146-526: Chapel Hill is a town in Orange and Durham County, North Carolina , United States. Its population was 61,960 in the 2020 census , making Chapel Hill the 17th-most populous municipality in the state. Chapel Hill and Durham make up the Durham-Chapel Hill, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had an estimated population of 608,879 in 2023. When it's combined with Raleigh , the state capital, they make up
292-572: A bed-and-breakfast in Aquinnah, Massachusetts , with his wife since 1989. In 1951, Taylor and his family moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina , when Isaac took a job as an assistant professor of medicine at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine . They built a house in the Morgan Creek area off the present Morgan Creek Road, which was sparsely populated. Taylor later said, "Chapel Hill,
438-460: A methadone maintenance program to cure him of his drug addiction . Over the course of four months starting in September 1983, spurred on in part by the deaths of his friends John Belushi and Dennis Wilson and in part by the desire to be a better father to his children Sally and Ben, he discontinued methadone and overcame his heroin habit. Taylor had thoughts of retiring by the time he played
584-695: A public primary school in Chapel Hill. Isaac's career prospered, but he was frequently away from home on military service at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland or as part of Operation Deep Freeze in Antarctica in 1955 and 1956. Isaac Taylor later rose to become dean of the UNC School of Medicine from 1964 to 1971. Beginning in 1953, the Taylors spent summers on Martha's Vineyard . Taylor took cello lessons as
730-587: A resident physician at the hospital and came from a wealthy Southern family. Taylor is of English and Scottish descent from the Taylor family of the Montrose area, with the former being rooted in Massachusetts Bay Colony ; his ancestors include Edmund Rice , an English colonist who co-founded Sudbury, Massachusetts . His mother, Gertrude (née Woodard; 1921–2015), studied singing with Marie Sundelius at
876-574: A "natural sense of phrasing, every syllable beautifully in time. I knew James had that thing ." Taylor wrote his first song on guitar at 14, and he continued to learn the instrument effortlessly. By the summer of 1963, he and Kortchmar were playing coffeehouses around the Vineyard, billed as "Jamie & Kootch". In 1961, Taylor went to Milton Academy , a preparatory boarding school in Massachusetts. He faltered during his junior year, feeling uneasy in
1022-658: A British program, returned to New York and was hospitalized there, and then finally committed himself to the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts , which emphasized cultural and historical factors in trying to treat difficult psychiatric disorders. Meanwhile, Apple released his debut album, James Taylor , in December 1968 in the UK and February 1969 in the US. Critical reception
1168-579: A Friend"; King also won Song of the Year for the same song in that ceremony. The album went on to sell 2.5 million copies in the United States. November 1972 heralded the release of Taylor's fourth album, One Man Dog . A concept album primarily recorded in his home recording studio, it featured a cameo by Linda Ronstadt along with Carole King, Carly Simon, and John McLaughlin . The album consisted of eighteen short pieces of music put together. Reception
1314-498: A Grammy nomination for Album of the Year in 1978. Peter Herbst of Rolling Stone was particularly favorable to the album, of which he wrote in its August 11, 1977, issue, " JT is the least stiff and by far the most various album Taylor has done. That's not meant to criticize Taylor's earlier efforts. ... But it's nice to hear him sounding so healthy." JT reached No. 4 on the Billboard charts and sold more than 3 million copies in
1460-466: A March 1, 1971, Time magazine cover story of him as "the face of new rock". It compared his strong-but-brooding persona to that of Wuthering Heights ' Heathcliff and to The Sorrows of Young Werther , and said, "Taylor's use of elemental imagery—darkness and sunlight, references to roads traveled and untraveled, to fears spoken and left unsaid—reaches a level both of intimacy and controlled emotion rarely achieved in purely pop music." One of
1606-525: A Taylor performance at Radio City Music Hall turned into a large-scale wedding party, and the Simon-Taylor marriage would find much public attention over the following years. They had two children, Sarah Maria "Sally" Taylor , born January 7, 1974, and Benjamin Simon "Ben" Taylor, born January 22, 1977. During their marriage, the couple would guest on each other's albums and have two hit singles as duet partners:
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#17328483746251752-778: A child in North Carolina , before learning the guitar in 1960. His guitar style evolved, influenced by hymns , carols , and the music of Woody Guthrie , and his technique derived from his bass clef -oriented cello training and from experimenting on his sister Kate's keyboards: "My style was a finger-picking style that was meant to be like a piano, as if my thumb were my left hand, and my first, second, and third fingers were my right hand." Spending summer holidays with his family on Martha's Vineyard , he met Danny Kortchmar , an aspiring teenage guitarist from Larchmont, New York . The two began listening to and playing blues and folk music together, and Kortchmar felt that Taylor's singing had
1898-462: A cover of Inez & Charlie Foxx's " Mockingbird " and a version of The Everly Brothers' " Devoted to You ". Taylor spent most of 1973 enjoying his new life as a married man and did not return to the recording studio until January 1974, when sessions for his fifth album began. Walking Man was released in June and featured appearances of Paul and Linda McCartney and guitarist David Spinozza . The album
2044-527: A drink." He hung out in Washington Square Park , playing guitar to ward off depression and then passing out, letting runaways and criminals stay at his apartment. Finally out of money and abandoned by his manager, he made a desperate call one night to his father. Isaac Taylor flew to New York and staged a rescue, renting a car and driving all night back to North Carolina with James and his possessions. Taylor spent six months getting treatment and making
2190-599: A duet with JD Souther , " Her Town Too ", which reached No. 5 on the Adult Contemporary chart and No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100. Simon announced her separation from Taylor in September 1981 saying, "Our needs are different; it seem[s] impossible to stay together" and their divorce finalized in 1983. Their breakup was highly publicized. At the time, Taylor was living on West End Avenue in Manhattan and on
2336-846: A duet with Mark Knopfler , " Sailing to Philadelphia ", which also appeared on Knopfler's album by the same name. Also in 2002, Taylor teamed with bluegrass musician Alison Krauss in singing " The Boxer " at the Kennedy Center Honors Tribute to Paul Simon . They later recorded the Louvin Brothers duet, "How's the World Treating You?" In 2004, after he chose not to renew his record contract with Columbia/Sony, he released James Taylor: A Christmas Album with distribution through Hallmark Cards . Always visibly active in environmental and liberal causes, in October 2004, Taylor joined
2482-480: A female householder with no husband present, and 43.00% were non-families. 28.10% of all households were made up of individuals, and 6.10% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.36 and the average family size was 2.95. In the county, the age distribution was as follows: 20.30% under the age of 18, 21.00% from 18 to 24, 29.90% from 25 to 44, 20.40% from 45 to 64, and 8.40% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age
2628-467: A large increase in ridership, taking many cars off the roads. Several hybrid and articulated buses have been added recently. All buses carry GPS transmitters to report their location in real-time to a tracking web site. Buses can transport bicycles and have wheelchair lifts. In 1993, the town celebrated its bicentennial and founded the Chapel Hill Museum . This cultural community resource "exhibiting
