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List Price: $15.93 | | Label: Sony Legacy
Salesrank: 3194
Released: April 22, 2008 |
| Our Price: $13.48 |
| Used Price: $10.78 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Tapestry-Legacy Edition (2-CD) Track Listing:
1. I Feel The Earth Move
2. So Far Away
3. It's Too Late
4. Home Again
5. Beautiful
6. Way Over Yonder
7. You've Got A Friend
8. Where You Lead
9. Will You Love Me Tomorrow?
10. Smackwater Jack
11. Tapestry
12. (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman
Editorial Review:
Carole King is a legendary songwriter who has crafted a myriad of hit songs for other artists but by writing and performing her own material she charted new ground with Tapestry. Now you can experience Carole's vision in its original "unplugged" brilliance. This deluxe 2 CD Legacy Edition features previously unreleased live piano-voice renditions of Tapestry songs in the original album sequence. A runaway-train success, this landmark album stayed on the national charts for a mind-boggling six years and won King four Grammys®. "I Feel The Earth Move," "It's Too Late" and "So Far Away" were heard everywhere in the '70s on a string of newly-minted FM radio stations featuring adult-oriented rock.
"You'll hear suggested guitar and bass lines, and background vocal parts, because that's the way she plays the piano...that was the brilliance of her demos and that's the way I heard these songs for the first time." Lou Adler, producer
DISC TWO: Previously unreleased live piano-voice renditions of Tapestry songs in the original album sequence
Live material recorded in 1973 in Boston, Massachusetts; Columbia, Maryland; and Central Park, New York City, New York and in 1976 at the San Francisco Opera House, San Francisco, California.
Tapestry-Legacy Edition (2-CD) Reviews:
Feel the earth move 
2009-08-01 - As the search for vinyl turned from a romp to the local music store to a search in the antique mall. I realized it was time to switch to CD's. With limited space and no future for many old vinyl friends it was time to round them up and release them to the local used book store. I cried and could only hope they would find a home that would cherish them.
It did not take long before I realized I missed them. So now I spend my days waiting for them to be reincarnated. Some that return are so tinny in sound that I can not believe they were that way to begin with. Others are so mangled that the original pattern of tunes is lost for ever.
It may be the result of time but I found this album to be all I remember and then some. It is well worth the purchase.
"Tapestry" is the best representation of Carol King and her music. If you only buy one, this is it. And you will feel the earth move under your feet.
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Finely Woven
2009-03-05 - This landmark album from the 70's is one that my older sister owned and played endlessly, using seemingly to tap into an innermost emotional well that only teen-aged girls seem to possess. I just remember that I thought every single song was great and how personal "Tapestry" sounded to my young ears. Now, almost 40 years later, that weird jumble of teen hormones having long dissipated and my sister well into adulthood, I cam listen to Carole King with an experienced heart and mind, and it holds up as a classic from the era.
"Tapestry" was one of the first albums of the singer/songwriter era that held together as an entity, and now rings pure as a dozen songs that meld into a seamless whole. King had already honed her skills as an ace commercial songwriter with husband Gerry Goffin, and this was her coming out party. As such, the twelve songs on "Tapestry" run the gamut of the confessional "It's Too Late" to the committal "You've Got a Friend" to emancipation ("Natural Woman"). It's a testament to the staying power of "Tapestry" that half of this album became hits for Carole and others (especially James Taylor's classic version of "Friend"), and the others are almost instantly recognizable.
It was that identifiable quality that raised "Tapestry" and, by association, King as a solo artist. It also opened doors for the likes of Carly Simon, Joan Armatrading and Taylor. The second disc of this set includes 11 of the album's songs recorded on various tours (missing is "Where You Lead"), with just King alone at the piano. It makes this double set a keeper for those of us that have let "Tapestry" slip from our grasp over the years.
Classic 70's
2009-02-27 - Best car listening CD ever made; I wore out my tape, had to find new!
From the high school years 
2009-01-27 - I used to sit around and listen to this with my hippy pals as if it were philosophy. Now, nearly 40 years later, I must admit that I found a lot of extremely callow - it hadn't aged well, unlike many of my old favorites like Freewheelin Bob D or Rumors by Fleetwood M. The ideas - get up every morning with a smile on your face, you make me feel like... -are about as deep as hippy speak. Even her voice seems limited in range to me, without a certain depth that I expect from jazz or soul vocalists. While some of the extra tracks on this are interesting and indeed raw, it is still the same old stuff. On the positive side, I did like to tap into the emotions I was feeling then and remember intimately, but again this will not enter my pantheon of much replayed favorites. I admit, this has more to say about my taste, so I don't pretend it is objective.
I would recommend this to old fans so long as they don't expect to love it the way they did as teenagers. Alas, it was disillusioning to me to listen to it critically.
AWESOME
2009-01-25 - What a wonderful CD! The LIVE version is Carole King playing piano without all the other instrumentals you will hear on the studio version.
I hesitated initially because of the price, I have had Tapestry beginning with the album, 8-track, cassette tape and CD but it would be a mistake not to make the purchase. I have this 2 set cd on my ZEN and I LOVE it!!!
