it was announced that Livingston Taylor would be one of three musicians serving as hosts on a multi-day "Roots on the Rails" tour through Vermont in November.
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The First Annual Livingston Taylor Retreat was announced in early summer 2018.
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Livingston Taylor has been a pilot for over 20 years, often making a 40-minute commute from Boston to Martha's Vineyard in his 1964 Cessna 205.
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Livingston Taylor has maintained a close friendship with his former sister-in-law Carly Simon and the two have collaborated several times.
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Livingston Taylor is the uncle of Ben Livingston Taylor, an actor and Indie folk musician.