Title: the first really disappointing album in her career
Product review: I'm a big Carole King fan. I bought this album when it was released. Wrap Around Joy, the album before this, was the weakest in her catalog at that point, but it did have Nightingale and Jazzman, to excellent cuts, and was mostly OK. With Thoroughbred, she really let me down. Only Love Is Real is a pretty good song, but there's nothing else on here that I can really recommend. Writer, Music, Rhymes and Reasons, and Fantasy are all excellent, underappreciated albums that you should check out before this one. And don't miss Now That Everything's Been Said by The City, the group she was in briefly before Writer. It's very good, too. If you get Her Greatest Hits, which contains Only Love Is Real, you can skip this one entirely.
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