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She was on her own, and starting a new chapter for herself not only as an artist, but as a person. By 1968 after divorcing husband and songwriting partner Gerry Goffin, King moved from the East Coast to Los Angeles. The circumstances around which the Tapestry album was created certainly informed its tone. It adds a level of musical sophistication too, with jazz-inflected guitar and soprano sax adding additional voices to King’s resigned lead vocal and lush piano lines.īut very importantly, it’s also a key song that comes from a woman’s point of view during a time when certain social changes were only just beginning to make their way into the broader cultural conversation. “It’s Too Late” reflects a more mature perspective on the end of a relationship compared to many of the break-up songs she’d written in the previous decade. By then, she’d evolved considerably as a writer and performer. It’s “It’s Too Late”, a smash single coupled with another song, “I Feel The Earth Move”, as a double A-side, and featured on her classic 1971 record Tapestry. The song was co-written with lyricist Toni Stern, who penned the words after a break-up with a mutual friend of King’s, fellow singer-songwriter James Taylor.Ĭarole King herself had written for many other artists from Bobby Vee, to The Chiffons, to The Monkees, a role that took up quite a bit of her time from the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s after only a few solo singles under her own name by the beginning of that decade.
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Listen to this track by supremely gifted American pop song artisan and singer-songwriter in her own right Carole King.