It’s sort of a musical Rosetta stone, and a huge testament to what an incredible interpreter of the human experience she was, and continues to be. 8–9 May 2021 SECOND SHOW ADDED! Audiences were amazed by her deep musical catalog, and captivated by her life story. Tapestry is performed and produced without pretence. Ouch! Not just that we were both musicians but as if we shared a common ear, a parallel musical/emotional path. Tapestry 50th Anniversary Limited Edition Bundle Our special 50th Anniversary Bundle, which includes limited edition items exclusive to the Official Carole King Online Store. She was probably in some mental-spiritual prime, and then when she realised what fame entailed she was like: “No way.” She cared more about her personal life. It was for me a time of deep introspection and this song expressed a vulnerability that each of us experiences in the course of finding and embracing love. Among Schuckett's credits are a number of Carole King's early solo albums, including her landmark 1971 chart-topper Tapestry. It’s a tradition we’ve carried on a few times during quarantine over the phone. 1 by Once she left the songwriting world and started writing for herself, it got less straightforward and more personal. I knew I wanted it to be shot on film, and I wanted it to showcase a window in my home at the time. To date, more than 400 of her compositions have been recorded by more than 1,000 artists, resulting in 100 hit singles. Carole King performing in London in 1970. Sold Out. She started writing by herself, about herself – that is to say, from her own life. But why this down-to-earth, subtle take on Natural Woman, on that song by James Taylor? Why that supposed movement didn’t begin with Bob Dylan or even Woody Guthrie or Robert Johnson beats me – maybe they were still “folk”. In a first for a female writer/artist, Tapestry spawned four GRAMMY Awards® — Record, Song and Album Of The Year as well as Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female honors for Carole. Carole’s songs made me want to sing her melodies and her harmonies and I felt closer to her while finding my path as a singer even at that young age. Certainly she would have her adventures, dramatic emotional switchbacks, in years to come. I was about to audition for choir. I always leaned toward rock in the classical world. Our collaboration, our extended musical conversation over the next three or four years was really something wonderful. She’s also the master of sentimentality, nostalgia and homesickness but delivered without any syrup. Consequently, the types of records that Tapestry made it possible to make and sell in large numbers – records that are vulnerable, confessional, sung and played by the person who wrote the songs and “classic” in sound and sentiment – often feel emotionally supercharged, where Tapestry feels plain-spoken and easy. She had no time for the stuff the rest of us in Laurel Canyon were up to. Commenting has been disabled at this time but you can still, for the stuff the rest of us in Laurel Canyon. But in those days, she seemed to watch the dancers with a kind, wry detachment. I reconnected with King’s music when I was in high school. That is a delicate balance that I strive for in my own life every day. I’ve heard that song so many times, but a few weeks ago it came on the radio when I was driving, and I was totally stunned. The radical thing about Tapestry is its refusal to be iconic. Carole King on songwriting in the age of Trump: 'I am the honest opposition', Beyond Tapestry: five more Carole King albums to investigate, Carole King's Tapestry feels like a comfort blanket, until you hear the anxiety within it, Carole King performing in 1972, the year after Tapestry was released. Carole's many late-career achievements include a 50th anniversary Troubadour reunion run 
with James Taylor that became the RIAA gold- certified Live At The Troubadour, inspiring the pair’s 60-concert Troubadour Reunion world tour in 2010. They don’t make records like Carole King’s Tapestry any more. I heard those songs even before I knew who she was. In 1967 Goffin and King’s “Natural Woman”
was immortalized by Aretha Franklin. I can relate to her musical sensibility – being classically trained like I was, but writing pop songs and singing these very deep things. When you write a song it’s almost mystical. Folk rock had long dominated the FM airwaves when music began to make a move back to the fundamentals of songwriting: the three-minute song, the chorus sung thrice, the bridge – an endangered passage from one end of the song to the other. Carole’s focus was her family: [children] Louise and Sherry, and imminently, Levi and Molly. Tapestry was the most important record of its time. Tapestry was inducted into the GRAMMY Hall Of Fame® in 1998. I had to get past the fact that I wasn’t going to sound like Linda Ronstadt or Joni Mitchell or Carole King, but from Carole I learned that you can accept your own voice and work within your limitations, which was liberating. The sum of the song was greater than the words themselves: “Hustling crowd”, “tired and beat”, “right smack dab” – phrases that could become dated, but never did because the sentiment was so kind. I would dance around the living room “helping” her and singing along to I Feel the Earth Move – even though I really didn’t know the lyrics at all, I knew the melody and I knew I loved it. That woman on the cover of Tapestry evoked a