2774-462: A late 1966 hasty recording session, the group cut a single, Taylor's " Night Owl ", backed with his "Brighten Your Night with My Day". Released on Rainy Day Records, distributed by Jubilee Records , it received some radio airplay in the Northeast, but only charted at No. 102 nationally. Other songs had been recorded during the same session, but Jubilee declined to go forward with an album. After
2920-517: A low campus wall at the edge of campus, christened "Dan Moore's Wall" by The Daily Tar Heel , referring to Governor Dan K. Moore . A group of UNC students, along with Aptheker and Williamson, filed a lawsuit in U.S. federal court based on the right to free speech. On February 20, 1968, the Speaker Ban Law was ruled unconstitutional. In 1968, a year after its public schools became fully integrated, Chapel Hill elected Howard Lee as mayor. This
3066-440: A major part of the economy and town influence. Local artists have created many murals in the town. The Occaneechi Indians lived in the area of what is now Hillsborough , north of Chapel Hill, prior to European settlement. The area was the home place of early settler William Barbee of Middlesex County, Virginia , whose 1753 grant of 585 acres on the north and south side of "Lick Branch" from John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville
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#17328483746253212-531: A member of the governor's council and one of Granville's land agents), and renamed Childsburgh (in honor of Thomas Child, the attorney general for North Carolina from 1751 to 1760 and another one of Granville's land agents) in 1759. In 1766, it was named Hillsborough, after Wills Hill , then the Earl of Hillsborough , the British secretary of state for the colonies, and a relative of royal Governor William Tryon . Located in
3358-575: A new backing band. Taylor recorded what would become his first album from July to October 1968, at Trident Studios , at the same time the Beatles were recording The White Album . McCartney and an uncredited George Harrison guested on "Carolina in My Mind", whose lyric "holy host of others standing around me" referred to the Beatles, and the title phrase of Taylor's "Something in the Way She Moves" provided
3504-592: A period during Reconstruction , from December 1, 1870, to September 6, 1875. In March 1865, Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston wintered just outside Hillsborough at the Dickson home. This house now serves as the Hillsborough Welcome Center in downtown (the house was moved from its original site in the early 1980s due to commercial development). The main portion of the Confederate Army of Tennessee
3650-593: A psychiatric hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts , where he was treated with chlorpromazine , and where the organized days began to give him a sense of time and structure. As the Vietnam War escalated, Taylor received a psychological rejection from the Selective Service System , when he appeared before them, uncommunicative, with two white-suited McLean assistants. Taylor earned a high school diploma in 1966 from
3796-426: A receptive audience. It featured a number of quiet instrumental accompaniments and passages. Overall, it found Taylor in a more peaceful frame of mind; rather than facing a crisis now, Taylor said in an interview that "I thought I'd passed the midpoint of my life when I was 17." The album appeared in two versions, a single-disc version and a " limited edition " two-disc version which contained three extra songs including
3942-500: A semester before he moved to New York City to form a band. They recruited Joel O'Brien, formerly of Kortchmar's old band King Bees to play drums, and Taylor's childhood friend Zachary Wiesner (son of academic Jerome Wiesner ) to play bass. After Taylor rejected the notion of naming the group after him, they called themselves the Flying Machine. They played songs that Taylor had written at and about McLean, such as " Knocking 'Round
4088-454: A series of poorly chosen appearances outside New York, culminating with a three-week stay at a failing nightspot in Freeport, Bahamas for which they were never paid, the Flying Machine broke up. (A UK band with the same name emerged in 1969 with the hit song " Smile a Little Smile for Me ". The Flying Machine was briefly referenced in Taylor's song " Fire and Rain ", and following his success as
4234-687: A series of six shows at the Troubadour. The appearances marked the 50th anniversary of the venue, where Taylor, King and many others, such as Tom Waits , Neil Diamond , and Elton John , performed early in their music careers. Proceeds from the concert went to benefit the Natural Resources Defense Council, MusiCares, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, and the Los Angeles Regional Foodbank (a member of America's Second Harvest ,
4380-582: A signer of the Declaration of Independence , was buried in the Presbyterian Church cemetery in October 1790. His remains were later reinterred at Guilford Courthouse Military Battlefield. His original gravestone remains in the town cemetery. Several large plantations were located in this county in the colonial and antebellum periods, including Green Hill , Ayr Mount , Moorefields , The Elms , Sans Souci , Riverland , Alexander Hogan Plantation , and
4526-607: A single in Raleigh that featured James's song "Cha Cha Blues" on the B-side . Having lost touch with his former school friends in North Carolina, Taylor returned to Milton for his senior year, where he started applying to colleges to complete his education. But he felt part of a "life that [he was] unable to lead", and he became depressed ; he slept 20 hours each day, and his grades collapsed. In late 1965 he committed himself to McLean ,
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4672-528: A solo artist, the band's recordings were later released in 1971 as James Taylor and the Original Flying Machine .) Taylor would later say of this New York period, "I learned a lot about music and too much about drugs." Indeed, his drug use had developed into full-blown heroin addiction during the final Flying Machine period: "I just fell into it, since it was as easy to get high in the Village as get
4818-465: A song about his daughter Sally, "Sarah Maria". Gorilla was followed in 1976 by In the Pocket , Taylor's last studio album to be released under Warner Bros. Records . The album found him with many colleagues and friends, including Art Garfunkel , David Crosby , Bonnie Raitt , and Stevie Wonder (who co-wrote a song with Taylor and contributed a harmonica solo). A melodic album, it was highlighted with
4964-490: A tentative recovery; he also required a throat operation to fix vocal cords damaged from singing too harshly. Taylor decided to try being a solo act with a change of scenery. In late 1967, funded by a small family inheritance, he moved to London, living in various areas: Notting Hill , Belgravia , and Chelsea . After recording some demos in Soho , his friend Kortchmar gave him his next big break. Kortchmar used his association with
5110-506: A tour entitled James Taylor and His Band of Legends. An additional album, called Other Covers , came out in April 2009, containing songs that were recorded during the same sessions as the original Covers but had not been put out to the full public yet. During October 19–21, 2008, Taylor performed a series of free concerts in five North Carolina cities in support of Barack Obama 's presidential bid. On Sunday, January 18, 2009, he performed at
5256-563: A traditional-style mall with a mix of national and local retailers is located at University Place . Hailed as one of America's Foodiest Small Towns by Bon Appétit , Chapel Hill is rapidly becoming a hot spot for pop American cuisine. Among the restaurants noted nationally are Mama Dip's ( Food Network 's $ 40 A Day With Rachael Ray ), Sunrise Biscuit Kitchen ( The Splendid Table ), caffè Driade (Food Network's $ 40 A Day With Rachael Ray ), Lantern Restaurant ( Food & Wine , Southern Living , etc.), and Vimala's Curryblossom Cafe. In
5402-424: A while", he recalled in 1995: I sort of hit a low spot. I was asked to go down to Rio de Janeiro to play in this festival down there. We put the band together and went down and it was just an amazing response. I played to 300,000 people. They not only knew my music, they knew things about it and were interested in aspects of it that to that point had only interested me. To have that kind of validation right about then
