A Nice Pair: Carole King

It’s Sunday and we’re back with A Nice Pair – our weekly book and vinyl series. Today we’re pairing the book Girls Like Us by Sheila Weller with Carole King’s album Tapestry.

Girls Like Us is a combined biography of Carole King, Joni Mitchell and Carly Simon. Together they represent a huge collective of American girls who came of age in the sixties. These are their stories and the author shares how these women broke tradition and shared their experience at a unique point in time through their music.

Originally released in 1971 and one of the best-selling albums of all time, Tapestry is Carole King’s second studio album. It won four Grammy Awards in 1972, including Album of the Year, Song of the Year and Record of the Year. It includes hits such as I Feel the Earth Move and You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman.