James Taylor and Jackson Browne have rescheduled their postponed 2020 joint sates, pushing the arena trek to the spring of 2021. As it stands now, the 27-city run will now kick off on May 14th, 2021 in New Orleans at the Smoothie King Center and wrap on July 10th, 2021 at Wantagh, New York's Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater.
During a recent chat with PBS, James Taylor spoke candidly on how he handles his music and career today: “Life for me is pretty realized. The blanks are filled in. I know who I love, I know who my family is, I know who my musical community is that I work with. I have friends who do this also, who basically say — 'Y'know, I don't think I'm that motivated by it anymore. I'm not that interested in having people's attention, or, y'know, having them focus on me.' But I seem to be endlessly interested in it and I like my audience, too. What I seem to feel more as time goes by is grateful.”
Jackson Browne, a member of both the Rock and Roll and Songwriters Hall of Fame, was asked about what, if any, price a songwriter pays by writing songs that go deeper than romance and relationships: “Y'know, nobody wants to be scolded, or lectured, or preached to. So, it's a challenge to write songs that engage people, that challenge them to look inside themselves and examine their own feelings. The question I'm asked again, and again, and again is whether or not writing songs that have a political aspect or that have a social conscience has damaged my career. Because it's sort of a given, it's an assumption that most people make that if you go around talking about these things that you make people uncomfortable, people don't wanna hear it — and that you can't really change anything, and those who try are somewhat self-deluded.”
RESCHEDULED: James Taylor & Jackson Browne 2021 tour dates (subject to change):
May 14 – New Orleans, LA – Smoothie King Center
May 15 – Houston, TX – Toyota Center
May 17 – Fort Worth, TX – Dickies Arena
May 20 – Salt Lake City, UT – Maverik Center
May 21 – Boise, ID – ExtraMile Arena
May 23 – Tacoma, WA – Tacoma Dome
May 24 – Portland, OR – Moda Center
May 26 – San Francisco, CA – Chase Center
May 28 – Anaheim, CA – Honda Center
May 29 – San Diego, CA – Pechanga Arena
June 9 – Chicago, IL – United Center
June 11 – Cuyahoga Falls, OH – Blossom Music Center
June 12 – Detroit, MI – DTE Energy Center
June 14 – Dayton, OH – WSU Nutter Center
June 15 – Charleston, WV – Charleston Coliseum
June 17 – Pittsburgh, PA – PPG Paints Arena
June 23 – Roanoke, VA – Berglund Center Coliseum
June 25 – Louisville, KY – KFC Yum! Center
June 26 – Memphis, TN – FedEx Forum
June 28 – Nashville, TN – Bridgestone Arena
June 29 – Atlanta, GA – Infinite Energy Center
July 1 – Hershey, PA – Giant Center
July 2 – Bethel, NY – Bethel Woods Center for the Arts
July 4 – Lenox, MA – Tanglewood (James Taylor only)
July 7 – Holmdel, NJ – PNC Bank Arts Center
July 9 – Camden, NJ – BB&T Pavilion
July 10 – Wantagh, NY – Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater
