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.”
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James Taylor
The singer-songwriter genre was named around 1970, give or take, and was said to apply to me and, among others Joni Mitchell, Cat Stevens and Jackson Browne. Why that supposed movement didn’t begin with Bob Dylan or even Woody Guthrie or Robert Johnson beats me – maybe they were still “folk”. But, if it means anything, Carole King deserves to be thought of as its epitome. 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. She played piano on my Sweet Baby James album while working on the songs for her own Tapestry. Our collaboration, our extended musical conversation over the next three or four years was really something wonderful. I’ve said it before, but Carole and I found we spoke the same language. Not just that we were both musicians but as if we shared a common ear, a parallel musical/emotional path.
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