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ETV to Broadcast “Carole King-James Taylor: Live at the Troubadour”
For Immediate Release
May 12, 2010
Columbia, SC…It’s been 40 years since they first played together at the Troubadour on Santa Monica Boulevard, but on Monday, June 21 at 9 p.m., ETV showcases two musical legends — Carole King and James Taylor. The dynamic duo shares the stage once again at the famed music club in “Carole King-James Taylor: Live at the Troubadour.”
In November 1970, Taylor and King first performed together at the Troubadour in West Hollywood, California. Taylor had just released his debut album for the Beatles’ newly-formed Apple Records, and King was finding her way as a first-time solo performer, even though by then she was a famous songwriter with a string of hits for other artists. When they returned to the club for a two-week co-headlining run in 1971, their lives were somewhat different. That summer Taylor’s “Fire and Rain” was topping the charts and King’s landmark Tapestry was on its way to making her a music superstar.
Thirty-six years later, in November 2007, the pair and members of their renowned original band returned to the Troubadour for a three-night, six-show run to celebrate the venue’s 50th anniversary. Live at the Troubadour documents those historic and unforgettable shows for a concert that includes stunning performances of King’s “So Far Away,” “It’s Too Late,” and “Will You Love Me Tomorrow?” and Taylor’s “Carolina in My Mind,” “Sweet Baby James” and “Fire and Rain.”
The return to the intimate Troubadour -- the fertile ground that served as the unofficial home to such era-defining musicians as the Eagles, Elton John, Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt and Joni Mitchell -- rekindled King and Taylor’s love for making music together. Variety stated at the time, “Taylor and King reminded us about the intensity of the song, that the artistically-rich and commercially-viable are not mutually exclusive and how one tiny club continues to be a birthing room for some of this city’s most memorable music.”
South Carolina ETV is the state's public educational broadcasting network with 11 television and eight radio transmitters, and a multi-media educational system in more than 2,500 schools, colleges, businesses and government agencies. Using television, radio and the web, SCETV's mission is to enrich lives by educating children, informing and connecting citizens, celebrating our culture and environment and instilling the joy of learning.
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For more information, contact Dana McCullough at (803) 737-3212 or dmccullough@scetv.org.
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Carole King and James Taylor performing in Live at the Troubadour. Photo credit: Kevin Estrada
Musical legends Carole King and James Taylor. Photo credit: James O'Mara
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