Tapestry (2016 Remaster) Carole King

• 1 I Feel the Earth Move 02:58
• 2 So Far Away 03:55
• 3 It's Too Late 03:53
• 4 Home Again 02:29
• 5 Beautiful 03:08
• 6 Way over Yonder 04:44
• 7 You've Got a Friend 05:09
• 8 Where You Lead 03:20
• 9 Will You Love Me Tomorrow? 04:12
• 10 Smackwater Jack 03:38
• 11 Tapestry 03:14
• 12 (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman 03:49
• Total Runtime 44:29

Info for Tapestry (2016 Remaster)

Her now-legendary album Tapestry is a HighRes „must-have“ for any '70s rock era collector. 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.

'...Carole King's second album, TAPESTRY, has fulfilled the promise of her first album and confirmed the fact that she is one of the most creative figures in all of pop music...' (Rolling Stone)

„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, AMG)

Carole King, piano, keyboards, vocals, background vocals
Additional musicians:
Curtis Amy, flute, baritone, soprano, and tenor saxophone; string quartet
David Campbell, cello, viola
Terry King, cello, tenor saxophone, string quartet
Danny 'Kootch' Kortchmar, acoustic guitar, conga, electric guitar, vocals
James Taylor, acoustic guitar, backing vocals
Ralph Schuckett, electric piano
Barry Socher, violin, tenor saxophone, viola, string quartet
Perry Steinberg, bass, violin, tenor saxophone, string bass
Charles 'Charlie' Larkey, bass, string bass, string quartet
Russ Kunkel, drums
Steve Barzyk, drums
Joel O'Brien, drums
Joni Mitchell, background vocals
Julia Tillman, background vocals
Merry Clayton, background vocals

Recorded January 1971 in Studio B, A&M Recording Studios
Engineered by Hank Cicalo
Produced by Lou Adler

Digitally remastered

Carole King
Pop music as we know it would be far different without the many lasting contributions of Carole King, who is more than a half century into her singular career as a songwriter, performer, and author. Indeed, this universally renowned and beloved figure has rarely been more active than during the last five years.

Carole King and James TaylorKing’s late-career whirlwind began in November 2007, when she and longtime friend and sometime musical partner James Taylor returned to the Troubadour—the famed West Hollywood venue that had nurtured them as gifted young artists and soon-to-be critical and commercial sensations—for a three-night, six-show run to celebrate the venue’s 50th anniversary. Those historic performances were documented in the Grammy-nominated, RIAA gold-certified Live at the Troubadour (Hear Music/Concord Music Group), featuring 15 songs and 75 minutes of video and audio, including intimate renditions of the pair’s most beloved hits. The CD+DVD was released in May 2010.

This memorable event was the inspiration for the pair’s 60-concert “Troubadour Reunion” world tour of 2010, which included three sold-out concerts at the Hollywood Bowl and another trio of sellouts at Madison Square Garden. During the tour, The Philadelphia Inquirer marveled that “King and Taylor managed to present an arena-size show that retained their music’s innate craftsmanship, intimacy, and soul while adding vigor, muscle, and showmanship.”

The Troubadour shows also inspired the Morgan Neville-directed feature-length documentary Troubadours: Carole King / James Taylor & The Rise of the Singer-Songwriter, which made its TV premiere in March 2011 on PBS’ American Masters, shortly after being released on DVD by Hear Music/Concord Music Group. “When we sprang out of the box,” King notes early in the film, “there was just all this generational turbulence, cultural turbulence, and there was a hunger for the intimacy, the personal thing that we did.”

King’s first-ever holiday album, A Holiday Carole, followed in November 2011. Produced by her daughter Louise Goffin, the album’s 12 songs artfully blended the sacred and the secular with an eclectic mix of standards and newly-written material, and found King ringing in the season everywhere from The Today Show and Late Night With Jimmy Fallon to the Christmas at Rockefeller Center tree lighting.

The crowning glory of King’s last half decade was the April 2012 release of her memoir, A Natural Woman—which prompted Vanity Fair to say, “America is having a Carole King moment.” USA Today described the book as “candid [and] endearingly chatty… [with] more humor and joy than pathos,” while the U.K.’s Independent hailed it as “intelligent, honest, self-effacing, well-written.” In the pages of A Natural Woman, which King wrote completely on her own, she shares her incredible story from her beginnings in Brooklyn to her groundbreaking achievements as a songwriter, as well as her first major performances with Taylor and her long years of environmental and political activism. On publication, King’s memoir instantly cracked the top 10 of The New York Times best-sellers list.

As a companion to Carole’s life story, The Legendary Demos was released by Hear Music/Concord Records. A previously unreleased collection of 13 recordings featuring some of her most celebrated songs, including “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman,” “It’s Too Late,” and “You’ve Got a Friend,” the albumtraces King’s journey from her days as a staff writer at Don Kirschner’s Aldon Music in the early ’60s—where she crafted hit after hit for other artists—to the dawn of her own triumphant solo career in the 1970s. Visit: http://www.caroleking.com

This album contains no booklet.