October Road (album)
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| Released | August 13, 2002 | |||
| Recorded | Early 2000–2002 | |||
| Studio | Linden Oaks Studios (Rochester, NY) Q Division Studios (Somerville, MA) Secret Sound (New York City, NY) Flying Monkey Studios (New York City, NY) Right Track Recording (New York City, NY) Signal Path Studios (Nashville, TN) The Village Recorder (Los Angeles, CA) Capitol Studios (Los Angeles, CA) | |||
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| Length | 52:00 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Producer | Russ Titelman | |||
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October Road is the 15th studio album by singer-songwriter James Taylor, released in 2002. The album would be Taylor's last album of original material until Before This World in 2015. It was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Performance at the 45th Grammy Awards in 2003. The album debuted at number four on the Billboard 200 with 154,000 copies sold in its opening week, Taylor's best-performing album in the SoundScan era. The album was certified Platinum by the RIAA on November 21, 2002, and had sold 1,076,000 copies in the United States as of May 2015.
The album has two versions: a single-disc version and a "limited edition" two-disc version, which contains three extra songs, as well as a video presentation.