As a recording and touring artist, James Taylor has touched people with his warm baritone voice and distinctive style of guitar-playing for more than 40 years, while setting a precedent to which countless young musicians have aspired. Over the course of his celebrated songwriting and performing career, Taylor has sold more than 100 million albums, earning gold, platinum and multi-platinum awards for classics ranging from Sweet Baby James in 1970 to October Road in 2002. In 2015 Taylor released Before This World, his first new studio album in thirteen years, which earned him his first ever #1 album on the Billboard Charts and a Grammy nomination for Best Pop Vocal Album. He has won multiple Grammy awards and has been inducted into both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the prestigious Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 2012, Taylor was awarded the distinguished Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government and the National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama in a White House ceremony. In November of 2015, Taylor was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Nation’s highest civilian honor. In December of 2016 Taylor received the Kennedy Center Honors, which are presented annually to individuals who have enriched American culture by distinguished achievement in the performing arts. In 2020, Taylor released his newest album, American Standard, his 19th studio album, which earned Taylor the 2021 Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album and gave him the honor of being the first artist to have a Billboard Top 10 album in each of the past six decades. See more at jamestaylor.com.

A portion of profits from the sale of James Taylor's strings go to Tuberville: In Tuberville, WE GROW FOOD AND WE DONATE IT. That might be the simplest of descriptions. Tuberville is also an experiment to help us understand more about communities, online and physical ones. Whether it is working with communities to grow food locally, planting potatoes with first graders and harvesting them as second graders or working with local farmers to help move​ their wholesome but visually imperfect produce. Tuberville’s “Grow Share Learn” program works with individual communities to bring together grocers, farmers and food shelves to address hunger and its effects locally. This importance is not just in the food itself, but in the points of contact we make with others when we work for a common goal. See more at www.tuberville.org.