5548-425: Is North Carolina's best-educated municipality, proportionately, with 77% of adult residents (25 and older) holding an associate degree or higher, and 73% of adults possessing a baccalaureate degree or higher. Chapel Hill uses a council–manager form of government. The community elects a mayor and eight council members. Mayors serve two-year terms, and council members serve staggered four-year terms, all elected by
5694-470: Is a member of the regional Triangle J Council of Governments . Orange County has gained a reputation as one of the most liberal counties in North Carolina. The county consistently delivers one of the largest Democratic majorities in the state in presidential, state, and local elections. This trend predates the recent swing toward the Democrats in counties dominated by college towns. The last Republican to win
5840-492: Is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. A six-time Grammy Award winner, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000. Taylor achieved his breakthrough in 1970 with the No. 3 single " Fire and Rain " and had his first No. 1 hit in 1971 with his recording of " You've Got a Friend ", written by Carole King in the same year. His 1976 Greatest Hits album
5986-471: Is bounded on the west by the town of Carrboro and on the northeast by the city of Durham. However, most of Chapel Hill's borders are adjacent to unincorporated portions of Orange and Durham Counties rather than shared with another municipality. According to the United States Census Bureau , the town has a total area of 21.75 square miles (56.3 km), of which 21.60 square miles (55.9 km)
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6132-549: Is home to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , the flagship institution of the University of North Carolina System and the oldest state-supported university in the United States . Orange County was formed in 1752 from parts of Bladen , Granville , and Johnston counties. While no surviving records exist regarding the namesake of the county, it may have been named for the infant William V of Orange , whose mother Anne , daughter of King George II of Great Britain ,
6278-551: Is land and 0.15 square miles (0.39 km) (0.69%) is water. As of the 2020 census , there were 61,960 people, 20,369 households, and 10,552 families residing in the town. At the 2010 census , there were 57,233 people in 20,564 households residing in the town. The population density was 2,687 people per square mile (1,037 people/km). The racial composition of the town was 72.8% White, 9.7% African American, 0.3% Native American, 11.9% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 2.7% some other race, and 2.7% of two or more races. About 6.4% of
6424-750: Is named after the town. The University of North Carolina has been very successful at college basketball and women's soccer , and a passion for these sports has been a distinctive feature of the town's culture, fueled by the Tobacco Road rivalry among North Carolina's four ACC teams: the North Carolina Tar Heels , the Duke Blue Devils , the NC State Wolfpack , and the Wake Forest Demon Deacons . The two largest sports venues in
6570-618: Is the flagship of the University of North Carolina System . The state's main youth orchestra, Piedmont Youth Orchestra , is based in Chapel Hill. Also located in the town is the Chapel Hill Public Library, directed by Atlas Logan. Though Chapel Hill is a principal town of a large metropolitan area, it retains a relatively small-town feel. Combined with its close neighbor, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro area has roughly 85,000 residents. Many large murals can be seen painted on
6716-461: Is water. The county is drained, in part, by the Eno River . The city of Chapel Hill , is in the southeastern part of Orange County, as is Carrboro . Hillsborough is in the central part of the county and is the county seat. As of the 2020 census , there were 148,696 people, 55,259 households, and 32,657 families residing in the county. At the 2010 census , there were 133,801 people living in
6862-745: The 82nd Academy Awards . In March 2010, he commenced the Troubadour Reunion Tour with Carole King and members of his original band, including Russ Kunkel , Leland Sklar , and Danny Kortchmar . They played shows in Australia, New Zealand, Japan and North America with the final night being at the Honda Center, in Anaheim, California. The tour was a major commercial success and in some locations found Taylor playing arenas instead of his usual theaters or amphitheaters. Ticket sales amounted to over 700,000 and
7008-507: The Apollo 11 astronauts had landed on the moon. Shortly thereafter, Taylor broke both hands and both feet in a motorcycle accident on Martha's Vineyard and was forced to stop playing for several months. However, while recovering, he continued to write songs and in October 1969 signed a new deal with Warner Bros. Records . Once he had recovered, Taylor moved to California, keeping Asher as his manager and record producer. In December 1969, he held
7154-587: The Billboard Adult Contemporary chart, the track also reached the top, and the follow-up single, the feelgood "Mexico", featuring a guest appearance by Crosby & Nash , also reached the Top 5 of that list. A well-received album, Gorilla showcased Taylor's electric, lighter side that was evident on Walking Man . However, it was arguably a more consistent and fresher-sounding Taylor, with songs such as "Mexico", "Wandering" and "Angry Blues". It also featured
7300-569: The Billboard Hot 100 in late July. The follow-up single, " Long Ago and Far Away ", also made the Top 40 and reached No. 4 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart. The album itself reached No. 2 on the album charts, which would be Taylor's highest position ever until the release of his 2015 album, Before This World , which went to No. 1 superseding Taylor Swift . In early 1972, Taylor won his first Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male , for "You've Got
7446-578: The Buddy Holly song " Everyday ", released as a single reached No. 61. On the album track "Only One", the backing vocals were performed by an all-star duo of Joni Mitchell and Don Henley. Taylor's next albums were partially successful; in 1988, he released Never Die Young , highlighted with the charting title track, and in 1991, the platinum New Moon Shine provided Taylor some popular songs with "Copperline" and "(I've Got to) Stop Thinkin' About That", both hit singles on Adult Contemporary radio. In
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#17328483746257592-494: The New England Conservatory of Music and was an aspiring opera singer before she married Isaac in 1946. Taylor is the younger brother of musician Alex Taylor (1947–1993) and the older brother of musicians Kate Taylor (born 1949) and Livingston Taylor (born 1950). His youngest sibling, a brother named Hugh (born 1952), was also a musician; Hugh eventually left the music industry and has operated The Outermost Inn,
7738-591: The Patterson Plantation . Chartered by the North Carolina General Assembly on December 11, 1789, the University of North Carolina's cornerstone was laid on October 12, 1793, near the ruins of a chapel, chosen for its central location within the state. Beginning instruction of undergraduates in 1795, UNC is the oldest public university in the United States and the only one to award degrees in
7884-690: The Piedmont region, Hillsborough was the site of a colonial court, and the scene of some pre- Revolutionary War tensions. In the late 1760s, conflicts between Piedmont farmers and county officers welled up in the Regulator movement , or as it was also known, the War of the Regulation , which had its epicenter in Hillsborough. Several thousand people from North Carolina, mainly from Orange, Anson , and Granville counties in
8030-609: The Rock in Rio festival in Rio de Janeiro in January 1985. He was encouraged by the nascent democracy in Brazil at the time, buoyed by the positive reception he got from the large crowd and other musicians, and musically energized by the sounds and nature of Brazilian music . "I had ... sort of bottomed-out in a drug habit, my marriage with Carly had dissolved, and I had basically been depressed and lost for
