Uploaded March 2017 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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This fully instrumental album was recorded over two days in January 2007. While a more sophisticated affair than his debut, Taylor does capture a similar urgency on Mr Z, Like A Fool and SpecialPlusExtra, and he seems reinvigorated throughout, ably supported by the Grant Greenesque guitar of Nigel Price. Boot Up recalls Taylor’s side project New Jersey Kings, French Quarter Strut the New Orleans groove of The Meters and elsewhere the influence of Charles Earland and Booker T & The MGs shines through.

Track Listings

1.- Picking Up Where We Left Off
2.- Boot Up
3.- Easy Time
4.- Mr. Z
5.- Never in My Wildest Dreams
6.- Acorn
7.- Show Down
8.- Dead Leg
9.- French Quartet Strut
10.- Like A Fool
11.- Mincemeat
12.- Specialplusextra

James Taylor (Hammond organ), Nigel Price (guitar), Andy McKinney (bass), Neil Robinson (drums)