premise: Hourglass was James Taylor's first album in over half a decade.
hypothesis: Hourglass is singer-songwriter James Taylor 's fourteenth studio album . Taylor 's first studio album in six years was released in 1997 to glowing notices . James Taylor . His chart performance had a resurgence during the late 1990s and 2000s , when he recorded some of his most-awarded work ( including Hourglass , October Road , and Covers ) .