MUSIC REVIEWS

CAROL KING'S LOVE MAKES THE WORLD

Carol King's CD Love Makes the World, released on September 25, 2001, is a wonderful CD that complements her other works such as Tapestry (1971), Thoroughbred (1975), Welcome Home (1978) City Streets (1989), and Color Your Dreams (1993). Love Makes the World is a 12 cut CD that features 11 new songs and a revisitation of Oh No Not My Baby, a song by King and Gerry Goffin from 1964.

Love Makes the World features the typical Carol King style of music that we have grown to love and respect from the artist. The piano sets the tone for a soft jazzy vocal and soft vocal harmony on several songs including 'I Wasn't Gonna Fall In Love', while songs like 'Monday Without You' remind us that Carol King can still rock. 'You Can Do Anything' and the title cut, 'Love Makes the World' are a few of the other great songs on this CD. Some of the musicians on this CD include Nathan
East on bass, Gary Burr on guitar, and Greg Wells on drums. This is great CD.

Bob Dylan's new release, Love and Theft, is the artist's first since his 1997 Grammy Award winning CD Time Out of Mind. Love and Theft was released, oddly enough, on September 11, 2001. There are several good songs on this CD including Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum, High Water, and my favorite, Mississippi. This CD includes twelve cuts and requires a
little more than one playing to be appreciated. It will never rate as high as Blood on the Tracks, Planet Waves, or Highway 61, but Dylan aficionados will grow accustomed to it.

Two other new releases in late 2001 include Enya's A Day Without Rain and David Bowie's Collected Instrumentals. Enya's CD includes her latest hit Only Time and nine other very good cuts. Enya fans need to pick up this CD. David Bowie's Collected Instrumentals 1977-1999 contains 16 pretty good instrumental tunes that would be of interest to rock and jazz fans. If you are a fan of this type of music, or of these two artists, check out these CDs.

Saying good-by to George...The Clarion Issue staff is deeply saddened by the death of former Beatle George Harrison. George, Paul, John, and Ringo helped shape the rock music world of the 1960s and paved the way for rock music as it developed in the 1970s and 1980s. My favorite Beatle albums were Revolver (1966), The White Album (1968), Sargent
Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967), and Abby Road (1969). The Beatles also made several movies including the animated Yellow Submarine in 1968. Harrison led the Beatles in many innovations as their lead guitarist and introduced the sitar into Beatle music. His Beatle songs included Taxman, Here Comes the Sun, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, and Something. When the Beatles split up in 1970, George Harrison developed his own style and recorded many hits including Dark Horse, My Sweet Lord, and Got My Mind Set On You.

Many people forget that it was George Harrison who began the all-star rock concerts for charities with his 'Concert for Bangladesh' in 1971 after a devastating flood and civil war had decimated the new county of Bangladesh that was once East Pakistan. Harrison, Ravi Shankar, Leon Russell, Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr, Bob Dylan, and others raised money by ticket sales, album sales, and movie revenues. This set the stage for other efforts such as Willie Nelson's 'Farm Aid,' 'The Concert for
AIDS,' and Paul McCartney's 'Concert for the Victims of 9/11,' recently held in New York City. The Concert For Bangladesh is available on CD at most of the on line music stores.

Good-by George; the music world and all of us will miss you.