8176-447: The U.S. Census Bureau , over the three-year period of 2005 through 2007, the median income for a household in the town was $ 51,690, and for a family was $ 91,049. Males had a median income of $ 50,258 versus $ 32,917 for females. The per capita income for the town was $ 35,796. About 8.6% of families and 19.8% of the population were below the poverty line , including 8.6% of those under age 18 and 5.6% of those age 65 or over. Chapel Hill
8322-463: The Vote for Change tour playing a series of concerts in American swing states . These concerts were organized by MoveOn.org with the goal of mobilizing people to vote for John Kerry and against George W. Bush in that year's presidential campaign. Taylor's appearances were joint performances with the Dixie Chicks . Taylor performed " The Star-Spangled Banner " at Game 2 of the World Series in Boston on October 24, 2004, on October 25, 2007, both
8468-465: The We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial , singing "Shower the People" with John Legend and Jennifer Nettles of Sugarland . On May 29, 2009, Taylor performed on the final episode of the original 17-year run of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno . On September 8, 2009, Taylor made an appearance at the 24th-season premiere block party of The Oprah Winfrey Show on Chicago's Michigan Avenue . Taylor appeared briefly in
8614-560: The poverty line , including 9.00% of those under age 18 and 7.40% of those age 65 or over. FY 2008-09 Orange County had the second highest property tax rate in NC at 0.998 per $ 100 of valuation. For FY 2009-10 after the 2009 Orange County revaluation, the rate is now ninth highest in the state at 0.858 per $ 100 of valuation. Orange County is governed by a seven-member board of commissioners. The commissioners are elected to four-year terms by district and at-large in partisan elections, which are held in November of even-numbered years. Orange County
8760-411: The 18th century. The Reverend Robert and Margaret Anna Burwell founded and ran a school for girls called the Burwell School from 1837 to 1857 in their home on Churton Street in Hillsborough. Families of planters paid to have their daughters educated here. When the Civil War began, Hillsborough was reluctant to support secession. However, many citizens went off to fight for the Confederacy . During
8906-399: The 1960s, the UNC campus was the location of significant political protest. Prior to passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 , protests about local racial segregation began quietly in Franklin Street restaurants; activists increased in influence and led mass demonstrations and civil disturbance. Always suspicious of communist influence in the civil rights movement, the legislature passed
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#17328483746259052-733: The 1963 Speaker Ban Law , prohibiting speeches by communists on state campuses in North Carolina. University Chancellor William Brantley Aycock and University President William Friday criticized the law, but it was not reviewed by the North Carolina General Assembly until 1965. Small amendments to allow "infrequent" visits failed to placate the student body, especially when the university's board of trustees overruled new Chancellor Paul Frederick Sharp's decision to allow speaking invitations to Marxist speaker Herbert Aptheker and civil liberties activist Frank Wilkinson . The two speakers came to Chapel Hill anyway. Wilkinson spoke off campus, and more than 1,500 students watched Aptheker's speech across
9198-411: The 2009 movie Funny People , where he played " Carolina in My Mind " for a MySpace corporate event as the opening act for the main character. On January 1, 2010, Taylor sang the American national anthem at the NHL Winter Classic at Fenway Park , while Daniel Powter sang the Canadian national anthem . On March 7, 2010, Taylor sang the Beatles ' " In My Life " in tribute to deceased artists at
9344-402: The 88th-best high school in the nation, and the highest-ranked standard public high school in North Carolina. The small portion of Chapel Hill located in Durham County is part of Durham Public Schools . There are several private K-12 schools in Chapel Hill, including Emerson Waldorf School . Founded in 1789, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public research university and
9490-427: The Ayr Mountaineers, Hollow Rock String band, Watchhouse (formerly known as Mandolin Orange) , Steep Canyon Rangers , Mipso , the Tug Creek Ramblers, Two Dollar Pistols , the Fuzzy Mountain String band, Big Fat Gap and the Red Clay Ramblers . Chapel Hill was also the founding home of now Durham-based Merge Records . Bruce Springsteen has made a point to visit the town on four occasions. His most recent appearance
9636-415: The BBC in 2010: "The guy had sort of pinned me to the wall and was glistening with maniacal sweat and talking some freak speak about what he was going to do and his stuff with how John was interested, and he was going to get in touch with John Lennon. And it was surreal to actually have contact with the guy 24 hours before he shot John." The next night, Taylor, who lived in a building next-door to Lennon, heard
9782-563: The Broadway musical based on Studs Terkel 's non-fiction book Working , which Terkel himself hosted. Taylor himself appeared in that production as a trucker; he performed "Brother Trucker" in character.) Taylor also appeared on the No Nukes concert in Madison Square Garden, where he made a memorable live performance of "Mockingbird" with his wife Carly. The concert appeared on both the No Nukes album and film . On December 7, 1980, Taylor had an encounter with Mark David Chapman who would murder John Lennon just one day later. Taylor told
9928-614: The Canadian band Chilliwack at a Vancouver benefit concert that funded Greenpeace 's protests of 1971 nuclear weapons tests by the US Atomic Energy Commission at Amchitka , Alaska ; this performance was released in album format in 2009 as Amchitka, The 1970 Concert That Launched Greenpeace . In January 1971, sessions for Taylor's next album began. He appeared on The Johnny Cash Show , singing "Sweet Baby James", "Fire and Rain", and "Country Road", on February 17, 1971. His career success at this point and appeal to female fans of various ages piqued tremendous interest in him, prompting
10074-491: The Canadian charts. The success of the album propelled the release of two further singles; the up-tempo pop " Your Smiling Face ", an enduring live favorite, reached the American Top 20; however, " Honey Don't Leave L.A. ", which Danny Kortchmar wrote and composed for Taylor, did not enjoy much success, reaching only No. 61. Back in the forefront of popular music, Taylor guested with Paul Simon on Art Garfunkel's recording of Sam Cooke 's " Wonderful World ", which reached
10220-440: The Cross , Gimghoul Neighborhood Historic District , Alexander Hogan Plantation , Old Chapel Hill Cemetery , Old East, University of North Carolina , Playmakers Theatre , Rocky Ridge Farm Historic District , and West Chapel Hill Historic District are listed on the National Register of Historic Places . Chapel Hill is located in the southeast corner of Orange County , with a small part extending east into Durham County . It
10366-510: The Dixie Chicks. In early 2006, MusiCares honored Taylor with performances of his songs by an array of notable musicians. Before a performance by the Dixie Chicks, lead singer Natalie Maines acknowledged that he had always been one of their musical heroes and had, for them, lived up to their once-imagined reputation of him. They performed his song, "Shower the People", with a surprise appearance by Arnold McCuller , who has sung backing vocals on Taylor's live tours and albums for many years. In
10512-539: The King Bees (who once opened for Peter and Gordon ), to connect Taylor to Peter Asher . Asher was A&R head for the Beatles ' newly formed label Apple Records . Taylor gave a demo tape of songs, including " Something in the Way She Moves ", to Asher, who then played the demo for Beatles Paul McCartney and George Harrison . McCartney remembers his first impression: "I just heard his voice and his guitar and I thought he
10658-487: The One Man Band Tour, featuring some of Taylor's most beloved songs and anecdotes about their creative origins—accompanied solely by the "one man band" of his longtime pianist/keyboardist, Larry Goldings . The digital discrete 5.1 surround sound mix of One Man Band won a TEC Award for best surround sound recording in 2008. On November 28–30, 2007, Taylor accompanied by his original band and Carole King, headlined
