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Telephone Interview

: Some fans wondered if this might be his last collection of original songs and the 67-year-old admits he once thought the same thing. "There definitely more road behind me than there is ahead of me," he said in a recent telephone interview. "And I thought going into it, 'Well, it took 12 years to get in there the last time, according to CTV. Let see, do the math: I'd be 79 by the time I got back in the studio. That how long it took the soul-soothing singer-songwriter to put out "Before This World," on sale Tuesday. Is that likely Well, maybe not."' But the five-time Grammy Award winner found it "so satisfying and so much fun to cook up a new batch" of tunes that he changed his mind. "I definitely want to get back to it and do it again," said a genial Taylor, from his home recording studio in Washington, Mass. "I'm not sure what form it will take, but it not going to be another 12 years. Taylor said some of the tunes on "Before This World," produced by Grammy winner Dave O'Donnell, have been in the works for even longer than 12 years. "You And I Again," for instance, began over 20 years ago as a simple piano piece he'd play every time he sat down at the keys. There will be another one." "Before This World" is Taylor first album of new tunes since 2002 platinum-selling "October Road," but he has toured and had several releases in the interim, including a Christmas collection. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.