James Taylor seems to have settled comfortably into his house at the edge of a state forest down a long, country road in the town of Washington, Massachusetts.

He first came to the Berkshires in 1968 as a twenty-year-old seeking help at Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. It was a troubled time in his life, when he was battling depression and drug addiction, and he’s spoken candidly about it over the years, including a now obligatory shout-out to the place every time he performs at Tanglewood just up the road in Lenox.