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Carole King: Tapestry

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Label: Ode Records
Released: 1971.02.10
Time:
 50:36
Category: Pop, Blue-Eyed Soul, Soft Rock
Producer(s): Lou Adler
Rating:
Media type: CD
Web address: www.caroleking.com
Appears with:
Purchase date: 2012
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] I Feel the Earth Move (C.King) - 3:00
[2] So Far Away (C.King) - 3:55
[3] It's Too Late (C.King/T.Stern) - 3:54
[4] Home Again (C.King) - 2:29
[5] Beautiful (C.King) - 3:08
[6] Way Over Yonder (C.King) - 4:49
[7] You've Got a Friend (C.King) - 5:09
[8] Where You Lead (C.King/T.Stern) - 3:20
[9] Will You Love Me Tomorrow? (G.Goffin/C.King) - 4:13
[10] Smackwater Jack (G.Goffin/C.King) - 3:42
[11] Tapestry (C.King) - 3:15
[12] (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman (G.Goffin/C.King/J.Wexler) - 3:59

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Carole King - Piano, Keyboards, Vocals, Background Vocals

Curtis Amy - Flute, Baritone, Soprano & Tenor Saxophone, String Quartet
Steve Barzyk - Drums
David Campbell - Cello, Viola
Merry Clayton - Background Vocals
Terry King - Cello, Tenor Saxophone, String Quartet
Danny "Kootch" Kortchmar - Acoustic Guitar, Conga, Electric Guitar, Vocals
Russ Kunkel - Drums
Charles "Charlie" Larkey - Bass Guitar, String Bass, String Quartet
Joni Mitchell - Background Vocals
Joel O'Brien - Drums
Ralph Schuckett - Electric Piano
Barry Socher - Violin, Tenor Saxophone, Viola, String Quartet
Perry Steinberg - Bass Guitar, Violin, Tenor Saxophone, String Bass
James Taylor - Acoustic Guitar, Granfalloon, Backing Vocals, Liner Notes
Julia Tillman - Background Vocals

Lou Adler - Production
Vic Anesini - Mastering
Chuck Beeson - Design
Hank Cicalo - Engineering
Bob Irwin - Production On 1999 Re-Release
Jessica Killorin - Packaging Manager
Jim Mccrary - Photography
Michael Pultand - Artwork
Smay Vision - Design
Roland Young - Art Direction

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Recorded in January 1971 in Studio B, A&M Recording Studios.



Carole King brought the fledgling singer/songwriter phenomenon to the masses with Tapestry, one of the most successful albums in pop music history. A remarkably expressive and intimate record, it's a work of consummate craftsmanship. Always a superior pop composer, King reaches even greater heights as a performer; new songs like the hits "It's Too Late" and "I Feel the Earth Move" rank solidly with past glories, while songs like "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow," and "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" take on added resonance when delivered in her own warm, compelling voice. With its reliance on pianos and gentle drumming, Tapestry is a light and airy work on its surface, occasionally skirting the boundaries of jazz, but it's also an intensely emotional record, the songs confessional and direct; in its time it connected with listeners like few records before it, and it remains an illuminating experience decades later.

Jason Ankeny - All Music Guide



For nearly a decade, Carole King wrote Brill Building pop with her then-husband, Gerry Goffin: hits such as Little Eva's "The Loco-Motion" (Eva Boyd was the couple's baby sitter) and the Monkees' "Pleasant Valley Sunday." Then King's friend James Taylor encouraged her to sing her own tunes. She slowed down "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" (originally a hit for the Shirelles in 1960), heightening the melancholy inside, while her warm, earnest singing brought out the sadness in "So Far Away" and "It's Too Late" and the earthy joy on "I Feel the Earth Move." On Tapestry, King remade herself as an artist and created the reigning model for the 1970s female singer-songwriter – not to mention a blockbuster pop record of enduring artistic quality.

