This album was always sort of a joke among Carole King's serious fans, containing 12 songs drawn from six albums, and liner notes that fail even to acknowledge the existence of Writer, her one pre-Tapestry solo LP. A Natural Woman supplanted it later, and the addition of two live cuts, "Eventually" and "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" from the Carnegie Hall concert on the 1999 reissue (Ode/Epic/Legacy 65846), doesn't extended the range or depth of the selection suffic...   [ read more ]

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Goin' Back assembles ten favorite Carole King performances, some made famous on Tapestry ("So Far Away," "Home Again") and some popularized by other acts ("Up on the Roof," the title track); not really a greatest-hits compilation per se, it instead offers a nice mix of blockbusters and lesser-known gems, and is one budget-line collection that doesn't cheapen the integrity of the artist in question. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide

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Carole King had already written an enormous amount of pop classics by the time she began her solo career in earnest in the late '60s. With her second album, Tapestry, King became one of the most popular and artistically successful singer-songwriters of the early '70s. King never matched the consistent brilliance of Tapestry, yet managed to record many fine songs during the rest of the decade. A Natural Woman collects all of her finest moments over the course of two discs. Tapestry is i...   [ read more ]

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