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‘It shook me to my core’: 50 years of Carole King’s Tapestry – The Guardian
James Taylor, Roberta Flack, Tori Amos, Joan Armatrading, Rufus Wainwright and more on the 70s masterpiece
James Taylor
The singer-songwriter genre was named around 1970, give or take, and was said to apply to me and, among others Joni Mitchell, Cat Stevens and Jackson Browne. Why that supposed movement didnt begin with Bob Dylan or even Woody Guthrie or Robert Johnson beats me maybe they were still folk. But, if it means anything, Carole King deserves to be thought of as its epitome. Id been deep into her songs Up on the Roof, Natural Woman, Crying in the Rain for a decade before Danny Kortchmar introduced…
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