calm and peaceful soul. James Taylor brought her to the attention of the wider world when he asked her to open for him in 1971. I first heard the Shirelles’ version of Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow when I was working as a school teacher in Washington DC. It was almost as if Mother Earth herself was singing to us. My parents’ marriage was in pieces – my mother had thrown it against the kitchen wall in an effort to shatter the mould of her postwar, Catholic-American girl-self. Carole King’s “Tapestry” continues to weave its own spell 50 years after the landmark album was released on Feb. 10, 1971. I looked up the video to remind myself of it and had a good little ugly cry. In 1990 the duo was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and in 2002 Carole was honored with the prestigious Johnny Mercer Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame. More Coverage When my sisters and I were growing up, Tapestry was a key record in the house. Tapestry is as good a meeting point as you get between popular and some sort of underground feel. Many have tried to imitate Carole’s sound, and great artists like Aretha Franklin have interpreted her work because her songs are timeless, limitless and, in a way, defy genre. King, producer Lou Adler and Taylor in Los Angeles during sessions for Tapestry in 1970. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1995 Cassette release of "Tapestry Revisited: A Tribute To Carole King" on Discogs. A skilled craftswoman, Ms King wrought something durable with Tapestry that has not outworn its usefulness. I also got to see the Broadway show about her, which was wonderful, and really made me realise how special and rare it is to write one song that will carry on a life that is bigger and longer than any human could hope for. Tapestry’s success roots us to our musical history. James Taylor, Roberta Flack, Tori Amos, Joan Armatrading, Rufus Wainwright and more on the 70s masterpiece, Last modified on Fri 12 Feb 2021 09.44 GMT. The original Shirelles version of Will You Love Me Tomorrow, arguably the best song of the 60s, is so clearly a masterpiece that King’s own version could never compete with it. Our mum was from Philly on the east coast, so it was always in my mind that Carole was also a Jewish east-coast girl. To end the night, Carole herself came out to perform “Home Again”, “Jazzman”, and “Sweet Seasons”/”Hey Girl” with James Taylor; after all these years, she proved that she could still captivate an entire audience. They drank red wine and communed deep into the night over the ecstasies and sorrows of their unattached, sexually liberated, self-actualised lives. I think you could make a pretty good case that Carole King and Gerry Goffin were the best popular songwriters of the last half of the 20th century. It showed the way in which a woman can pursue her own career, have a family and achieve happiness. She’d write these amazing, emotive songs and sing them in an almost optimistic or carefree voice. And without exception, they all listened to the ladies of the canyon, that trinity of confessional singer-songwriters: Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon and Carole King. She wasn’t necessarily the greatest singer, but she has a unique style and attack. I’d been deep into her songs – Up on the Roof, Natural Woman, Crying in the Rain – for a decade before Danny Kortchmar introduced us in Los Angeles in 1970. Even in its saddest moments, Carole’s voice can lift my spirits and move mountains. Since writing her first number 1 hit “Will You Love Me Tomorrow” at the tender age of 17, Carole King has arguably become the most celebrated and iconic singer/songwriter of all time. Tapestry was a little confusing to me when I first heard it as a full album, maybe in my early 20s. When “something inside has died”, or we are “down and troubled” and turn to music for shelter and consolation, we will always find it in this album. Latest Tweets And we brought this out in one another, I believe. She was really living all that hippy stuff – vegetarianism, hippy skirts – and I think that’s why it resonated. I narrowed it down to the two Carole King songs and was given the choice of show choir or madrigals. In 2015 it opened on London’s West End, garnering 2 Olivier Awards. I’ll never forget watching her tribute at the Kennedy Center in 2015 on TV, when Aretha Franklin sang Natural Woman and she stood up from her seat of honour and sang along, arms in the air. I didn’t have to live in the city to understand how much it meant to have a place to call your own, to feel how hard life is after working all day and looking up at the stars and finding a smile in your heart. The Troubadour shows also inspired the Morgan Neville-directed feature-length documentary Troubadours: Carole King/James Taylor & The Rise Of The Singer-Songwriter, and premiered on PBS’ American Masters in 2011 shortly after being released on DVD. 1. I’d heard plenty of those songs on oldies radio growing up. It was released as a single and topped the charts in April, 1971. It was a brimful cup of intoxicating freedom, and it was the souring aftertaste of all that headiness. But, if it means anything, Carole King deserves to be thought of as its epitome. I got into the album as a teenager in California where I was longing for a bygone era that only existed in record covers: the Doors at the Whiskey-a-Go-Go or whatever. Everything she sings is deeply