Carnegie Hall Concert: June 18, 1971
is 17-song set recorded just as
Tapestry
was topping the charts and making
Carole King
a superstar. Featuring most of
and a few songs from
Writer
and
Music
this is, in a sense,
unplugged (although that terminology was not yet in use).
King
performs the first half-dozen songs alone at the piano; bassist
Charles Larkey
, guitarist
Danny "Kootch" Kortchmar
, and a string quartet back her (in varying combinations) throughout the rest of the program.
wasn't exactly a high-wattage affair to begin with, so these rearrangements aren't radical, but they're different enough from the studio versions to merit attention by serious
fans.
James Taylor
, then at the peak of his own popularity, joins
on vocals for a medley of some of her old
Brill Building
hits,
"Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow"
/
"Some Kind of Wonderful"
"Up on the Roof."
~ Richie Unterberger