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The sound of someone finding their way in the world : Carole King s 1971 album Tapestry
The sky was blue, the breeze was cool, the Hollywood Hills twinkled in the sun. And as she sped towards Laurel Canyon with the roof down, 26-year-old Carole King could feel life hurtling forward to met her at a headlong pace.
“I turned right onto Laurel Canyon and revelled in the rush of wind blowing through my hair,” the singer-songwriter would write of her first experiences of LA in her 2012 memoir, A Natural Woman. “Other drivers were cruising up and down the canyon without a specific destination. I was going to the West Coast office of Columbia Music.”
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.”