10804-458: The Piedmont, the outlying hills, were tranquil, rural, beautiful, but quiet. Thinking of the red soil, caused by local copper mining [Taylor's later song, "Copperline" was a nostalgic salute to that area where Taylor grew up], plus the seasons, the way things smelled down there, I feel as though my experience of coming of age there was more a matter of landscape and climate than people." James attended
10950-616: The Raleigh-Durham media market for both television and radio. The flagship station for PBS North Carolina , WUNC-TV, is licensed to Chapel Hill. There are several radio stations located in the county. Stations licensed to Chapel Hill WUNC , WXYC , WCHL , and WLLQ . WQOK and WCOM-LP are licensed to Carrboro. UNC Chapel Hill's student-run newspaper, The Daily Tar Heel, offers extensive coverage of news in Orange County. James Taylor James Vernon Taylor (born March 12, 1948)
11096-544: The Top 20 in the U.S. and topped the AC charts in early 1978. After briefly working on Broadway , he took a one-year break, reappearing in the summer of 1979, with the cover-studded Platinum album titled Flag , featuring a Top 30 version of Gerry Goffin 's and Carole King's " Up on the Roof ". (Two selections from Flag , " Millworker " and "Brother Trucker" were featured on the PBS production of
11242-523: The UK and only reached No. 118 on the U.S. charts. In July 1969, Taylor headlined a six-night stand at the Troubadour in Los Angeles. On July 20, he performed at the Newport Folk Festival as the last act and was cheered by thousands of fans who stayed in the rain to hear him. His set at Newport was cut short after 15 minutes, when festival co-founder George Wein announced on stage that
11388-525: The US in 2015 with Before This World . Taylor is also known for his covers, such as " How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You) " and " Handy Man ", as well as originals such as " Sweet Baby James ". He played the leading role in Monte Hellman 's 1971 film Two-Lane Blacktop . James Vernon Taylor was born at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston on March 12, 1948. His father, Isaac M. Taylor , worked as
11534-462: The United States alone. The album's Triple Platinum status ties it with Sweet Baby James as Taylor's all-time biggest-selling studio album. It was propelled by Jimmy Jones 's and Otis Blackwell 's " Handy Man ", which hit No. 1 on Billboard' s Adult Contemporary chart and reached No. 4 on the Hot 100, earning Taylor another Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance . The song also topped
11680-521: The Year . It went on to be listed at No. 103 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time in 2003, with "Fire and Rain" listed as No. 227 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time in 2004. During the time that Sweet Baby James was released, Taylor appeared with Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys in a Monte Hellman film, Two-Lane Blacktop . In October 1970, he performed with his then partner Joni Mitchell , Phil Ochs , and
11826-645: The Zoo ", "Don't Talk Now", and "The Blues Is Just a Bad Dream". In some other songs, Taylor romanticized his life, but he was plagued by self-doubt. By summer 1966, they were performing regularly at the high-visibility Night Owl Cafe in Greenwich Village , alongside acts such as the Turtles and Lothar and the Hand People . Taylor associated with a motley group of people and began using heroin, to Kortchmar's dismay. In
11972-495: The album and the single reached No. 3 on the Billboard charts, with Sweet Baby James selling more than 1.5 million copies in its first year and eventually more than 3 million in the United States alone. Sweet Baby James was received at its time as a folk-rock masterpiece, an album that effectively showcased Taylor's talents to the mainstream public, marking a direction he would take in following years. It earned several Grammy Award nominations including one for Album of
12118-526: The album that comprised most of his best work between 1970 and 1976. With time, it became his best-selling album ever. It was certified 11× Platinum in the US, earned a Diamond certification by the RIAA , and eventually sold close to 20 million copies worldwide. In 1977 Taylor signed with Columbia Records . Between March and April, he quickly recorded his first album for the label. JT , released that June, gave Taylor his best reviews since Sweet Baby James , earning
12264-713: The anthem and "America" for the game on October 24, 2013, and Game 1 on October 23, 2018. He also performed at Game 1 of the 2008 NBA Finals in Boston on June 5, 2008, and at the NHL's Winter Classic game between the Philadelphia Flyers and Boston Bruins . In December 2004, he appeared as himself in an episode of The West Wing entitled " A Change Is Gonna Come ". He sang Sam Cooke 's classic " A Change Is Gonna Come " at an event honoring an artist played by Taylor's wife Caroline. Later on, he appeared on CMT 's Crossroads alongside
12410-459: The assassination occur. Taylor commented: "I heard him shoot—five, just as quick as you could pull the trigger, about five explosions." In March 1981, Taylor released the album Dad Loves His Work whose themes concerned his relationship with his father, the course his ancestors had taken, and the effect that he and Simon had on each other. The album was another Platinum success, reaching No. 10 and providing Taylor's final real hit single in
12556-455: The blue represents the town and the University of North Carolina (whose colors are Carolina blue and white); the green represents "environmental awareness"; and the "townscape" in the inverted chevron represents "a sense of home, friends, and community." The town's seal, has, since the 1930s, depicted Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom and protector of cities. Having gone through several revisions,
12702-451: The buildings. Most of these murals were painted by UNC alumnus Michael Brown. Also, for more than 30 years, Chapel Hill has sponsored the annual street fair , Festifall, in October. The fair offer booths to artists, craftsmakers, nonprofits, and food vendors. Performance space is also available for musicians, martial artists , and other groups. The fair is attended by tens of thousands each year. The Morehead Planetarium and Science Center
12848-619: The character and characters of Chapel Hill, North Carolina" includes among its permanent exhibits Alexander Julian , History of the Chapel Hill Fire Department , Chapel Hill's 1914 Fire Truck , The James Taylor Story , Farmer/James Pottery , and The Paul Green Legacy . In addition to the Carolina Inn, the Beta Theta Pi Fraternity House , Chapel Hill Historic District , Chapel Hill Town Hall , Chapel of
12994-728: The church bell. Tryon sent troops from his militia to the region, and defeated the Regulators at the Battle of Alamance in May 1771. Several trials were held after the war, resulting in the hanging of six Regulators at Hillsborough on June 19, 1771. Hillsborough was used as the home of the North Carolina state legislature during the American Revolution . Hillsborough served as a military base by British General Charles Cornwallis in late February 1781. The United States Constitution , drafted in 1787,
13140-407: The construction of a new governor's mansion at New Bern fueled resentment of the movement's members. As the western districts were under-represented in the colonial legislature, the farmers could not obtain redress by legislative means. Ultimately, the frustrated farmers took to arms and closed the court in Hillsborough, dragging those they saw as corrupt officials through the streets and cracking
13286-680: The corners of the Research Triangle (officially the Raleigh-Durham- Cary , NC Combined Statistical Area ), which had an estimated population of 2,368,947 in 2023. The town was founded in 1793 and is centered on Franklin Street , covering 21.3 square miles (55 km). It contains several districts and buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places . The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and UNC Health Care are
