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Title: How did this happen?
Review: Navarro backed up Carole King after she met them through Dan Fogelberg, but except for Hardy's flute playing, one wonders why she left stellar players like Danny Kotchmar, Leland Sklar, and Tom Scott for this group. Instrumentally, they are listenable, but certainly not polished. They never inhabit the music the way King did in previous Ode records or the prementioned session players. However, the main problem is the singing (Mark Hallman's ?), often off pitch, nasal, and strained. I usually avoid negative reviews; being a musician myself, bad days or misconceptions of how something should sound happen haunt us all. However, someone should have stopped this record before it hit the press. I can guess that the only reason it is here is for those of us Carole King fans who want to explore some tangents. This cd was expensive and certainly didn't warrant the effort or the money.
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