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“I should’ve died Affiliatesabout five times. So I’ve used up all of my chances.”Support Tickets away from the traditional record industry. For the first time since he signed his first deal with the Beatles’Apple Records, back in 1968, he has no record contract -and no plans DNS Hostingto get one, instead striking album-by-album distri¬bution agreements. (Covers will be released by Starbucks’ Hear Music.) “It’s a changing sort of landscape,” Taylor says. “From the time I started off in this en¬terprise, it was all about trying to get a long-term contract with the record houses. And that’s just not the case anymore.” Taylor has sketched out the next 10 or so years of his career – and other than the occasional tour, it doesn’t seem like there will be much cause to leave his woodsy compound, which he, Kim and their seven-year-old twins, Rufus and Henry, share with wandering bears, coyotes, turkeys and hawks. “I grew up in the woods in North Carolina, so this feels good to me,” says Tay¬lor. The barn – built from scratch to Taylor’s specifications, with modular soundproofing walls -allows him to record on his own time, at his own pace. There may be more covers records -he’s discussed bringing his band together each winter for these sessions. He wants to make an orchestral album, too, combin¬ing standards and rearranged versions of his own songs – the barn is big enough to record a full symphony orchestra. And then there’s an album of original songs, which will be his first since 2002′s platinum