13432-567: The county at a presidential level was Herbert Hoover in 1928 – when opposition to the Catholicism of Democratic nominee Al Smith was a powerful force among voters. It has only supported a Republican two other times since the Civil War– William Howard Taft in 1908 and William McKinley in 1900. The county seat of Hillsborough, the city of Chapel Hill and the town of Carrboro historically vote for Democratic candidates, while
13578-419: The county was 78.05% White , 13.79% Black or African American , 0.39% Native American , 4.10% Asian , 0.02% Pacific Islander , 1.96% from other races , and 1.71% from two or more races. 4.46% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. There were 45,863 households, out of which 28.30% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 44.60% were married couples living together, 9.40% had
13724-668: The county were the Andrews family, which would later intermarry with the Lloyd family. The Orange County seat of Hillsborough was founded in 1754 on land where the Great Indian Trading Path crossed the Eno River. This area was first owned, surveyed, and mapped by William Churton (a surveyor for Earl Granville ). Originally to be named Orange, it was named Corbin Town (for Francis Corbin,
13870-524: The county. 74.4% were White , 11.9% Black or African American , 6.7% Asian , 0.4% Native American , 4.0% of some other race and 2.5% of two or more races . 8.2% were Hispanic or Latino (of any race). At the 2000 census , there were 118,227 people, 45,863 households, and 26,141 families living in the county. The population density was 296 people per square mile (114 people/km ). There were 49,289 housing units at an average density of 123 units per square mile (47 units/km ). The racial makeup of
14016-505: The dark themes on the album, and Hourglass was a commercial success, reaching No. 9 on the Billboard 200 (Taylor's first Top 10 album in sixteen years) and also provided a big adult contemporary hit on "Little More Time With You". The album also gave Taylor his first Grammy since JT , when he was honored with Best Pop Album in 1998. Flanked by two greatest hit releases, Taylor's Platinum-certified October Road appeared in 2002 to
14162-514: The fall of 2006, Taylor released a repackaged and slightly different version of his Hallmark Christmas album, now entitled James Taylor at Christmas , and distributed by Columbia/Sony. In 2006, Taylor performed Randy Newman 's song " Our Town " for the Disney animated film Cars . The song was nominated for the 2007 Academy Award for the Best Original Song. On January 1, 2007, Taylor headlined
14308-445: The high-pressure college prep environment despite having a good scholastic performance. The Milton headmaster later said, "James was more sensitive and less goal-oriented than most students of his day." He returned home to North Carolina to finish out the semester at Chapel Hill High School . There he joined a band formed by his brother Alex called The Corsayers (later The Fabulous Corsairs), playing electric guitar; in 1964, they cut
14454-559: The home of James and Nancy Bennett. Their farmhouse is now known as the Bennett Place . The two generals met on April 17, 18 and 26, 1865, negotiating terms of Johnston's surrender. Johnston surrendered 89,270 Southern troops who were active in North Carolina, South Carolina , Georgia, and Florida . This was the largest surrender of troops during the war, and effectively ended the Civil War. Occoneechee Speedway , just outside Hillsborough,
14600-498: The hospital's associated Arlington School . He later viewed his nine-month stay at McLean as "a lifesaver... like a pardon or like a reprieve", and both his brother Livingston and his sister Kate later were patients and students there as well. As for his mental health struggles, Taylor thought of them as innate and said: "It's an inseparable part of my personality that I have these feelings." At Kortchmar's urging, Taylor checked himself out of McLean and attended Elon University for
14746-616: The inaugural concert at the Times Union Center in Albany, New York honoring newly sworn in Governor of New York Eliot Spitzer . Taylor's next album, One Man Band was released on CD and DVD in November 2007 on Starbucks ' Hear Music Label, where he joined with Paul McCartney and Joni Mitchell . The introspective album grew out of a three-year tour of the United States and Europe called
14892-530: The late 1980s, he began touring regularly, especially on the summer amphitheater circuit. His later concerts feature songs spanning his career and are marked by the musicianship of his band and backup singers. The 1993 two-disc Live album captures this, with a highlight being Arnold McCuller 's descants in the codas of " Shower the People " and "I Will Follow". He provided a guest voice to The Simpsons episode " Deep Space Homer ", and also appeared later on in
15038-399: The latest proof that Taylor is a more versatile singer than his best-known hits might suggest. The Covers sessions stretched to include "Oh What a Beautiful Morning", from the musical Oklahoma!, a song that his grandmother had caught him singing over and over at the top of his lungs when he was seven years old. Meanwhile, in summer 2008, Taylor and this band toured 34 North American cities with
15184-446: The long drive from New York City back to his home in Chapel Hill. "Enough To Be on Your Way" was inspired by the alcoholism-related death of his brother Alex earlier in the decade. The themes were also inspired by Taylor and Walker's divorce, which took place in 1996. Rolling Stone Magazine found that "one of the themes of this record is disbelief", while Taylor told the magazine that it was "spirituals for agnostics". Critics embraced
15330-459: The lyrical starting point for Harrison's classic " Something ". McCartney and Asher brought in arranger Richard Anthony Hewson to add both orchestrations to several of the songs and unusual "link" passages between them; they would receive a mixed reception, at best. James had been through so much by the time he was twenty that he had so much to express in his music. Other young artists of his age whom I worked with sang about how good or bad life
15476-420: The nation's Food Bank Network). Parts of the performance shown on CBS Sunday Morning in the December 23, 2007, broadcast showed Taylor alluding to his early drug problems by saying, "I played here a number of times in the 70s, allegedly". Taylor has used versions of this joke on other occasions, and it appears as part of his One Man Band DVD and tour performances. In December 2007, James Taylor at Christmas
15622-460: The northern half of what was left of Orange County became Caswell County . In 1849, the western county became Alamance County . Finally, in 1881, the eastern half of the county's remaining territory was combined with part of Wake County to form Durham County . Some of the first settlers of the county were English Quakers , who settled along the Haw and Eno rivers. Arguably, the earliest settlers in
15768-409: The population was Hispanic or Latino of any race. Of the 20,564 households, 51.1% were families, 26.2% of all households had children under the age of 18 living with them, 40.2% were headed by married couples living together, 8.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 48.9% were not families. About 30.6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 7.7% had someone living alone who
15914-477: The realm of popular music, James Taylor , George Hamilton IV , Southern Culture on the Skids , Superchunk , Polvo , Archers of Loaf , Ben Folds Five , The Kingsbury Manx , Spider Bags and more recently Porter Robinson , are among the most notable musical artists and acts whose careers began in Chapel Hill. The town has also been a center for the modern revival of old-time music and bluegrass with such bands as
16060-490: The recording sessions for his second album there. Titled Sweet Baby James , and featuring the participation of Carole King , the album was released in February 1970 and was Taylor's critical and popular breakthrough, buoyed by the single " Fire and Rain ", a song about both Taylor's experiences attempting to break his drug habit by undergoing treatment in psychiatric institutions and the suicide of his friend Suzanne Schnerr. Both
