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| CAROLE AND JAMES SAY "THANK YOU"Now that the "Troubadour Reunion" tour has come to an end, Carole and James want to extend their deeply heartfelt thanks to all 700,000 of you who came out to see them perform this year. Because of your generosity, the tour enjoyed sold out shows and made it possible to give liberally to charities nationwide and in your own backyards. You were the ones who blogged and shared with other social networking fans, your comments about the shows and the stunning reviews that the tour has received. You were the ones who requested-and heard-the songs you wanted played. There are not enough words to convey the gratitude for the outpouring of love and appreciation that Carole and James have felt from you.
We invite you to listen to their own words, by clicking here. Once again, THANK YOU!
To view many of the stunning photographs taken during the tour, please visit our Scrapbook page. To read some of the many outstanding reviews of the tour, please scroll down this page to the "Extra Extra Read All About It" news article. Top of Page |
| HELP SAVE AMERICA'S WILD HORSESUPDATE - IDAHO WILD HORSES FEATURED DURING THE PERFORMANCE OF "WAY OVER YONDER" IN THE TROUBADOUR REUNION TOUR!
For more information, please visit: Sun Valley Magazine.
URGENT ACTION ALERT!! YOUR VOICE IS URGENTLY NEEDED - PLEASE TAKE ACTION BEFORE AUGUST 3RD!
Click here to sign letter to STOP ALL SUMMER ROUNDUPS!
Click here to sign the petition to stop the roundup of days-old foals!
Grassroots efforts have already begun as peaceful protests are conducted throughout our country, in opposition the actions of the BLM and wild horse and burro roundups. So far, they include, Sun Valley, Idaho - San Francisco, California - Albany, New York - Denver, Colorado - Las Vegas, Nevada.
Also on the list are Boston, Massachussetts - Manhattan, NY - Reno and Sparks, Nevada! To see the upcoming events in your area, Click Here!
We encourage you to use your voice and participate!
In 1971, an unprecedented public outcry by Americans citizens moved Congress to unanimously pass the Wild Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act, granting federal protection to America's wild horses and burros as living symbols of the historic and pioneer spirit of the West that contribute to the diversity of life forms within the Nation and enrich the lives of the American people.
While most Americans have assumed that the wild horses and burros were protected, in fact, a recent change in the law opened the door to inhumane roundups and the possibility of thousands being sent to slaughter. Over 2 million wild horses roamed the lands in the 1800s and now, fewer than 25,000 remain on our public lands. There are now more wild horses in government holding pens than remain in the wild.
Therefore, once again, American citizens MUST speak out to stop these actions and urge our Senators to pass Senate bill S. 1579, the ROAM Act (Restore Our American Mustangs Act). The bill amends the Wild Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act by adding important new protections and provisions, such as the banning of helicopter round-ups and the reclaiming of land lost by America's wild horses over the past 30 years. The ROAM Act has already passed the House and will soon be on its way the Senate.
It is imperative that Americans stand united and urge our legislators to support S. 1579, the ROAM Act and standing united for OUR wild horses' and burros' future and preservation of OUR heritage and history! It is important to let your voice be heard!
Please call or write to your Senator (link below) NOW!
U.S. Senator Contact Info.
To sign the petition in support of S. 1579, The ROAM Act, click here.
For more detailed information regarding the history, the numbers and how you can help, please visit American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign. Top of Page |
| CAROLE KING & JAMES TAYLOR - LIVE AT THE TROUBADOUR
RECORDED LIVE AT LOS ANGELES' FAMED "TROUBADOUR" NIGHTCLUB SET IS ON THE STREETS NOW!Special 2-Disc CD/DVD Package, Released by Hear Music/Concord Music Group, Captures Legendary Singer-Songwriters' Historic 2007 Troubadour Reunion Performances in Dazzling HD Video and 5.1 Audio
LOS ANGELES, CA, – In November of 1970, James Taylor and Carole King first performed together at the Troubadour on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, California. Taylor had just released his debut album for the Beatles' newly-formed Apple Records and King was finding her way as a first-time solo performer even though by then she was a famous songwriter with a string of hits for other artists. When they returned to the club for a two-week co-headlining run in 1971, their lives were somewhat different. That summer, Taylor's "Fire and Rain" was topping the charts and King's landmark Tapestry was on its way to making her a music superstar. Thirty-six years later, in November 2007, James Taylor, Carole King and members of their renowned original band "The Section" (featuring guitarist Danny Kortchmar, bassist Leland Sklar and drummer Russell Kunkel) returned to the Troubadour for a three-night, six-show run to celebrate the venue's 50th anniversary. Those historic shows are documented in Live at the Troubadour, a special 2-disc CD/DVD available May 4th from Hear Music/Concord Music Group. This remarkable recording, culled from these unforgettable shows, features 15 songs and 75 minutes of pristine video and audio, including stunning performances of the pair's most beloved hits such as Carole King's "So Far Away," "It's Too Late," and "Will You Love Me Tomorrow?", as well as James Taylor's "Carolina in My Mind," "Sweet Baby James," and "Fire and Rain", to name just a few.
