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Artist: Carole KingEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1991-03-01
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Brother, Brother
- It's Going To Take Some Time
- Sweet Seasons
- Some Kind Of Wonderful
- Surely
- Carry Your Load
- Music
- Song Of Long Ago
- Brighter
- Growing Away From Me
- Too Much Rain
- Back To California
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Free Music Review: Good music, too
Hit: 4 Stars
If you liked Tapestry, I can't see any reason for you not liking this, either. I mean, come on, they're more or less the same albums, even though this most certainly was not a smash hit on the level of that one. But really, what do I have to complain about? I love Tapestry, and while this isn't in the same league as it, it's still a respectable album full of melodic, mellow keyboard-heavy pop, occasionally with a horn section, as on "Sweet Seasons" and the listenable filler "Carry Your Load". "Brother, Brother" and "It's Gonna Take Some Time" efficiently recast the Tapestry sound, and though they're clear rip-offs they're great ones; her voice, clear and lovely, is fantastic on the remake of "Some Kind of Wonderful", originally a hit for the Drifters, though here it's remade as a pleasant folk-pop song with prominent acoustic guitar and piano, and just a little touch of the pedal steel. Her piano playing was never perfect, but it's effective on the swaying ballad "Surely". She only lifts the tempo on the gospel-ish "Brighter", which is a great song, and one of the only times she really breaks from the formula. If it wasn't a hit (and with the allmusic guide temporarily dead I've got no way of finding out), it should've been. Another time is the agreeable country-folk track "Growing Away from Me". The third formula-breaking, "Back to California", has the same basic thrust as Joni Mitchell's "California" (released during the same year), and it's the closest thing to unbridled fun you'll ever find in King's catalog. A few tracks are lesser - I already mentioned "Carry Your Load", and I don't really like the title track, which sounds like a song from a bad musical. "Song of Long Ago" gets spoiled by poor male backup vocals, and even if you take those out it's still a generic song. If you gotta rip yourself off, you might as well do so in style, and that's exactly what Carole does here. Oh, via the amazing power of Wikipedia I found out what the big hit here was after all: "Sweet Seasons", which went to #2.
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