Carole King wrote the songs. These artists made them confessions. The same words, the same chords, but a different ache in every voice ... Amy's cigarette-smoke vulnerability, Roberta's cathedral stillness, Chaka arriving like weather. Gladys wrapping a lyric in silk, Bonnie giving it gravel and grace. Donny and Michael finding the tenderness hiding inside the melody. Even Grand Funk plugging it in and shaking the walls. Carole handed everyone a mirror and they each saw something different looking back. Tribute is the wrong word. This is inheritance. Every version a conversation across time, artists talking to a song the way you talk to someone who understood you before you understood yourself. The earth keeps moving. The friends keep coming. The question gets asked again and again. The answers never run out.
covers · 8 tracks
covers · 8 tracks
Carole King is Flattered
Carole King wrote the songs. These artists made them confessions. The same words, the same chords, but a different ache in every voice ... Amy's cigarette-smoke vulnerability, Roberta's cathedral stillness, Chaka arriving like weather. Gladys wrapping a lyric in silk, Bonnie giving it gravel and grace. Donny and Michael finding the tenderness hiding inside the melody. Even Grand Funk plugging it in and shaking the walls. Carole handed everyone a mirror and they each saw something different looking back. Tribute is the wrong word. This is inheritance. Every version a conversation across time, artists talking to a song the way you talk to someone who understood you before you understood yourself. The earth keeps moving. The friends keep coming. The question gets asked again and again. The answers never run out.
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Amy Winehouse / Carole King / The Shirelles (1960) (2011)
Carole King's teenage question, asked by a woman who already knows the answer.
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Roberta Flack / Carole King / The Shirelles (1960) (1971)
Roberta slows down the teenage question until it becomes a woman's inventory of a relationship.
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1,414 artist portraits across 5 genres (Rock, Jazz, Soul, Blues, Folk).
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Carole King wrote the songs. These artists made them confessions. The same words, the same chords, but a different ache in every voice ... Amy's cigarette-smoke vulnerability, Roberta's cathedral stillness, Chaka arriving like weather. Gladys wrapping a lyric in silk, Bonnie giving it gravel and grace. Donny and Michael finding the tenderness hiding inside the melody. Even Grand Funk plugging it in and shaking the walls. Carole handed everyone a mirror and they each saw something different looking back. Tribute is the wrong word. This is inheritance. Every version a conversation across time, artists talking to a song the way you talk to someone who understood you before you understood yourself. The earth keeps moving. The friends keep coming. The question gets asked again and again. The answers never run out.
No algorithms. No trending sections. Just a song someone loved and the story behind it. Delivered Sunday morning.
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Free. No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.
Image Credits
1,414 artist portraits across 5 genres (Rock, Jazz, Soul, Blues, Folk).
1,363 sourced from Wikipedia (Creative Commons / Public Domain), 50 from
Deezer (promotional artwork).
