Carole King performing in New York, 1976.)
I finally played my guitar a number of times in the past week! Downloading songs that I really like is helpful, and that I can sing along to. It is interesting that I am picking all women artist. The other day Carole King came to my head. She is an amazing singer songwriter and the most successful female songwriter in the latter half of the 20th century – (according to Wikipedia). With her own album Tapestry (again according to Wikipedia) she topped the charts for so many weeks that she held the position of #1 female artist topping the charts for 20 years. Thinking about her brings me back to my childhood. Her Tapestry album came out in 1971, and I was only 6, but I had three older sister, the oldest being 16 and 14. So Carole King (and the Beatles, Jimmy Hendrix, Sly and the Family Stones, Neil Young, CSN, Joni Mitchell …) were all a part of my life starting at a very young age and they are still some of my favourite.
I was thinking that I would try and master a song, maybe a Carole King song, and for my final blog post I would post a recording of me playing it. For those who aren’t familiar with Carole King, here she is performing one of her classics “Where you Lead”
While writing this post, I came across an article in the Guardian that talks about King coming out of semi-retirement to rewrite one of her songs to try and reach voters and direct them away from “the terrible direction America is going in” under the leader of her country (she does not like to speak his name). She is so awesome! So I will leave you with her rewritten song –
