Tapestry by Carole King is my all time favourite album and I have it both in CD and LP. Yesterday, while browsing through the 2nd hand CDs in the Cash Converter store in Toa Payoh, I came across Tapestry Revisited - A Tribute to Carole King. At a fraction of what it would cost new, I thought it's worth giving it a try eventhough I am not a fan of tribute album.
The album feature various artists covering the 12 songs in the original Tapestry and in the same order. I listened to it briefly last night as it was quite late by the time I reached home, and the one track that really strike a chord is So Far Away covered by Rod Stewart. It could be because Rod Stewart voice has the same sort of natural untouched honest to goodness rawness as Carole King's, the rendition was good enough to stand on it's own without the neat to reference the original.
The song engineering in this album will, in my opinion, please most audiophiles. However, that aside, the songs were a bit of hit and miss as the performers tried to spruce up the arrangements to avoid sounding too "Carole King-like" and thus may not appeal to fans of Tapestry especially since some of these songs are like anthems to us.
Overall, a good album to introduce the newer listeners to Carole King's magic and for fans of the original, a catalyst to make us dust off the original Tapestry and relive the magic once again.
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Stick "Tapestry" into your iPod, find a streetside cafe in Les Gobelins, the old tapestry district in Gay Pah-ree, order an espresso, watch the world go by, and crank up Carole!
ReplyDeleteAlready in ipod ... for that bistro experience I highly recommend Miles Davis "Some Kind of Blue"!
ReplyDeleteCarole and Miles for the streetside cafe scene. For a bistro like La Coupole or Vaudeville, you have to stick with the likes of Edith Piaf and Jacques Brel cranked right up!
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