His songs capture the growing insight of a hippy movement, to paraphrase Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane, spent the 1960s expanding your awareness and 1970s trying to get rid of.
But while Taylor entered the Waterfront Hall, with the attitude of an absent-minded professor bewilderment, as soon as he sat down to sing something in The Way She Moves - a song he auditioned for Paul McCartney and George taking notes Harrison in 1968 - the years immediately fell.
He immediately explained the reasons why it has not been consigned to purdah other composer of his generation: that voice and those melodies.
Although best known for ballads like you have a friend, he famously duetted with his legend mate composition and friend Carole King, with the help of his excellent band that released in the occasional nod to southern swamp rock style more effectively on national roads.
Here he even got to throw in some guitar hero shapes and subsequently traded licks with blues guitarist Michael Landau
But we were never too far from a defining song was either nostalgic lament Carolina, or towards the end of the night, the song encapsulates James Taylor like no other, Fire and Rain.
It is an apocalyptic lament that remains eternally young, and for which the prior hirsute artist, adorned with a peaked cap to hide baldness, soon seemed to recover their youth in all its intensity doomed.
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