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Carole King - Her Greatest Hits (Songs of Long Ago) (1975)

Track listing:
  1. Jazzman 3:39
  2. So Far Away 3:52
  3. Sweet Seasons 3:10
  4. Brother, Brother 2:54
  5. Only Love Is Real 3:27
  6. I Feel The Earth Move 2:55
  7. It's Too Late 3:50
  8. Nightingale 3:33
  9. Been To Canaan 3:34
  10. Smackwater Jack 3:37
  11. Corazon 3:52
  12. Believe In Humanity 3:17
  13. Eventually 4:46
  14. (You Make Me Feel Like) a Natu 3:43

Notes

This album was always sort of a joke among 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 a few years ago, 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 sufficiently. On the other hand, the 1999 remastering does improve the listening pleasure inherent in what is here — the material off of Tapestry, Music, Rhymes & Reasons and others is now very robust, with vivid instrumentation and a close, rich profile of King's voice. The selection of King's work is still only an inch deep, but it's a more rewarding inch.