The return to the intimate Troubadour--the fertile ground that served as the unofficial home to a some of the era's defining musicians such as the Eagles, Elton John, Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt and Joni Mitchell--rekindled King's and Taylor's love for making music together. Variety enthused at the time, "Taylor and King reminded us about the intensity of the song, that the artistically-rich and commercially-viable are not mutually exclusive and how one tiny club continues to be a birthing room for some of this city's most memorable music." The experience was deeply felt by everyone--the musicians on stage, the fans in attendance, as well as the project's technical crew: audio producer Peter Asher (an instrumental figure throughout Taylor's career) and Emmy-winning video director, Martyn Atkins. Live at the Troubadour is captured in sterling 5.1 stereo and state-of-the-art high definition video.
Live at the Troubadour track listing:
1. Blossom (James Taylor)
2. So Far Away (Carole King)
3. Machine Gun Kelly (Danny Kortchmar)
4. Carolina in My Mind (James Taylor)
5. It’s Too Late (Carole King - Toni Stern)
6. Smackwater Jack (Gerry Goffin - Carole King)
7. Something in the Way She Moves (James Taylor)
8. Will You Love Me Tomorrow? (Gerry Goffin - Carole King)
9. Country Road (James Taylor)
10. Fire and Rain (James Taylor)
11. Sweet Baby James (James Taylor)
12. I Feel the Earth Move (Carole King)
13. You've Got a Friend (Carole King)
14. Up on the Roof (Gerry Goffin - Carole King)
15. You Can Close Your Eyes (James Taylor)
To order a copy of Live at the Troubadour, click here.
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| EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT!As the Carole King/James Taylor "Troubadour Reunion" world tour made its way around the globe, the rave reviews just kept coming in. There are posted here, as they came in.
North America
LA Times
LATimes.comPop&Hiss
Orange County Register
antiMUSIC.com
Billboard 7/16/2010
Colorado Gazette
LA Times
Denver Post
USA Today
St. Louis Today
Berkshire Living
Cleveland.com
Masslive.com
Berkshire Eagle
Huffington Post
Bob's Page of Carole King
TimesLeader.com
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Boston Herald
NY Times
NJ.com
Courant.com
Masslive.com
Philly.com
Washington Post
Tampa blog
Miami Herald
Charlotte Observer
ClevelandRockandRoll.com
BuzzbinMagazine.com
Toronto Sun
The Oakland Press - Detroit Show Review
Illinois Entertainer
Chicago Tribune
Tennessean
KansasCityStar.com
Arizona Central
Variety.com
OC Register
San Jose Mercury News
Williamette Week Blog
www.genestout.com
Seattle Times 5/10/2010
blog.seattleweekly.com
needle+thread blog
Huffington Post
Overseas
Undercover
Brisbane Times
Adelaide Independent Weekly
New Zealand Herald
Stuff.co.au
The Press
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| THE ESSENTIAL CAROLE KING - THE DOUBLE CD UNIQUELY PROFILES CAROLE KING’S CAREER as America’s BEST KNOWN SINGER and SONGWRITERFrom her earliest forays into music at the age of four, it was Carole King's destiny to pursue a career as a composer, musician and vocalist. A decade before the mid-'60s folk boom put the term "singer and songwriter" into American and British pop music vernacular, Carole was, in fact, exactly that – a singer and songwriter. As a fledgling songsmith still in her teens in the late 1950s, her sophisticated demo recordings startled music execs who, within five years, would fully appreciate the unerring Top 40 sensibility that Carole's demos possessed.
As THE ESSENTIAL CAROLE KING suggests, there is an aspect of her career for which she has never received the full measure of credit – her role in jump-starting the singer and songwriter movement at the beginning of the 1970s. As Kubernik writes, "There was Sam Cooke, Dylan, Brian Wilson, Lennon & McCartney, Neil Diamond, John Phillips, Smokey Robinson, and others, but no other female artist, up to that point, had so forged the writer, folkie, rock, R&B, singer, songwriter, performer, hitmaker, life style maker as Carole did on Tapestry."
