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Maybe my biggest aim is to bring a sense of that old mystery of rock 'n' roll into the new age of today's instantaneous and fast world.

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James Taylor
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 12
Guitarist
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
James Vernon Taylor
Rock
Mystery
Bring
Instantaneous
Maybe
Roll
Age
Aim
Sense
Fast
Today
World
Biggest

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