James Taylor to Sing at World Series
BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN ANCHOR: Here we go, and they're here, James Taylor, his wife, Kim. It is so lovely to see you all. Come on over. It's chilly here in Boston. It's a chilly, chilly, chilly. So it's a pleasure to see you. We keep bumping into each other here in Boston, Boston Strong show. It's lovely to see both of you, a happier occasion finally. I love that I'm standing with you so closely. Forgive me, but it is --</s>JAMES TAYLOR, MUSICIAN: I'm liking it, too.</s>BALDWIN: So we're talking to you because this is really a special moment, not just for Boston, for the nation as everyone mourned with what happened six months ago. You two are singing "America the Beautiful," national anthem tonight. Do you call the Sox or did the Sox call you?</s>J. TAYLOR: I don't know exactly how it happened. Kim called me and told me it was on. That's how I knew, so I think someone called her.</s>BALDWIN: They called you. Now, this is a superstitious sport.</s>J. TAYLOR: It is.</s>BALDWIN: So we know what happened in '04 and in '07. You performed, game two, both of those, and we know the sweeping that happened to the Sox. But tonight will be different. Why?</s>J. TAYLOR: Well, you know, it's always unpredictable. You know, it's -- you can never be sure, and you certainly don't want to jinx it.</s>BALDWIN: No jinxing.</s>KIM TAYLOR, WIFE OF JAMES TAYLOR: No jinxing.</s>J. TAYLOR: We're going to work on our anti-jinx.</s>K. TAYLOR: Many layers of sox paraphernalia.</s>J. TAYLOR: It's deep. It's profound and passionate. It does. Tonight is different. It feels like a sadder and wiser Boston, but somehow, we pull together and carry on, you know? It's really -- it's wonderful that this has happened this year. You know what I'm saying?</s>BALDWIN: I do know what you're saying. I think I know what you're saying, James Taylor. What is it, though, about your music, do you think, that has this to me I feel like crisis after crisis, you know? You have this power to unite. You do. You're shaking your head, but to help heal. What is it about your music, do you think, that has that kind of power?</s>J. TAYLOR: It's music in general. You know, music is -- it reminds us that the universe loves us. That's what it is. It is -- music is a human language, but it's also a physical reality in the universe, undeniable, empirically true, so it shows us that there is grace. You know, there's no mistake that the church has always, you know, been the home of music, and that it's always associated with sort of spiritual things, you know, because it is.</s>BALDWIN: I see people nodding. I wish you could see the crowd that has -- and everyone is nodding about the grace and the healing and the applause. Kim, do I see a Red Sox beard sported on your husband?</s>K. TAYLOR: Yes, that's exactly what you see.</s>BALDWIN: Is that what that is?</s>J. TAYLOR: You've got to look quick because it's going.</s>BALDWIN: He is -- James Taylor is sporting the Red Sox beard.</s>K. TAYLOR: We tried it, but --</s>BALDWIN: So you're saying ixnay on the beard once they win the Series? Is that the plan?</s>K. TAYLOR: Its demise might be a little sooner than that.</s>J. TAYLOR: I don't know. That might be bad.</s>K. TAYLOR: It might be bad karma? We don't know.</s>BALDWIN: Yeah, we don't know, again, superstitious sport.</s>J. TAYLOR: We're sticking with the beard through the series.</s>BALDWIN: Final question, as we're surrounded with -- I see Cardinal fans as well, but what is it about this baseball team that you -- seems like this story, this team here, this year has really superseded sports. How has this team helped this city heal?</s>K. TAYLOR: I think they were so quick, I mean, literally, the day of the marathon bombing --</s>BALDWIN: They played right here, the day.</s>K. TAYLOR: And then they responded with so many ways, visited the people who were injured in the hospital, have kept up the connection. And it's just has been such a good year to be good, to play so well and to be such stand-up guys. It's just -- it's an amazing confluence of events, and Boston needed it. And there they were. And here we are.</s>BALDWIN: And here we are. Kim and James, thank you both. We'll be watching you all.</s>J. TAYLOR: We'll stay here forever.</s>BALDWIN: Deal. I'm not letting go. So, James Taylor and Kim, life highlight, happening right now on CNN. Thank you both very much. Coming up, he was just doing his schoolwork here. A Cleveland student was told to write a poem about something that made him angry, so he did, and it had to do with the football team he was on. And that got him suspended from the team and the school. Coming up next, we're going to talk to this youngster. He's going to read us the poem that apparently got him in so much trouble. We will be right back.