500 Greatest Albums of All Time
RollingStone.com



Carole King was famous as a writer of girl-group hits in the '60s. In 1971, she became more famous. That's the year Tapestry became one of the biggest-selling LPs of all time. It's easy to hear why--the music is loose, earthy, L.A. session-pop. King is casual, intimate, and tough; she covers all the emotional ground of the post-liberated woman with ease. She brings adult nuance to "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?" and comes up with hits ("It's Too Late," "I Feel the Earth Move") whose white-soul realism and maturity put pop hits to shame.

Steve Tignor - Amazon.com



Tapestry is the second album by singer-songwriter Carole King, released in 1971 on Ode Records and produced by Lou Adler. It is one of the best-selling albums of all time, with over 25 million copies sold worldwide. In the United States, it has been certified diamond by the RIAA with more than 10 million copies sold. It received four Grammy Awards in 1972, including Album of the Year. The lead single from the album — "It's Too Late"/"I Feel the Earth Move" — reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, and remained on the chart for 17 weeks. In 2003, Tapestry was ranked number 36 on Rolling Stone list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

King wrote or co-wrote all of the songs on the album, several of which had already been hits for other artists such as Aretha Franklin's "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" and The Shirelles' "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" (in 1960). Three songs were co-written with King's ex-husband Gerry Goffin. James Taylor, who encouraged King to sing her own songs and who also played on Tapestry, would later have a #1 hit with "You've Got a Friend". Two songs were co-written with Toni Stern: "It's Too Late" and "Where You Lead".

The cover photograph was taken by A&M staff photographer Jim McCrary at King's Laurel Canyon home. It shows her sitting in a window frame, holding a tapestry she hand-stitched herself, with her cat Telemachus at her feet.

Tapestry was number 1 on the Billboard 200 for 15 consecutive weeks, and held the record for most weeks at number 1 by a female solo artist for over 20 years until surpassed by Whitney Houston's The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack Album in 1993, which spent 20 weeks at number 1. It still holds the record for most consecutive weeks at number 1 by a female solo artist. The album has been listed on the Billboard 200 for over 300 weeks between 1971 and 2011, the longest by a female solo artist. In terms of time on the charts, it ranks fifth overall, and in terms of length on the charts for solo musical acts it ranks second. Of all the albums by female artists to be certified diamond, it was the first released, although it was not the first being certified.

The album was well received by critics; Robert Christgau felt that her voice, raw and imperfect, free of "technical decorum", would liberate female singers while Jon Landau in Rolling Stone felt that King was one of the most creative pop music figures and had created an album of "surpassing personal-intimacy and musical accomplishment".
Awards

Along with being selected Album of the Year, it also received Grammys for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, Record of the Year ("It's Too Late"), and Song of the Year ("You've Got a Friend"), making King the first solo female artist to win the Grammy Award for Record of the Year, and the first female to win the Grammy Award for Song of the Year.

In 2003, the album was ranked number 36 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. In 2001, the VH1 TV network named Tapestry the 39th greatest album ever. In 2003, it was one of 50 recordings chosen by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry. The album remained on the Billboard charts for 513 weeks (second only to Pink Floyd's 724 weeks with "Dark Side of the Moon").

Several of the songs on Tapestry were recorded by other artists and became hit singles while the album was still on the charts: James Taylor's 1971 recording of "You've Got a Friend" hit No. 1needed] and Barbra Streisand's 1971 studio recording of "Where You Lead" reached No. 40, while a live recording from the next year reached No. 37. In 2010, Australian recording artist Marcia Hines recorded a tribute album, "Marcia Sings Tapestry".

Various artists combined to re-record all the original tracks for more than one tribute album; the first, released in 1995, entitled Tapestry Revisited: A Tribute to Carole King, which was certified gold, and the second, released in 2003, entitled A New Tapestry — Carole King Tribute.

In 2003, Tapestry was named No. 36 on Rolling Stone '​s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, was listed by VH1 as No. 39 on their list of 100 Greatest Albums, and was one of 50 recordings chosen to be added to the National Recording Registry. Recordings added to the National Recording Registry are picked to be preserved in the Library of Congress, the largest library in the world, as they are "culturally, historically, or aesthetically important."

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