Livingston Taylor - Good Friends

180-gram LP

Numbered edition limited to 500 copies worldwide!

Mastered by Scott Hull at Masterdisk Studios from the original analog master tapes

Pressed at Pallas in Germany HQ—180-gram LP

An album full of skillfully crafted pop songs and classics with a jazzy twist. Originally released in 1993, Good Friends is singer-songwriter Livingston Taylor's ninth album. Taylor includes several cover songs along with his own self-penned material.

His cover of Bill Withers' "Grandma's Hands" takes the original's simple arrangement (just a bluesy electric guitar, bass and drums behind Wither's voice) and recreates the song into a gospel-choir backed a cappella performance. Based on the lyrics, the Grandma of this song was a religious woman who "clapped in church on Sunday morning" and "played a tambourine so well. He also tackles the Wizard of Oz selections, "If I Only Had a Brain" and "Somewhere Over the Rainbow."

Keeping with the Chesky Records standards, as the back-cover reads, this album was "recorded with minimalist miking techniques and without overdubbing or artificial enhancement to ensure the purest and most natural sound possible."

Side A

1. Out Of This World

2. Jacques Cousteau

3. Heart & Soul

4. Carolina Day

5. If I Only Had A Brain

6. Grandma’s Hands

7. Blind

8. Good Friends

Side B

1. Pajamas

2. Save Your Heart For Me

3. Fifth & Vine

4. Bluer Than Blue

5. In My Reply

6. Somewhere Over The Rainbow

7. Thank You Song

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