Original Album Classics: Writer; Music; Rhymes & Reasons; Fantasy; Wrap Around Joy

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While fellow blues icon Albert King went to the trouble to be born in Indianola, Mississippi, BB adopted the place as his home town; he actually took his first breath 20 miles up the road, on the Berclair cotton plantation near Itta Bena, a city in Leflore County, Mississippi, on September 16, 1925. I would have just turned 18 when Tapestry came out, when I was really being influenced by singers and songwriters. Carole King was an inspiration. She was a woman, and she wrote amazing songs – so you’d learn by listening to It’s Too Late or whatever, over and over. She set the stage for other singer-songwriters who came along after her, because there wasn’t a market yet and the industry didn’t know what to do with us. Tom Waits’ third studio album, Small Change, had everybody wondering, “Does Tom Waits need a hug?” Waits had become a little too comfortable with life on the road and admitted later on that he had been drinking too much. The jazz influence present in his previous albums did not waiver with this album, but the lyrics became much more dark and depressing. “The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me)” is a disheartening, speech-slurred bar tune describing what seems to be wrong with the world but blaming it all on everything that isn’t the cause of the problem. Nothing seems to be going right for Waits in this album. If Waits’ first albums were the upbeat side of jazz, Small Change proved that he understood that it can also express heartbreak and pain. — Clint Alwahab

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Recording engineer Hank Cicalo, Carole Kingand record producer Lou Adlerin the control room of A&M Records Recording Studio during the recording of King's album 'Tapestry' in January 1971 in Los Angeles, Calif. JimMcCrary/Redferns When my sisters and I were growing up, Tapestry was a key record in the house. Our mum also loved James Taylor and Joni Mitchell, who played and sang on it, so it was on in the car a lot. Our mum was from Philly on the east coast, so it was always in my mind that Carole was also a Jewish east-coast girl. She’d write these amazing, emotive songs and sing them in an almost optimistic or carefree voice. Simple Things: "Top Albums/CDs - Volume 28, No. 1". RPM. 1977-10-01. Archived from the original (PHP) on 2014-01-06 . Retrieved 2014-01-01.

King has sold over 75 million records worldwide. [1] Billboard ranked her as the 73rd greatest artist of all time. [2] Her second album, Tapestry (1971), was the world's best-selling album by a female artist for a quarter-century, with global sales of 30 million. [3] [4] [5] According to the Recording Industry Association of America, King has sold 19.6 million records in the United States. [6] She is also recognized as the most successful female songwriter of the 20th century, having written or co-written 118 hits on the Billboard Hot 100. [7] Official Charts named King as the most successful female songwriter in the UK charts, penning 61 hits between 1952 and 2005 in the country. [7] Albums [ edit ] Studio albums [ edit ] List of studio albums, with selected chart positions and certifications Szymcyzk is not a musician himself. A whistle-stop tour through his early life and career finds him working as a sonar operator for the US Navy. Things get really interesting when he quits NYC’s Hit Factory studio and lands a job at ABC Records, taking a pay cut for the opportunity to switch from engineering to production, to ultimately work with his idol BB King.

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All songs written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King; lyrics for "Raspberry Jam" and "What Have You Got to Lose" by Toni Stern. I think you could make a pretty good case that Carole King and Gerry Goffin were the best popular songwriters of the last half of the 20th century. I love Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow. Everything she sings is deeply felt. Sharon Van EttenCarole King performing in London in 1970. Photograph: Gijsbert Hanekroot/Redferns MC Taylor, Hiss Golden Messenger

I never learned to talk very well without Lucille,” King said, referencing his iconic Gibson guitar. “But today I’m trying to say only God knows how I feel. I am so happy. Thank you.” Music: "Top Albums/CDs - Volume 16, No. 21_22". RPM. 1972-01-15. Archived from the original (PHP) on 2014-01-06 . Retrieved 2014-01-01. It’s in the old town, away from the neon and noise, where you can see the streets and buildings that have barely changed since BB busked on the corner of Church Street and Second Street. There’s a mural on the sidewalk, depicting his guitar ‘Lucille’, to mark the spot. On his second attempt, in 1948 (he’d followed his cousin Bukka White there two years previously, but returned home after 10 months), BB headed to Memphis, Tennessee, where ultimately he hook up with record label owners the Bihari brothers and began his gradual ascent to stardom. Carole King’s Tapestry album would become for a time, one of the biggest selling albums in popular music history. It was a record that contained new songs, but also presented fans with new versions of Carole King songs she had written in the 1960s for various artists. Carole King continued to release albums thought out the 1970s on a consistent basis. Her recorded output slowed down in the 1980s and 1990s. Her last album of new material, Love Makes the World Go Around,was released in 2001. Tapestry was a little confusing to me when I first heard it as a full album, maybe in my early 20s. I’d heard plenty of those songs on oldies radio growing up. But why this down-to-earth, subtle take on Natural Woman, on that song by James Taylor? And then that awakening: holy shit, Carole King wrote all those songs? A songwriter I’d known all my life, without knowing her.

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I also have to mention the cat on the cover. It may sound trivial, but that was the most “me” I’d ever seen on a record cover, and maybe opened up the possibility that a person could be humble and modest and human rather than superhuman, and be a triumphant musician. Bethany Cosentino, Best Coast Both “Nightingale,” and “Jazzman,” broke the U.S, Billboard Charts Top 10 list. But it was the jazz-inspired riffs of Carole King’s “Jazzman,” that defined one of Carole King’s most unique singles of her career. With legendary saxophonist Tom Scott blowing throughout the tune, Carole King went on to record one of her finest vocals ever. Carole’s songs made me want to sing her melodies and her harmonies and I felt closer to her while finding my path as a singer even at that young age. In my 30s, watching her musical on Broadway, I was overwhelmed with feelings of gratitude for her story. It showed the way in which a woman can pursue her own career, have a family and achieve happiness. That is a delicate balance that I strive for in my own life every day. Joan Armatrading None of us singer-songwriters were known for our voices, and we had to get past that. I had to get past the fact that I wasn’t going to sound like Linda Ronstadt or Joni Mitchell or Carole King, but from Carole I learned that you can accept your own voice and work within your limitations, which was liberating. Danielle Haim