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And the only reference to his first wife, Carly Simon, occurs as he is recalling his childhood summers on Martha's Vineyard, where he says he first met the Simon sisters who, at 14, were out of his league. He married Simon in 1972, a few years after "Break Shot" cuts off. Her own memory Simon — with whom Taylor has two adult children, Sally, 46, and Ben, 43 — wrote her own memoir in 2015, "Boys in the Trees." In the book, she wrote extensively about her 10-year marriage to Taylor, detailing how she watched him shoot up in a room at the Chateau Marmont and her intense physical attraction to him. But if Taylor was upset about the revelations in Simon's book, he doesn't show it. "I think she's been pretty kind to me, and that's certainly her story to tell," he says of his ex-wife, who told The Los Angeles Times in 2015 that her kids weren't allowed to give her Taylor's phone number. Flanagan didn't push for such detail, anyway, he says: "By 21, he'd spent time in a mental institution, got into a motorcycle accident, got addicted to heroin, started playing music with The Beatles. I just felt there was so much good stuff that I was very, very happy with ending it there." The idea of someday sharing more about his life isn't particularly appealing to Taylor, who still has trouble viewing himself as in any way exceptional. In The Barn, memorabilia from his celebrated career — magazine covers, photos with politicians, commemorative record sale plaques — was put on the walls of the stairwell only after his assistant asked if she could take the keepsakes out of storage. (His five Grammy awards rest on shelves above her desk on the second floor of the office.) "I certainly don't have anything enlightening to say," he says of the prospect of a future written memoir. "This Audible thing is fine, you know? It takes the part before I was known, and basically sort of lays it down, and I think it is an interesting story with a couple of lessons to be learned from it about parenting, about how we help young people become adults." James the father Taylor has two other children, 18-year-old twins Rufus and Henry, with his third wife, Caroline "Kim" Smedvig, whom he married in 2001. Like their father, the boys attend Milton Academy and both are interested in music. Rufus is a fan of musical theater, while Henry is the head of the school's male a cappella group and plays jazz guitar. Raising his younger boys, Taylor says, he was especially cognizant of making sure his sons realized that "their parents' emotional needs are not their responsibility." As he recites in "Break Shot," he often felt he had to parent his parents — particularly during ages 7 to 9, when his father left the family for two years to serve as a medical officer for the U.S. Navy in Antarctica. The eventual divorce of Taylor's parents was hard on him, and as an adult, he invited his father to one of his therapy sessions in New York to discuss it. Taylor has found himself reflecting more on his youth as he ages. "It seems to be a time of summing up," he says, "when there's a finite amount of time that remains." When he listens to music — which is, in fact, a rarity, because he prefers silence so he can "put something together" in his head — he finds himself returning to favorites from his childhood. "American Standard," which he began work on in 2018, includes 14 guitar- centric arrangements of songs he treasured as a boy: "The Surrey With the Fringe on Top" from "Oklahoma!," Henry Mancini's "Moon River" from "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and Rodgers and Hammerstein's "You've Got to Be Carefully Taught," from "South Pacific." In May, Taylor is scheduled to embark on a 26-date U.S. tour with Jackson Browne to promote the new music. The tour isn't stopping in Arkansas but opens at 7:30 p.m. May 15 at Smoothie King Center in New Orleans. On June 27, Taylor will stop at the FedEx Forum in Memphis. He is rarely at home for more than a month but tries to balance his touring schedule just enough so that he doesn't tire of it. "In its season, there's nothing like it," he says of being on the road. "I don't know if I've got another studio album in me of my own material. It's hard to know what will happen in the next 10 years. I'm still writing. I feel as though I've done this all my life, and I just want to take it as far as I can go." Taylor Continued From Page 39