16206-535: The rural areas of the county favor Republicans. Chapel Hill and Carrboro have a reputation for being two of the most liberal communities in the Southern United States . Carrboro was the first municipality in North Carolina to elect an openly gay mayor , Mike Nelson (who also served as an Orange County commissioner from 2006 to 2010), and the first municipality in the state to grant domestic-partner benefits to same-sex couples. In October 2002, Carrboro
16352-503: The seal, which also serves as the town logo, was most recently updated in 2005 to a visually simpler version. Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools covers most of the towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro , along with portions of unincorporated Orange County, and is recognized for its academic strengths. East Chapel Hill High School , Carrboro High School , and Chapel Hill High School have all received national recognition for excellence, with Newsweek in 2008 ranking East Chapel Hill High as
16498-615: The series when the family put together a jigsaw puzzle with his face as the missing final piece. In 1995, Taylor performed the role of the Lord in Randy Newman's Faust . In 1997, after six years since his last studio album, Taylor released Hourglass , an introspective album that gave him the best critical reviews in almost twenty years. The album had much of its focus on Taylor's troubled past and family. "Jump Up Behind Me" paid tribute to his father's rescue of him after The Flying Machine days, and
16644-629: The service, and fees are collected through UNC Parking. The connecting services are fee-based, but subsidized for UNC students, staff, and faculty. Go Triangle provides connection to the rest of the Triangle ( Raleigh , Durham , and Hillsborough ), of which the Hillsborough service is operated by Chapel Hill Transit, and supplemented mid-day by a county shuttle. The Durham–Orange Light Rail line , which would have run between Chapel Hill and Durham, entered planning and engineering phases in August 2017. The project
16790-460: The single " Shower the People ", an enduring song that hit No. 1 on the Adult Contemporary chart and hit 22 on the Pop Charts. However, the album was not well received, reaching No. 16 and being criticized, particularly by Rolling Stone . Still, In The Pocket went on to be certified gold. With the close of Taylor's contract with Warner, in November, the label released Greatest Hits ,
16936-458: The three corners of the Research Triangle , so named in 1959 with the creation of Research Triangle Park , a research park between Durham and Raleigh. The Morehead Planetarium at UNC opened in 1949, when it was one of only a handful of planetariums in the nation. It continues as an important town landmark and destination for Chapel Hill. During the United States' Mercury , Gemini , and Apollo programs , astronauts were trained there. During
17082-486: The town at large; town elections are held in November of odd-numbered years. Mayor Jessica Anderson , a former council member, succeeded four-term mayor Pam Hemminger in 2023. In 2015, Hemminger defeated incumbent Mark Kleinschmidt , who had been elected in 2009 as the first openly gay mayor of Chapel Hill, succeeding outgoing four-term mayor Kevin Foy . The town adopted its flag in 1990. According to flag designer Spring Davis,
17228-808: The town both house UNC teams. The Dean Smith Center is home to the men's basketball team, while Kenan Memorial Stadium is home to the football team. In addition, Chapel Hill is also home to Carmichael Arena which formerly housed the UNC men's basketball team, and currently is home to the women's team, and to the new Dorrance Field , home to men's and women's soccer and lacrosse teams. Many walking/biking trails are in Chapel Hill. Some of these include Battle Branch Trail, Morgan Creek Trail and Bolin Creek Trail, Chapel Hill's oldest trail and most popular greenway. Chapel Hill has no-fee intracity bus service via Chapel Hill Transit . Park & Ride lots provide financial support for
17374-570: The university are seen throughout the town, even in the fire departments. Each fire station in Chapel Hill has a fire engine (numbers 31, 32, 33, 34, and 35) that is Carolina blue. These engines are also decorated with different UNC decals, including a firefighter Rameses . Chapel Hill also has some new urbanist village communities, such as Meadowmont Village and Southern Village . Meadowmont and Southern Village both have shopping centers, green space where concerts, movies, and other outdoor events have taken place, community pools, and schools. Also,
17520-486: The university's largest donor. Chapel Hill has developed along a hill; the crest was the original site of a small Anglican "chapel of ease", built in 1752, known as New Hope Chapel . The Carolina Inn now occupies this site. In 1819, the town was founded by the NC General Assembly to serve the University of North Carolina and developed around it. The town was chartered in 1851, and its main street, Franklin Street,
17666-504: The war, North Carolina Governor David Lowry Swain persuaded Confederate President Jefferson Davis to exempt some UNC students from the draft, so the university was among the few in the Confederacy that managed to stay open. But, Chapel Hill lost more population during the war than any other village in the South. When student numbers did not recover rapidly enough, the university closed for
17812-624: The western region, were extremely dissatisfied with the wealthy colonial officials whom they considered cruel, arbitrary, tyrannical, and corrupt. With specie scarce, many inland farmers were cash poor and unable to pay their taxes ; they resented the consequent seizure of their property. In addition, local sheriffs sometimes kept taxes for their own gain and sometimes charged twice for the same tax. At times, sheriffs would intentionally remove records of their tax collection to further tax citizens. Rowan , Anson, Orange, Granville, and Cumberland counties were said to be most affected by such corruption. It
17958-472: The writers described his look as "a cowboy Jesus", to which Taylor later replied, "I thought I was trying to look like George Harrison." Released in April 1971, Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon also gained critical acclaim and contained Taylor's biggest hit single in the US, a version of Carole King's new " You've Got a Friend " (featuring backing vocals by Joni Mitchell ), which reached No. 1 on
18104-414: Was 30 years. For every 100 females there were 90.10 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 86.70 males. The median income for a household in the county was $ 42,372, and the median income for a family was $ 59,874. Males had a median income of $ 39,298 versus $ 31,328 for females. The per capita income for the county was $ 24,873. About 6.20% of families and 14.10% of the population were below
18250-462: Was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.35 and the average family size was 2.98. In the town, the population was distributed as 17.4% under the age of 18, 31.5% from 18 to 24, 23.6% from 25 to 44, 18.4% from 45 to 64, and 9.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 25.6 years. For every 100 females, there were 87.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 83.6 males. According to estimates released by
18396-761: Was a critical and commercial disaster and was his first album to miss the Top 5 since his contract with Warner. It received poor reviews and sold only 300,000 copies in the United States. The title track failed to appear on the Top 100. However, Taylor's artistic fortunes spiked again in 1975 when the Gold album Gorilla reached No. 6 and provided one of his biggest hit singles, a version of Marvin Gaye 's " How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You) ", featuring wife Carly on backing vocals and reached No. 5 in America and No. 1 in Canada. On
18542-431: Was a struggle of yeomen farmers and other mostly lower-class citizens, who made up the majority of the population of North Carolina, and the wealthy ruling class, who composed about 5% of the population, yet maintained almost total control of the government. Of the 8,000 people living in Orange County at the time, an estimated 6000 - 7000 of them supported the Regulators. Governor William Tryon 's conspicuous consumption in
