James Talley

James Talley is a man of many roles -- singer-songwriter, guitarist, and recording artist. He can sound like a rival to
Stevie Ray Vaughan on numbers like "Bluesman," or a genuinely soulful John Denver on numbers like "Alabama Summertime," and has also crossed swords with Steve Goodman on "Everybody Loves a Lovesong" -- and he's written one romantic masterpiece, "Up from Georgia," one of the most achingly beautiful love songs to come out of modern country music. Anyone not having heard of him, however, can be forgiven, for although he's an American and has played throughout the United States, his work mostly appears on the German-based Bear Family label. He's represented by live albums like 2004's Journey, four albums released by Capitol in the mid-70's, and one expensive box-set concept album, The Road to Torreon, for which he wrote songs to accompany a group of photographs from the American Southwest. Nashville City Blues was released in 2000, Touchstones in 2002. A live recording, Journey, arrived in 2004, followed by Got No Bread, No Milk, No Money, But We Sure Got A Lot of Love in 2006. ~ Bruce Eder, All Music Guide