Rock and Roll Hall of Famer James Taylor will return to Xcel Energy Center on June 17 for his sixth performance in the downtown St. Paul hockey arena.
Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday through Ticketmaster.
Unlike other recent local shows from Taylor that featured high-profile openers like Bonnie Raitt and Jackson Browne, this one will feature the relatively unknown Boston folk trio Tiny Habits warming the stage.
A six-time Grammy winner, Taylor began playing guitar at the age of 12 and wrote his first song two years later. But he struggled in high school and ended up spending nine months in a psychiatric hospital dealing with severe depression. Taylor later moved to Manhattan to pursue music, but found little success as well as an addiction to heroin.
After a stint in rehab, Taylor used a family inheritance to move to London where he became the first non-British act signed to the Beatles’ Apple Records label in 1968. It wasn’t until yet another relocation, this time to California, that Taylor broke through with his sophomore album “Sweet Baby James” and the single “Fire and Rain.”
From there, Taylor enjoyed a run of hits with “You’ve Got a Friend,” “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely Tonight,” “How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You),” “Shower the People” and “Handy Man.” He has continued to tour and make new music, including his most recent album “American Standard,” his 20th overall and a Grammy winner for best traditional pop vocal album.
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