Carole King - Tapestry

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2015

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

Bill and Brian have finally reached the end of Massive November, and we close it out with the classic Tapestry (1971, Ode) by legendary songwriter Carol King. Having written many hits for artists like the Shirelles, the Monkees, and Aretha Franklin throughout the '60s, King struck out as a performer herself in the early '70s. With her second album as a performer, she found inspiration after moving to Laurel Canyon and coming under the influence of singer songwriters like James Taylor and Joni Mitchell. Massive hits followed. Brian and Bill discuss a specific and special memory about listening to this album in Brian's life, a fire that consumed part of Bill's house in his teenage years, the ubiquity and effect legacy acts have on the radio, Danny Kortchmar, the utility of sadness within happiness, James Taylor being a badass, what "Tapestry" would sound like as performed by Iron Maiden, and as always a track by track review!

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0:00.0	I'm wanting you the way I do.
0:12.0	I only want to be with you.
0:16.0	And I would go to the ends of the earth coast, darling, to me that's what you're worth.
0:26.6	Where you leave, I will follow anywhere that you tell me to.
0:35.6	If you need, you need me to be with you I will follow where you leave
0:43.8	Hello and welcome to the great albums podcast I'm Bill and I'm Brian and this week we are going to be talking about Carol King's 1971 landmark album Tapestry.
0:58.8	Yes, yes.
1:00.6	Massive album, November kind of comes, I guess this is the last one, right?
1:05.7	It's the last one.
1:06.5	Led Zeppelin, Michael Jackson, Nirvana, Fleetwood Mac, and now finally, Carol King kind of takes us
1:14.6	home. Yeah, because next week's going to be December, and we're going to be doing a not-so
1:21.5	massive album. Yeah. And then we're going to have a few, we're going to have a Christmas.
1:27.5	Yeah, we're going to have a Christmas episode, and we're going to have a few, we're going to have a Christmas. A bit of a popery.
1:28.1	Yeah, we're going to have a Christmas episode,
1:29.8	and we're going to have a kind of year-end wrap-up after that.
1:34.2	Yes.
1:34.7	And then we're going to take a couple weeks off, actually.
1:37.6	Are we?
1:38.2	For the holidays.
1:39.0	I think it's one week.
1:40.7	It's going to be the week after Christmas or of Christmas. There will not be an episode.
1:46.6	But we will be back on January 4th.
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