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Tapestry: Carole King

Both these songs sort of fit my mood. The two of them came into my head easily as they toured together. Both songs are taken from early albums.  That’s always the way my ear remembers them the best.

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  2. sblake's avatar sblake Says:

    February 1, 2011 at 6:29 pm

    One of my most favourite songs of all time, and the one that will follow me always

    Lou Adler, who owned King’s record company Ode Records, produced the Tapestry album, taking care not to overproduce it. In a 1972 recorded conversation with Adler, Carole King said of this song: “It is typical of the magic that seems to surround that album, a magic for which I feel no personal responsibility, but just sort of happened, that I had started a needlepoint tapestry a few months before we did the album, and I happened to write a song called ‘Tapestry,’ not even connecting the two up in my mind. I was just thinking about some other kind of tapestry, the kind that hangs and is all woven, or something, and I wrote that song. And, you being the sharp fellow you are, (giggles), put the two together and came up with an excellent title, a whole concept for the album.”

    coda:The photograph on the album sleeve featuring Carole King seated on a window sill was taken at her California home. She recalled to The Daily Telegraph April 22, 2009: “This really was my living room in Laurel Canyon. These were my old Indian print curtains and my cat, Telemachus.”

    • katry's avatar katry Says:

      February 2, 2011 at 11:38 am

      sblake,
      I wore out that album then the cassette. I know all the words to each song. I found it a remarkable album where no song disappointed.

      By the start of this song I figured a real tapestry played a part in the lyrics.

      Of all the choices on that album, this was the one I wanted to post. I listened to some of the other songs but kept coming back to this.

  3. buzz's avatar buzz Says:

    February 3, 2011 at 4:41 pm

    Love this song.


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