KATE TAYLOR ~ Sister Kate ~ LP

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Kansi: Vg+ (Cut-out, kulumaa)

Levy: Ex 

Label:  Cotillion SD 9045, US 1971

BIISIT:
 Home Again     
 Ballad Of A Well Known Gun     
 Be That Way    
 Handbags And Gladrags     
 You Can Close Your Eyes      
 Look At Granny Run, Run   
 Where You Lead     
 White Lightning   
 Country Comfort      
 Lo And Behold / Jesus Is Just Alright    
 Do I Still Figure In Your Life     
 Sweet Honesty    

SOITTAJAT:
Kate Taylor, Abigale Haness — Vocals, clapping
John Bieland, Bernie Leadon, James Taylor — Guitar
Merry Clayton, Oma Drake, Gail Haness, Peter Asher, Linda Ronstadt, Donna Prater — Vocals, background vocals, background music
Sandra Crouch — Percussion, tambourine
John Hartford — Banjo
Carole King — Piano, vocals, background vocals, string arrangements, background music
Danny "Kootch" Kortchmar — Guitar, percussion, conga, background vocals
Russ Kunkel, Joel O'Brian — Drums
Charles Larkey, Leland Sklar — Bass
Andrew Love, Wayne Jackson, The Memphis Horns — Horn, horn arrangements
Ralph Schuckett — Organ, piano, accordion, keyboards
J.D. Souther — Guitar, vocals, clapping
John Tartaglia — Strings, string arrangements

Album Notes
First released in 1971, this is the debut album from Kate Taylor, sister to iconic folk-pop singer-songwriter James Taylor. This classic recording by the sibling of Livingston and James Taylor offers valuable insight for fans of Carole King's landmark album, Tapestry, but Sister Kate is also a great work in its own right.

Peter Asher of Peter & Gordon was the guiding hand behind James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt, and to have his vision of Carole King's "Where You Lead" and "Home Again" from Tapestry with the musicians who helped King paint her masterpiece is a major treat. (Lou Adler's perspective on these tunes was what helped reshape music in the '70s, and to have another successful producer issuing the same music at the exact moment in time is essential study for Musicology 101.)

"Where You Lead" has a totally different flavor from both King's classic album track and Barbara Streisand's hit. Vocally, Kate Taylor isn't Chi Coltrane or Jessi Colter, but she's very musical just the same. It's interesting that she would do versions of two songs Rod Stewart covered. Stewart got some serious airplay with "Handbags and Gladrags," but he didn't have Carole King, Linda Ronstadt, Merry Clayton, and most of the Tapestry players on his version of the Mike D'Abo tune -- Kate Taylor gets that honor.

She also does a fine rendition of the Elton John/Bernie Taupin track which Stewart got FM album airplay with, "Country Comforts," and takes it a step further by covering "Ballad of a Well Known Gun" from the John/Taupin catalog as well.

Beverly Martyn's "Sweet Honesty" plays like Donovan's "Season of the Witch," and it works well for this place in time, but the real knockout tunes here are, coincidentally, Taylor's rendition of Livingston Taylor's "Be That Way," and her takes on James Taylor's "Lo and Behold" and "You Can Close Your Eyes." These three go right out of the park, so you can draw your own conclusions as to how well-schooled she was on the music being made by her brothers.

The addition of "Jesus Is Just All Right" somewhat mars "Lo and Behold"; the two form a medley, with "Lo and Behold's chorus pressing up against the "Jesus Is Just All Right" melody, but once again, the choice of what would become a '70s standard for the Doobie Brothers two years later shows the intuitive nature of this project.

Mort Shuman and Jerry Ragavoy got attention the year before when Janis Joplin's Pearl contained her dynamic version of their "Get It While You Can." Kate Taylor is better suited to their "Look at Granny Run, Run," and she does a fine job with it here. This is the album that got away, and all serious fans of pop, '70s rock, and good music in general owe it to themselves to seek Sister Kate out. It's a very impressive work of art. ~ Joe Viglione

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