18688-509: Was among the first municipalities in the South to pass resolutions opposing the Iraq War and the USA PATRIOT Act . Orange County voted 78.98% against Amendment 1 . This was the highest vote against a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage of any county in the United States, even higher than San Francisco in 2008. The county is served by 2 school districts: Orange County is located in
18834-400: Was but really had no idea what they were singing about. James was already singing with the conviction of a singer much older than himself. Everything that he had already been through was evident in his songwriting. — Peter Asher , Taylor's manager During the recording sessions, Taylor fell back into his drug habit by using heroin and methedrine . He underwent physeptone treatment in
18980-516: Was certified Diamond and has sold 11 million copies in the US alone, making it one of the best-selling albums in US history. Following his 1977 album JT , he has retained a large audience over the decades. Every album that he released from 1977 to 2007 sold over 1 million copies. He enjoyed a resurgence in chart performance during the late 1990s and 2000s, when he recorded some of his most-awarded work (including Hourglass , October Road , and Covers ). He achieved his first number-one album in
19126-519: Was controversial in North Carolina. Delegate meetings at Hillsboro in July 1788 initially voted to reject it for antifederalist reasons. They were persuaded to change their minds partly by the strenuous efforts of James Iredell and William Davie and partly by the prospect of adding a Bill of Rights . The Constitution was later ratified by North Carolina at a convention in Fayetteville . William Hooper ,
19272-555: Was discontinued in April 2019. Orange County, North Carolina Orange County is a county located in the Piedmont region of the U.S. state of North Carolina . As of the 2020 census , the population was 148,696. Its county seat is Hillsborough . Orange County is included in the Durham - Chapel Hill , NC Metropolitan Statistical Area , which is also included in the Raleigh -Durham-Cary, NC Combined Statistical Area , which had an estimated population of 2,368,947 in 2023. It
19418-537: Was encamped between Hillsborough and Greensboro . While camped in Raleigh after his March to the Sea , Union General William T. Sherman offered an armistice to Johnston, who agreed to meet to discuss terms of surrender. Johnston, traveling east from Hillsborough, and Sherman, traveling west from Raleigh along the Hillsborough-Raleigh Road, met roughly half-way near present-day Durham (then Durham Station) at
19564-533: Was generally lukewarm and, despite making the Top 10 of the Billboard Album Charts, its overall sales were disappointing. The lead single, " Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight ", peaked at No. 14 on the Hot 100, and the follow-up, " One Man Parade ", barely reached the Top 75. Almost simultaneously, Taylor married fellow singer-songwriter Carly Simon on November 3, in a small ceremony at her Murray Hill, Manhattan apartment. A post-concert party following
19710-467: Was generally positive, including a complimentary review in Rolling Stone by Jon Landau , who said that "this album is the coolest breath of fresh air I've inhaled in a good long while. It knocks me out." The record's commercial potential suffered from Taylor's inability to promote it because of his hospitalization, and it sold poorly; "Carolina in My Mind" was released as a single but failed to chart in
19856-579: Was great ... and he came and played live, so it was just like, 'Wow, he's great .'" Taylor became the first non-British act signed to Apple, and he credits Asher for "opening the door" to his singing career. Taylor said of Asher, who later became his manager, "I knew from the first time that we met that he was the right person to steer my career. He had this determination in his eye that I had never seen in anybody before." Living chaotically in various places with various women, Taylor wrote additional material, including " Carolina in My Mind ", and rehearsed with
20002-517: Was named in memory of Benjamin Franklin . Four in ten Chapel Hillians were enslaved at the start of the Civil War , and about half of the town was Black. In April 1865, as the war ended, the 9th Michigan Cavalry rode into Chapel Hill and occupied the university and the town for more than two weeks. In 1969, a year after the town fully integrated its schools, Chapel Hill elected Howard Lee as mayor. It
20148-455: Was nominated for a Grammy Award. In January 2008, Taylor recorded approximately 20 songs by others for a new album with a band including Luis Conte , Michael Landau , Lou Marini , Arnold McCuller , Jimmy Johnson , David Lasley , Walt Fowler, Andrea Zonn , Kate Markowitz , Steve Gadd and Larry Goldings . The resulting live-in-studio album, named Covers , was released in September 2008. The album forays into country and soul while being
20294-417: Was on September 15, 2003, at Kenan Memorial Stadium with the E Street Band . U2 also performed at Kenan on the first American date of their 1983 War Tour , where Bono climbed up to the top of the stage, during pouring rain and lightning, holding up a white flag for peace. The 2011 John Craigie song, " Chapel Hill ", is about the singer's first visit there. One song from Dirty , a Sonic Youth album,
20440-531: Was one of the first two NASCAR tracks to open, and is the only track remaining from that inaugural 1949 season. Bill France and the early founders of NASCAR bought land to build a one-mile oval track at Hillsborough, but opposition from local religious leaders prevented the track from being built in the town and NASCAR officials built the large speedway Talladega Superspeedway in Talladega, Alabama . Chapel Hill, along with Durham and Raleigh , makes up one of
20586-452: Was really what I needed. It helped get me back on track. The song "Only a Dream in Rio" was written in tribute to that night, with lines like "I was there that very day and my heart came back alive." The October 1985 album, That's Why I'm Here , from which that song came, started a series of studio recordings that, while spaced further apart than his previous records, showed a more consistent level of quality and fewer covers , most notably
20732-534: Was the first majority-white municipality in the South to elect an African-American mayor. Serving from 1969 to 1975, Lee helped establish Chapel Hill Transit , the town's bus system, and the Mountains-to-Sea trail . Some 30 years later, in 2002, the state passed legislation to provide free service to all riders on local buses. The bus operations are funded through Chapel Hill and Carrboro town taxes, federal grants, and UNC student tuition. The change has resulted in
20878-467: Was the first of two land grants in what is now the Chapel Hill-Durham area. Though William Barbee died shortly after settling there in 1758, one of his eight children, Christopher Barbee, became an important contributor to his father's adopted community and to the fledgling University of North Carolina . In 1792, he offered the trustees of UNC 221 acres on which the university is now built, making him
21024-458: Was the first planetarium built on a U.S. college campus. When it opened in 1949, it was one of six planetariums in the nation and has remained an important town landmark. During the Mercury , Gemini , and Apollo programs , astronauts were trained there. One of the town's hallmark features is the giant sundial, located in the green square in front of the planetarium on Franklin Street. Influences of
21170-437: Was the first predominantly white municipality in the country to elect an African-American mayor. Lee served from 1969 until 1975. Among other achievements, he helped establish Chapel Hill Transit , the town's bus system. According to the U.S. Census Bureau , the county has a total area of 400.96 square miles (1,038.5 km ), of which 397.56 square miles (1,029.7 km ) is land and 3.40 square miles (8.8 km ) (0.85%)
21316-611: Was then regent of the Dutch Republic ; or William of Orange , who became William III of England after the overthrow of James II in the Glorious Revolution . In 1771, Orange County was greatly reduced in area. The western part of it was combined with the eastern part of Rowan County to form Guilford County . Another part was combined with parts of Cumberland County and Johnston County to form Wake County . The southern part of what remained became Chatham County . In 1777,
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