The follow-up to Tapestry was cut from a similar cloth – relaxed but intimate tone, versions of Goffin-King songs made famous by others a decade earlier, guest appearances from James Taylor – and was always going to live in the shadow of a predecessor that was still in the US Top 10 when Music was released. Its enduring reputation as a mildly disappointing sequel doesn’t do justice to the sheer quality of the songwriting: it’s hard to see how anybody could be underwhelmed by King’s reading of Some Kind of Wonderful, the old Goffin-King Drifters’ hit, or by It’s Going to Take Some Time (later covered in bittersweet style by the Carpenters) or indeed the expansive, jazz-inflected title track. Extra marks for the none-more-early-70s-singer-songwriter lyrics of Carry Your Load: “Thinkin’ alone on a Thursday morning of peace and love and war / I still don’t have any answers, but I don’t get high any more.”