when i say james taylor, you think what? >> i think friend. i think a special connection musically that i have not experienced with a lot of people in the same way. again, i describe this in the book in such a lovely, wonderful way. i put myself back in the moment of playing with him for the first time, and it is the same whenever we come together again after years. we don't see each other, we don't play, we might not speak, but here we are, hello, and that's what happened in the troubadour tour. tavis: yeah. i was there, i was there at the troubadour. >> and before that, really, at the troubadour club in 2007, which we also have out. concord has that out. tavis: i was there too. >> you were there? you were there for everything. tavis: i was there. not for everything, but for this part i was. >> you know what? i treasure it. i treasure that you were there, i treasured being part of that phenomenon. it is remarkable. i have had a remarkable life. i seem to be in such good places at the right time, and if you were to ask me to sum my life up in

>> brian wilson, smokey robinson, marvin gaye, paul simon, james taylor, for starters, don henley. tavis: have you figured out -- i always ask this question of every great songwriter what makes a great song for you. >> nothing is out of place. everything that happens in a song is natural, and you never go, why did he go to that gordcord? it always has a natural flow to it, so it is a certain combination about the lyrics and how it all flows together, and the other thing is it is visceral, and it gets you in a place of his mind, spirit, body, a cause big plays that happens when we listen to music -- a cosmic plays that happens when we listen to music. i have been playing some shows at the orchestra, and people in the audience -- i am not going to just indulge myself with gov. whatever i want, and then i start to play songs from this record, and i see some people who say, i like that song. people say, i like that song. give something happens to people, this romantic music, and that is what music does. it gets us to a place where language does not go. tavis: i have always loved string

she says her dad sang james taylor to help her fall asleep at night.ool more teachers made all the difference. >> we had a really great musical, theater program in high school. i was very blessed with two teachers that were very mr. holland style, they did everything that they could to give me countless opportunities to learn and grow and sing. >> then one day late last year, she was singing call me maybe on a canadian radio station when another canadian singer was driving along. next thing you know, he sent out a tweet heard around the world. justin bieber signed her to his label and had her sing in front of 300,000 of his fans. >> i don't really remember getting that nervous on stage. i always felt quite at home. this did it for me. i lost my voice for a second and just when i thought, oh no, i screwed it up. i looked a the audience and they were singing it. ♪ here is my number, so call me maybe ♪ >> okay. that's insane. >> a little song from the girl who said she just wanted to give everyone the gift of a summer dance. >> i feel like there's this da

there was a guy playing guitar like a james taylor. you could hardly hear the guy.alled and said, can you ask that guitar player who was playing like an angel to shut it. >> i feel for the neighbor. i just do, having been there myself. we have early, early hours. when people have their parties and go until 2:00, 3:00 in the morning, you can't sleep. be thoughtful. start your party earlier, you know? go to bed at 9:00 like decent people do. frank and i are in our jammies, bambino in between us and out. 9:00, baby. >> you know what? >> we'll live longer. frank is going to be 82 one month from today. he looks better than men half his age. >> he does look great. >> his night-night time. >> you guys go to bed at 9:00. >> you go to bed 8:30. >> i love going to bed. i'm so happy to crawl into bed at night. it's one of my favorite times. >> getting under the covers, going to bed. even when it's still a little light out. >> it wasn't last night. we get up early, all right? i love adele, but last summer there was somebody's birthday party in our neighborhood and it was adele

. >> james taylor. we have not spoken about asia fit great need for earn natural resources. there is speculation the u.s. maybe energy dependent. do you think that possibility will allow us to be more assertive and reemerge more actively in the world you are describing? >> it may allow us. we'll allow us to be less assertive. if we have a problem in iran fe decide to close down the straits of hormuz, that is a problem for us. a bigger problem for china or india. syria is a problem for us a bigger for lebanon, turkey. we will have more of these conversations s.c. america station a distaste becomes more and energy independence. very few countries have a positive trajectory. no one is prepared to send troops back to iraq if it breaks apart. . . would become more assertive. if i felt that more americans were likely to feel that they benefit from the u.s. or the lender of last resort or driving globalization. but what we are increasingly seeing is there is no longer an average american. we are seeing that large numbers of americans feel despite all the wealth being generated by t

the toughest inmate here might just be james "t-bone" taylor.dering two police officers in 1981. >> i had a cop killing case. it made me feel like i was big man on campus, because i was getting respect. but it was only out of fear. it wasn't because they respected me because of who i was. >> he was involved in gang related activity on both sides of the wall since he was a teenager in east st. louis. he earned his nickname t-bone while serving time at another prison. >> because the incident happened at ft. madison in the '70s, it was hard to get a knife. so i made a knife out of bone, out of a t-bone steak. we used to get steak back in the day.ç i sharpened it down and i was going to stab the guy with it. before i could stab the guy with it, they had busted me with it. they saw it in my hand. they took it. the name stuck. the guys in the penitentiary called me t-bone. >> but it was taylor's desire to rise to the top of the gang hierarchy on the outside what led him to conduct the cold-blooded murders. for which he will spend the rest of his life

. >> but first on this day in history in 1971 "you've got a friend" by james taylor was the number one question of the day, dorothy hamill who brian thinks is really cute. the winner is douglas burrows. >> president obama doubling down on you didn't build this comments. he reaffirmed how he feels about small business. >> the approach that he's talking about is not going to help small businesses. and it's not going to create more markets for large businesses. he is wrong! we did not build this country on our own. we built it together and if mr. romney doesn't understand that, then he doesn't understand what it takes to grow this economy in the 21st century. for everybody! >> and even those comments are not sitting well with small business owners. joining us right now is debbie smith, she owns a promotional products company and was a long time democrat until recently. debbie, thanks for joining us today from iowa. >> sure. good morning. thank you for having me. >> you bet. so you voted for barack obama. you've been a long time democrat, and you were optimistic that with all that hope and

taylor andy in the griffith show that air from 1960--in 1960. coming up we will have weather and traffic conditions that a show you the traffic conditions on the jamesght at this hour not a problem here or just about any other place. i can tell a potential hot spots and al mead involving a car crash and will try to give you in a live update in just a minute. >> we are falling developing news out of alameda a major road is closed after a car carrying six teenagers crashed into a tree. it happened at 2:00 a.m. on highland drive. the road is that expected to reopen until about 10:00 a.m.. all six teenagers in the crash were taken to the hospital it is unclear the extent of their injuries. fire crews had to use the jaws of life to remove the six people inside. we have a crew headed to the scene and will bring more detailed as input--as they develop. now we will hear with erica to see what we expect of the weather will it be warm or downright hot? >> erica: it could be hot. we're talking upper 80s. along the coastal said the temperature to be a little more mouth as of right now we do have some cloud cover over downtown san francisco and portions of the c