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Steamroller Blues
"Steamroller Blues", often labelled just "Steamroller", is a blues parody written by James Taylor, that first appeared on his 1970 breakthrough album ''Sweet Baby James''. The song title comes from the first line: "I'm a steamroller baby, I'm bound to roll all over you...". It was a multi-sectioned walking tune full of phrases such as "I'm a napalm bomb for you, baby" and "I'm a churnin' urn of burnin' funk." It exposed a humorous side of Taylor that was sometimes obscured by his more intensely personal work, and thus became one of Taylor's best-known songs.
==Mocking White-Blues==
Rock journalist David Browne writes that "()uring the Flying Machine days in the Village, Taylor had heard one too many pretentious white blues bands and wrote "Steamroller" to mock them."〔''Fire and Rain: The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSNY and the Lost Story of 1970'' (2011: Boston, Da Capo Press), p. 62〕 Taylor and Danny Kortchmar, both playing electric guitars, laid down the track in one night at Sunset Studios, the rhythm section being added later. A tight budget and production schedule forced Taylor to record the song despite suffering from a severe head cold. His congestion can be heard in the final take.〔Browne ''ibid''., p. 63〕 According to ''Rolling Stone Album Guide'' critic Mark Coleman, Taylor "effectively mocks the straining pomposity of then-current white bluesmen."
"Steamroller" was included on Taylor's diamond-selling ''Greatest Hits'' 1976 compilation in a live version recorded in August 1975 at the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles; a different performance from 1992 was included on his 1993 album ''(LIVE)''. Indeed "Steamroller" was and is a James Taylor concert fixture, appearing in virtually every set list of his over the decades.
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