Flag (album) - Definition

Flag is singer-songwriter James Taylor's tenth album. Released in 1979, it was perhaps not Taylor's strongest album, but it did provide a hit in his cover version of the Gerry Goffin/Carole King composition, "Up On the Roof".

Track listing

1. "Company Man" (J. Taylor) - 3:47
2. "Johnnie Comes Back" (J. Taylor) - 3:55
3. "Day Tripper" (J. Lennon, P. McCartney) - 4:25
4. "I Will Not Lie for You" (J. Taylor) - 3:16
5. "Brother Trucker" (J. Taylor) - 4:01
6. "Is That the Way You Look?" (J. Taylor) - 1:59
7. "B.S.U.R." (J. Taylor) - 3:23
8. "Rainy Day Man" (J. Taylor, Z. Wiesner) - 3:02
9. "Millworker" (J. Taylor) - 3:52
10. "Up on the Roof" (G. Goffin, C. King) - 4:21
11. "Chanson Française" (J. Taylor) - 2:05
12. "Sleep Come Free Me" (J. Taylor) - 4:43

Personnel

• James Taylor - guitar, vocals
• Peter Asher - timbales, vocals
• Dan Dugmore - pedal steel guitar
• Steve Forman - percussion
• Don Grolnick -keyboards
• Danny Kortchmar - guitar
• Russ Kunkel - drums, percussion
• David Lasley - vocals
• Jesse Levy - cello
• Arif Mardin - strings
• Arnold McCutler - backing vocals
• Graham Nash - vocals
• David Sanborn - saxophone
• Ralph Schuckett - keyboards
• Louise Schulmann - viola
• Carly Simon - vocals
• Leland Sklar - bass
• David Spinoza - guitar, strings
• Alex Taylor - backing vocals
• Waddy Wachtel - guitar