This Is James Taylor's Favorite James Taylor Song

Back in the late 1960s, as American Songwriter notes, Taylor found himself in Spain while recording an album for the Beatles' Apple Records, and one night he met a woman and got stranded with her. Specifically, he'd gone to the island of Formentera, met Karen (whose name appears in the song), missed his ferry back

Back in the late 1960s, as American Songwriter notes, Taylor found himself in Spain while recording an album for the Beatles' Apple Records, and one night he met a woman and got stranded with her. Specifically, he'd gone to the island of Formentera, met Karen (whose name appears in the song), missed his ferry back home, had no money for a room, and spent the night at a cafe being homesick for his boyhood home of North Carolina. "I started getting homesick and I thought of this song and my home so far away and wrote 'Carolina In My Mind' as the sun was coming up," he said.

Decades later, Taylor would tell "Watch What Happens Live" host Andy Cohen, via CNN, that "Carolina In My Mind" is certainly the favorite song of his fans, if not his own favorite as well. "The song that I seem to perform most frequently is 'Carolina In My Mind.' I'm proud of that one, yeah," he said.

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