In presenting a new persona for herself at the dawn of the decade, Tapestry unquestionably set the stage for Top 40 radio and television's commercial acceptance of the new popular singer/songwriter stylists. The genre that was set in motion by James Taylor, Carly Simon, Jackson Browne, Cat Stevens, Roberta Flack, Bill Withers, Don McLean and many other singer/songwriters at the start of the 1970s has reverberated throughout the '80s, '90s, and '00s and continues to have an effect on pop music today.
The duality of her musical career as a singer and songwriter is at the heart of THE ESSENTIAL CAROLE KING. With liner note essays written by Sirius/XM rock and roll legend Andrew Loog Oldham (founding manager and producer of the Rolling Stones) and by L.A.-based music journalist/historian Harvey Kubernik, THE ESSENTIAL CAROLE KING uniquely profiles the career of this beloved singer and songwriter. Compilation producers Lou Adler, Steve Berkowitz, and Rob Santos present an overview of her own recordings as an artist on Disc One/The Singer, while Disc Two/The Songwriter reveals a collection of her compositions (co-written with Gerry Goffin, among others) recorded throughout the '60s by pop's greatest names.
One would be hard-pressed to find another female American composer whose career compares to Carole King's. With a veritable life soundtrack of '60s standards penned by her, and her decades of recordings as a solo artist (on her own albums plus songs for films, television, Broadway shows, and more), Carole King is one of a kind. If industry credentials are the yardstick, she has them all – top-charted records, RIAA Gold, Platinum, Multi-Platinum, and Diamond Certifications, 4 Grammy Awards in a single year, Oscar recognition, induction into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame and the Songwriters Hall Of Fame, Lifetime Achievement awards (including the esteemed Grammy Trustees' Award), tribute albums, and performances at the Presidential Inaugural Galas for Presidents Clinton and Obama.
When Carole King accepted the prestigious Johnny Mercer Award from the National Academy of Popular Music/Songwriters Hall Of Fame in June 2002, it reaffirmed her position among the most important music figures of the last 100 years. In one of his earliest songs, "Little Road and a Stone to Roll," the late Daydream Believer singer/songwriter John Stewart put it best: "Ev'rybody needs a Carole King tune...!"
THE ESSENTIAL CAROLE KING
(Ode/Epic/Legacy 88697 68257 2)
DISC ONE/THE SINGER: AN OVERVIEW OF KING'S OWN RECORDINGS AS AN ARTIST
1. It Might As Well Rain Until September
2. Child Of Mine
3. I Feel The Earth
4. So Far Away
5. It’s Too Late
6. You’ve Got A Friend
7. Sweet Seasons
8. Been To Canaan
9. Corazón
10. Jazzman
11. Nightingale
12. Only Love Is Real
13. Medley w/James Taylor: Will You Love Tomorrow/Some Kind Of Wonderful/Up On The Roof
14. Really Rosie
15. Pierre
16. You Can Do Anything w/Babyface
17. The Reason w/Celine Dion
18. Now And Forever
DISC TWO/THE SONGWRITER: A COLLECTION OF KING'S COMPOSITIONS THROUGH THE 1960s RECORDED BY POP MUSIC'S MAJOR ARTISTS
1. Will You Love Me Tomorrow - The Shirelles
2. Take Good Care Of My Baby - Bobby Vee
3. Every Breath I Take - Gene Pitney
4. Crying In the Rain - Everly Brothers
5. The Loco-Motion - Little Eva
6. Up On the Roof - The Drifters
7. Chains - The Cookies
8. One Fine Day - The Chiffons
9. Oh No Not My Baby - Maxine Brown
10. Just Once In My Life – The Righteous Brothers
11. Pleasant Valley Sunday - The Monkees
12. (You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural Woman - Aretha Franklin
13. No Easy Way Down - Dusty Springfield
14. Wasn’t Born To Follow - The Byrds
15. Hey Girl - Billy Joel
THE ESSENTIAL CAROLE KING is available now at all physical and digital retail outlets through Ode/Epic/Legacy, a division of SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT.
To order THE ESSENTIAL CAROLE KING at Amazon.com, click here.
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| HELP PROTECT THE NORTHERN ROCKIES ECOSYSTEMIDAHO - In a world where a single vote can decide an election, your voice matters, and the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act (NREPA) needs your voice!
If you have friends or relatives living in one or more of the five NREPA states which include Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington and Wyoming, please forward an email to them to ask them to contact their U.S. Senators and U.S. Representative and urge them to vote for H.R. 980, the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act (NREPA).
Your voice will help overcome the cacophony of fear. You are one of the smart people who care enough to make the world a better place. Let your voice restore harmony by taking action to save the Northern Rockies!
Below are links for U.S. Senators and a link to write to your U.S House Representative. Please review their contact page carefully as some prefer phone calls, faxes or regular mail as opposed to email and vice versa depending upon the urgency of the matter.
