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Add Your New Review About The Song The Reviews about Millworker (page 1/1) ------ performed by James Taylor Late for work | Reviewer: Richard Addison | 12/2/09 I've come to this song very late, via a wonderful British TV show called Transatlantic Sessions (with Jerry Douglas, Dan Tyminski, Martha Wainwright and a whole bunch of wonderful Celtic musicians - well worth checking out) I know it came from the Studs Terkel-based musical, but I'm not clear as to whether Terkel wrote the lyric. It's a beautiful, haunting but unsentimental song and it wasn't until I checked it out on You-tube that I discovered just how many people had covered it. Unlike the earlier reviewer, I don't prefer the Emmylou Harris version, fine though it is - a touch too pretty perhaps. What interests me about the song is it's structure, with a "middle eight" coming so near the end - gives a fantastic emotional pull to take it home. "Millworker" lyrics | Reviewer: Brian Oliver | 4/13/07 Of course JT composed it, so his lyrics are the definitive ones. Both Bette Midler and Emmylou Harris exercised artists' rights to modify them (slightly)in their renditions. As a P.S., I favor Emmylou's version, but it sure sounds as if James is doing haronmies on her track. Perhaps guitar as well. Add Your New Review About The Song