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Whatever the other Taylors do, James, at least, has made his own special music—which is also his own special kind of salvation. He probably always will, if only to throw a sound back to the sea at Martha's Vineyard, where he has just built a house. Between road trips and recording sessions, Alex lives on the island too. So does Kate. So does the youngest Taylor, Hugh, 18, who reportedly has the best male voice in the family but so far prefers to work as a carpenter. "It just may be," says James, pondering the enduring pull of the Vineyard upon them all, "that we can't find anything more comfortable than the time we had as a family." And he adds: "Or maybe it's something that was never there that we miss and are still trying to put together."