Writer

Carole King

Genre: Pop
Release Date: 1970-05-01
Explicitness: notExplicit
Country: USA
Track Count: 12

℗ Originally Released 1970 Ode Records

Tracks

	Title	Artist	Time
1	Spaceship Races	Carole King	3:06
2	No Easy Way Down	Carole King	4:33
3	Child of Mine	Carole King	4:02
4	Goin' Back	Carole King	3:16
5	To Love	Carole King	3:36
6	What Have You Got to Lose	Carole King	3:30
7	Eventually	Carole King	4:57
8	Raspberry Jam	Carole King	4:34
9	Can't You Be Real	Carole King	2:56
10	I Can't Hear You No More	Carole King	2:42
11	Sweet Sweetheart	Carole King	2:43
12	Up On the Roof	Carole King	3:36

Reviews

A must have!

5
By Wolfcub

I first bought "Tapestry" when it debuted and fell in love with Carole King´s voice and mood her music created for me. I was 15. Wanting more, I could not resist buying ¨Writer¨ when I found it in my neighborhood record store. I have many of Carole´s albums and they are all special to me, but there is something about Writer that makes it my favorite. I remember listening to ¨Child of Mine¨ at 16, at 34, video taping my son playing with toys as the song plays in the background. "Up On the Roof" evokes a feeling of peace when the day has been rough. "Eventually" moves me with the phrases "when assassins just happened to do the right people in" along with "and love was a slogan, coincidently" so capture the turmoil of the 1960's. Thanks Carole for writing the soundtrack of my youth.
An Overlooked Gem

5
By dbronx

As the lead to the iTunes review so clearly states, Carole King's first solo album is easily the most underrated recording of her long career. You can clearly hear the traces of her development to "Tapestry" a year later, and yet I think some of the songs on "Writer" are even better. The standout for me is "Eventually," which continues to have incredible social relevance 36 years after it was recorded. But that's not to say the other songs are any less worthy of being singled out. Interestingly, with James Taylor having made "Up On The Roof" a staple of his live shows over the years (and I'm a big James fan as well), I have to say that I like Carole's recording of the song much much more. If you've never had a chance to buy this on vinyl or CD, I highly recommend you download it now. Talk about value for the money...this has it in spades.