Carole King - Tapestry-Legacy Edition (2-CD)
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Artist: Carole KingEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2008-04-22
Music Label: Sony Legacy
Soundtracks:
- I Feel The Earth Move
- So Far Away
- It's Too Late
- Home Again
- Beautiful
- Way Over Yonder
- You've Got A Friend
- Where You Lead
- Will You Love Me Tomorrow?
- Smackwater Jack
- Tapestry
- (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman
Music reviews of Tapestry-Legacy Edition (2-CD)
Music Review: Finely Woven
Rating: 5 Stars
This landmark album from the 70's is one that my older sister owned and played endlessly, using seemingly to tap into an innermost emotional well that only teen-aged girls seem to possess. I just remember that I thought every single song was great and how personal "Tapestry" sounded to my young ears. Now, almost 40 years later, that weird jumble of teen hormones having long dissipated and my sister well into adulthood, I cam listen to Carole King with an experienced heart and mind, and it holds up as a classic from the era.
"Tapestry" was one of the first albums of the singer/songwriter era that held together as an entity, and now rings pure as a dozen songs that meld into a seamless whole. King had already honed her skills as an ace commercial songwriter with husband Gerry Goffin, and this was her coming out party. As such, the twelve songs on "Tapestry" run the gamut of the confessional "It's Too Late" to the committal "You've Got a Friend" to emancipation ("Natural Woman"). It's a testament to the staying power of "Tapestry" that half of this album became hits for Carole and others (especially James Taylor's classic version of "Friend"), and the others are almost instantly recognizable.
It was that identifiable quality that raised "Tapestry" and, by association, King as a solo artist. It also opened doors for the likes of Carly Simon, Joan Armatrading and Taylor. The second disc of this set includes 11 of the album's songs recorded on various tours (missing is "Where You Lead"), with just King alone at the piano. It makes this double set a keeper for those of us that have let "Tapestry" slip from our grasp over the years.
Description of Tapestry-Legacy Edition (2-CD)
Carole King is a legendary songwriter who has crafted a myriad of hit songs for other artists but by writing and performing her own material she charted new ground with Tapestry. Now you can experience Carole's vision in its original "unplugged" brilliance. This deluxe 2 CD Legacy Edition features previously unreleased live piano-voice renditions of Tapestry songs in the original album sequence. A runaway-train success, this landmark album stayed on the national charts for a mind-boggling six years and won King four Grammys?. "I Feel The Earth Move," "It's Too Late" and "So Far Away" were heard everywhere in the '70s on a string of newly-minted FM radio stations featuring adult-oriented rock."You'll hear suggested guitar and bass lines, and background vocal parts, because that's the way she plays the piano...that was the brilliance of her demos and that's the way I heard these songs for the first time." Lou Adler, producer
DISC TWO: Previously unreleased live piano-voice renditions of Tapestry songs in the original album sequence
Live material recorded in 1973 in Boston, Massachusetts; Columbia, Maryland; and Central Park, New York City, New York and in 1976 at the San Francisco Opera House, San Francisco, California.
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