Yet however smartly it evoked the sounds of an earlier era, Back To Black could never have been mistaken for anything but contemporary - or anyone but Winehouse.
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Working closely with producers Mark Ronson and Salaam Remi, plus a then-little-known Brooklyn soul ensemble called the Dap-Kings, the young, beehived-and-tattooed London singer pivoted from jazz to the velvet musical vocabulary of '60s girl groups and Motown. Arguably, that trend's catalyst was Amy Winehouse's earth-shaking final album. The late '00s saw an explosive, cross-genre revival of retro-sounding soul music that continues to shape the pop landscape to this day. 1 for The Shirelles in 1961, is transformed from a girl's yearning question into the bittersweet doubts of a woman wise enough to know that even true love doesn't always last "til the night meets the morning sun." -Jill Sternheimer (Lincoln Center) The first major writing credit for the then-teenaged King and lyricist husband Gerry Goffin, which hit No. King's evolution as both an artist and woman are perhaps most evident in the grown-up version of "Will You Love Me Tomorrow?" that appears on Tapestry. With her unadorned piano wrapped in plainspoken lyrics about the pulls of kinship and self-actualization, it's no wonder the record stands the test of time as not only a bedrock in the singer-songwriter genre but also as the soundtrack of suburban feminism of the early 1970's. From "I Feel the Earth Move" to "You've Got a Friend," the track list is a veritable master class in pop standards with King, one of America's most dependable hitmakers, flexing in a new genre. Considered her crowning achievement by critics, record sales of over 25 million confirmed that the public agreed. Here, she fully claims the spotlight, not only as a top-notch composer, but as a deeply soulful lyricist and singer. With Tapestry, Carole King cemented her place as one of the key architects of 20th-century popular music.