James Taylor Plans Year Off To Make New Album

Songwriter reflected in the performance at the inauguration of Obama

James Taylor performs during a rehearsal at the Capitol Building United States as Washington prepares for the second inauguration of President Barack Obama on January 20, 2013 in Washington, DC.




As his music career was about 50, the names of James Taylor an unusual inspiration for his songs: boredom. Starting today, we have provided a self-imposed break from the road and spend the rest of this year to write and record their first album of new material since 2002.

"It's funny to say, but it actually has to be boring to write," Taylor tells Rolling Stone, just hours after playing the inauguration of President Obama in Washington DC "So I'm looking forward to an empty time before me really focus on music again. This is what I'm meant to do. "

His rendition of "America the Beautiful" - along with a brief "surprise" anchor duties with NBC's Brian Williams following address Obama - will probably be the last public appearance of Taylor until complete tracking October Road, their latest album with Sony . (He is currently not signed to a label).

Boredom has eluded Taylor in the last decade; he has largely spent playing political events. He made 40 appearances in support of the reelection of President Obama, including a place at the Democratic National Convention in September in Charlotte, North Carolina.

"It's like an abbreviation of the whole country, somehow, being in North Carolina," he says about the state in which his parents, both civil rights activists, raised him. Just four months before Charlotte hosted the DNC, voters approved a state constitutional ban on marriage between same sexes. The swing state support that helped elect Obama in 2008 had fallen back in November, and no Republicans are now pushing to enact a law requiring voters to prove identification at the polls. "It's two very different places," says Taylor. "It's a leaning forward, progressive state, while a sort of little retrograde practice and the state of her heels-in-the excavation as well."

Taylor, who turns 65 in March, has contributed over $ 78,000 to various Democratic causes and political action committees over the past two years. "I really like about this President, I have a great deal of faith in him," says Taylor. "As a democracy we are constantly inventing our own future. Democracy is as strong as the participation of citizens in it, and somehow we need to try and make it accessible to more people."

Taylor says he has voted in every election, with one exception: In 1968, at the height of the Vietnam War, when the 20-year-old musician was in England recording their first album. Included "Carolina In My Mind".