felt. The show can be watched on YouTube or the company website anytime after the show’s 7 p.m. Saturday debut. The record before it [1970’s Writer] hadn’t performed that well, so she had it in her head that this one had to be great. Explore Carole’s Career Through The Years, Follow Carole on Twitter »Like Carole on Facebook ». With Carole King, matters of personality and the adoration of the star are set aside. Tapestry is the ultimate in terms of doing what you want artistically and just surviving as a human being in the record business. She’s the nice motherly side of it. I’ve said it before, but Carole and I found we spoke the same language. It was so meaningful to sing in unison with my mom to a guttural, honest account performed by a stranger to whom I felt so inexplicably connected: a friend, a sister, a mother, and somebody’s daughter, a low voice and an attitude. When I was coming up with a concept for the album cover of our latest record, Always Tomorrow, I used the cover of Tapestry as a big reference point. Photograph: Gijsbert Hanekroot/Redferns MC Taylor, Hiss Golden Messenger. Listening to that album with my mom always made me feel really special because I could tell how much she loved it. It came out of her so strong, so fierce and fresh. I won’t qualify it by saying female, songwriter or any of that. To celebrate her music and 'Beautiful - The Carole King Musical' currently in London, we've put together a list of 19 popular songs you probably didn't know were hers. There was a clarity to the storytelling, whether the songs had us dancing with them or haunting us as we sat cross-legged on the worn Methodist rug. 1. Photograph: Michael Putland/Getty Images, 'It shook me to my core': 50 years of Carole King's Tapestry. I used to just sit and stare at it. It was realising the price of striking out alone was growing weary of the world and craving the same ties that had made us feel so bound-up. They can’t, because I don’t think the people who might attempt to do so have ever totally reckoned with the kind of magic she was working on that album. Carole King made this incredible transformation from Brill Building songwriter to performer, but she didn’t go crazy or self-destruct. Carole received the Kennedy Center Honors in 2015. Carole and Gerry delivered a Valentine that day, one the whole world opened year after year. She is first a working woman. The three songs on my list to audition with were: You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away by the Beatles and I Feel the Earth Move and Natural Woman by Carole King. How many hours have I spent sitting on the couch with my mom harmonising to that song? She made this amazing milestone in music without having to sacrifice her soul to do it. Blood, Sweat & Tears - Blood, Sweat & Tears 180g 45RPM 2LP Box Set $125.00. Instead, she sings it slowly and plaintively, with no flattering reverb, making the answer to the title, heartbreakingly, “Probably not”. Tapestry was one of the first records my mother and I bonded over. She’s been the recipient of a number of esteemed awards and honors, and remained active in the public’s eye with musical and literary work. On January 12, 2014, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical opened on Broadway. It’s witty and spicy. A songwriter I’d known all my life, without knowing her. I love Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow. None of us singer-songwriters were known for our voices, and we had to get past that. We all understand when she mourns constancy and asks: “Doesn’t anybody stay in one place any more?” We know how people shift, how they change, how they go away, and oftentimes leave us longing. Tapestry is exactly that: a sonic tapestry of some of the greatest songwriting and a masterclass in blending the roots of folk, soul, rock and blues while never feeling forced. Natalie Maria Cole (February 6, 1950 – December 31, 2015) was an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Easy enough to remember, haunting enough to want to remember, that is the mark of a great song – and great songwriter. The Home of Live Music. The earth was moving under my feet and the sky was tumbling down. It was a big change for Carole to leave New York for LA. Donny [Hathaway] and I loved the songs on Tapestry and worked out our arrangement of You’ve Got a Friend in a way that expressed how we felt about what it means to help each other through the best and the worst of times. It was a record my mom used to listen to a lot on the weekends when she could clean the house. The cover of Tapestry has the same welcoming atmosphere of the record. He started the Monterey Pop Festival that ended up launching the careers of Jimi Hendrix and The Who - on and on and on. I would have just turned 18 when Tapestry came out, when I was really being influenced by singers and songwriters. Her 12 songs have been ringing clear and true for 50 years. Carole King performing in London in 1970. Tapestry is a bundle of emotions, and she doesn’t sound like anybody else. My father told me about the album when I was about 18, and it shook me to the core. I had that experience the first time I heard Carole sing You’ve Got a Friend from the stage of the Troubadour: “Oh yeah, that one.” Incredible that this song didn’t always exist. I’m not wearing a bunch of makeup. It was a handful of songs and simple contradictions that were all truths.
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