Cheap Writer (Music) (Carole King) Price
CHEAP-PRICE.NET ’s Cheap Price
$9.98
Here at Cheap-price.net we have Writer at a terrific price. The real-time price may actually be cheaper — click “Buy Now” above to check the live price at Amazon.com.
| ARTIST: | Carole King |
| CATEGORY: | Music |
| MANUFACTURER: | Sony |
| MEDIA: | Audio CD |
| TRACKS: | Spaceship Races, No Easy Way Down, Child of Mine, Goin' Back, To Love, What Have You Got to Lose, Eventually, Raspberry Jam, Can't You Be Real, I Can't Hear You No More, Sweet Sweetheart, Up on the Roof |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 074643494427 |
Related Products
Customer Reviews of Writer
WHY is this album underrated? This is a fine album, my friend, and anybody who knows music would agree.
This is Carole King's first bona fide solo LP, released on Ode records in 1970. Featured are her versions of some songs covered by other artists, like "No Easy Way Down" (Covered by Barbra Streisand on her excellent STONEY END album) and "Up on The Roof", a classic 60s song by The Drifters.
All of the songs have something to offer: "Child of Mine" and "What Have You Got to Lose" have sweet melodies. "Raspberry Jam" has a neat tempo and psychedelic feel to it, it's a personal favorite of this writer. "Spaceship Races" is a good rockin' start to the album, and "Up on the Roof" is a nice, mellow end.
Of course, King would hit it big the following year with TAPESTRY, but this is pretty darn good as well. In fact, both albums compliment each other quite nicely. This has more of an "electric" tone, while TAPESTRY is a little more sparse.
So check this album out, especially "when this old world starts getting you down...."
The false start to Carole King's solo music career
I keep forgetting that this was Carole King's first album, mainly because I am rather enamored with the idea that "Tapestry" was the musical equivalent of Athena come out fully formed from the head of Zeus. Of course, King had been one of the most successful songwriters in the business for over a decade, in partnership with her eventual husband Gerry Goffin. Their songs were recorded by everybody from the Beatles, the Shirelles and the Monkees to Aretha Franklin and Little Eva (the couple's babysitter). In 1970, after her marriage ended, she was encouraged by close friend James Taylor to make another attempt at a solo career with this album, "Writer." The result ends up being a false start, with King still searching for the style that would make "Tapestry" one of the most successful albums in the history of the known universe. "Writer" offers up pop songs ("No Easy Way Down"), rock songs ("I Can't Hear You No More"), country songs ("To Love"), political songs ("Eventually"), and songs that defy categorization ("Raspberry Jam"). The two stand out tracks on the album are her remake of "Up on the Roof" and "Goin' Back," which, not surprisingly, could have been right at home on "Tapestry." My hypothesis is that the difference between the two albums was that virtually all of the songs on "Writer" and Goffin-King compositions while "Tapestry" are solo compositions, albeit with a couple of superb covers of Goffin-King songs with "Will You Love Me Tomorrow?" and "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman." Ultimately, "Writer" ends up being more of historical interest, representing King's evolving effort to find herself as a performer. Think of this album as the cocoon that held the "Tapestry" butterfly.
Like bumping into an old friend
I borrowed this on 8 track in the 70s and I havent heard it since then. I heared "Spaceship Races" on XM radio and woah, that took me back and I had to search out for the cd. I had forgotten how good this album was.When I First heard it then I thought it was way better than"Tapestry"Carol's most commercial album.Yes hearing this cd is like bumping into an old friend and getting reaquainted all over again!!