Arnold McCuller is an American vocalist, songwriter, and record producer, born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. He was active as a solo artist and session musician, but is perhaps best known for his work as a touring back-up singer with artists such as James Taylor, Linda Ronstadt, Phil Collins, Beck, Bonnie Raitt, and Todd Rundgren. He toured for forty-five years with Taylor and is an audience favorite for his featured vocal parts on the songs "Shower the People", "I Will Follow", and "Is That the Way You Look". He has also toured extensively with Collins and is one of the main lead vocalists on the live version of "Easy Lover". In 2010 McCuller joined the Troubadour Reunion Tour supporting James Taylor and Carole King.
McCuller with Lyle Lovett & His Large Band At the Orpheum Theatre
McCuller singing his coda part to "Shower the People" on the 2010 Troubadour Reunion Tour
James Vernon Taylor is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. A six-time Grammy Award winner, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000.
Taylor in 1977
A publicity photograph of Taylor for his second studio album Sweet Baby James, December 1969
Taylor in a publicity photograph for his 1971 studio album Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon
Taylor and Simon in concert, 1975