Idaho: Senator Mike Crapo
Idaho :Senator Jim Risch
Montana: Senator Max Baucus
Montana: Senator Jon Tester
Oregon: Senator Ron Wyden
Oregon: Senator Jeff Merkley
Washington: Senator Maria Cantwell
Washington: Senator Patty Murray
Wyoming: Senator John Barrasso
Wyoming: Senator Michael Enzi
To write your U.S. House representative go to:
Write your Representative
The Northern Rockies ecosystem overlaps five states-Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington and Wyoming-but all Americans own the affected land, Many Americans don't know that their tax dollars are being spent to subsidize activities that are harmful to the land, water, and wildlife in the Northern Rockies ecosystem.
Once NREPA becomes law, we'll have some names to suggest of elected officials to have mountains named after them. But right now those mountains, water, and wildlife need your help. Thank you very much.
You can find out more about NREPA on the Alliance for the Wild Rockies website.
You can read the text of NREPA at the Library of Congress website. Top of Page |
| ROCKINGALE RECORDS RELEASES CAROLE KING'S 'WELCOME TO MY LIVING ROOM' DVDSET FEATURES NEARLY THIRTY PERFORMANCES FROM KING’S SOLD-OUT LIVING ROOM TOUR, INCLUDING TWENTY-ONE TOP FORTY HITS, SEVEN #1 SINGLES, AND ELEVEN SONGS NOT AVAILABLE ON HER BEST-SELLING 2005 LIVE CD
BONUS FOOTAGE OFFERS UNPRECEDENTED ACCESS TO ONE OF THE GREATEST SONGWRITERS IN HISTORY
Singing/songwriting icon and Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Carole King released a new live DVD, 'Welcome To My Living Room,' October 23rd on her own Rockingale Records label. Filmed in Southern California in 2005, 'Welcome' offers an intimate, unadorned glimpse into the "living room" of one of the greatest songwriters in history. The set features twenty-nine songs - nearly two hours of music in all - from King's sold-out 2005/06 Living Room World Tour, including an astonishing twenty-one Top 40 hits, seven #1 singles, and eleven songs that weren’t on her best-selling 2005 'Living Room Tour' live CD.
'Welcome' also boasts extensive bonus features. Fans will get an unprecedented look into King’s pre-tour rehearsals as she works out harmonies and arrangements for some of her biggest hits. The DVD also includes footage from the fan-favorite "Songwriting 101" portion of King's show. Every night, King and bandmates Gary Burr (guitar/vocals) and Rudy Guess (guitar/backing vocals) composed and performed an impromptu new song from the stage, completely unrehearsed. This DVD is the only document of those one-time-only performances, and it also features an interview with King discussing the inspiration for and execution of "Songwriting 101." Then there's the "Making of the Living Room Tour" featurette which includes additional interviews with King about how the tour was conceived and crafted, and some of her favorite memories from the road.
King's Living Room Tour was adored by fans and critics alike. When she played Radio City Music Hall on the tour in July '05, The NY Daily News proclaimed "King sounds as strong - and looks as good - as she did decades ago," and The Newark Star Ledger asserted that witnessing King perform was like "watching Picasso paint." And when she played Denver, The Rocky Mountain News raved "With just her piano and voice much of the time – and just two backing musicians at others – King put on a show that was a tour de force of everything good about her work. Charming and chatty, at times it felt like a rock-history class with the world's hippest professor, as she detailed how her songs came about...All in all, the show was everything a great show should be."
The DVD was mixed in stereo and 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround Sound. It features interactive menus and instant chapter access to songs.
CAROLE KING 'WELCOME TO MY LIVING ROOM' TRACK LISTING:
1. Song of Long Ago
2. Welcome to My Living Room
3. Beautiful
4. Where You Lead, I Will Follow
5. Say Goodbye Today
6. Now and Forever
7. Been to Canaan
8. Nobody Wants to be Lonely
9. Love's Been a Little Bit Hard on Me
10. Smackwater Jack
11. Medley (The Right Girl, Keep Your Hands Off My Baby, Every Breath I Take, I’m Into Something Good, Go Away Little Girl, Hey Girl, One Fine Day, Will You Love Me Tomorrow)
12. Loving You Forever
13. Up on the Roof
14. It's Too Late
15. (You Make Me Feel Like a) Natural Woman
16. Hard Rock Café
17. Chains
18. Pleasant Valley Sunday
19. I Feel the Earth Move
20. So Far Away
21. You've Got a Friend
22. Locomotion
To order 'Welcome To My Living Room' on Amazon.com, click here.
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