Carole King’s career would have been wondrous even if she had never made a solo recording. Such was the mark she and hubby Gerry Goffin made in the 1960s, writing songs like “Will You Love me Tomorrow,” “Up On the Roof,” “Take Good Care of My Baby,” “Pleasant Valley Sunday,” “One Fine Day,” “(You Make Me Feel) Like a Natural Woman and many others. But by 1968, their personal and professional relationship had run its course so Carole and her two daughters left New York City and moved to the artistically fertile ground of Laurel Canyon in Los Angeles. Not only was Laurel Canyon a haven for the counterculture of the 1960s, the scene there nurtured the likes of Joni Mitchell, Frank Zappa, Papa John Phillips, Jim Morrison, The Byrds, and many others. Carole King fit right in.
Despite having severe stage fright, King began her solo career and released…
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