Hey all, sorry I hadn't written in a while. I have a concert coming up next week, so I've been running pretty ragged. But, never fear I have thoughts, and have been listening to music and such.
Tapestry. This is the reason why I started listening to these albums. To find the hidden gems that I had overlooked in my life. What a fantastic album, what fantastic song, and most of all what a fantastic singer. The story behind Carole King is pretty fascinating. Well, let me start that again. It's not fascinating to us now, because we've heard this story too many times to count. Anyway, back then it was a fascinating story. OK, sorry, moving on. She started as a song-writer with her husband, wrote a bunch of songs, most notably for guys like James Taylor. Well, one day, Taylor says to her "you should put out an album where you sing your own songs". Novel concept right? so she does it, and the "singer-songwriter" is born.
* Note: after some research I see that she actually released an album in 1970, one year before tapestry, so move the story back one more year, when she released a commercial failure. THEN she released Tapestry and her career was off the ground
I highly recommend taking a listen to this one, it's got all the hits you could have sworn that somebody else wrote. It's always amazing to realize that all this genius you thought was spread out over 10 different groups, was coming out of the same mind.
Starting another goal for this summer tomorrow...Golf.
Tapestry. This is the reason why I started listening to these albums. To find the hidden gems that I had overlooked in my life. What a fantastic album, what fantastic song, and most of all what a fantastic singer. The story behind Carole King is pretty fascinating. Well, let me start that again. It's not fascinating to us now, because we've heard this story too many times to count. Anyway, back then it was a fascinating story. OK, sorry, moving on. She started as a song-writer with her husband, wrote a bunch of songs, most notably for guys like James Taylor. Well, one day, Taylor says to her "you should put out an album where you sing your own songs". Novel concept right? so she does it, and the "singer-songwriter" is born.
* Note: after some research I see that she actually released an album in 1970, one year before tapestry, so move the story back one more year, when she released a commercial failure. THEN she released Tapestry and her career was off the ground
I highly recommend taking a listen to this one, it's got all the hits you could have sworn that somebody else wrote. It's always amazing to realize that all this genius you thought was spread out over 10 different groups, was coming out of the same mind.
Starting another goal for this summer tomorrow...Golf.
Stats
Album: Tapestry
Artist: Carole King
Year: 1971
My Favorite Song: Man, so many...how 'bout: It's Too Late
Tomorrow: Hotel California
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