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Article by Dave Read.
For the July 4, 2010 performance of the James Taylor and Carole King Troubador Reunion 2010 World Tour, we meandered among the audience on the lawn and alongside the Shed for this video and these photos. This was the middle of three consecutive days when audiences of 18,500 packed into the Koussevitsky Music Shed and sprawled accross the vast Tanglewood Lawn.
July 3, 2010 report by Dave Conlin Read.
The three day Tanglewood segment of the Carole King & James Taylor Troubador Reunion 2010 World Tour got underway Saturday July 3, a quintessential sunny summer day that got all hot, bothering nobody, and then cooled nicely after dusk, easing the lawnsters’ transition from the gnosh to the canoodle.
This reunion includes the 3 sidemen from the Troubador, the Hollywood club where King and Taylor first performed together: guitarist Danny Kortchmar, the bassist Leland Sklar and Russ Kunkel on drums. Connecticut native Kortchmar and Taylor met on Martha’s Vineyard in the mid-60s, a friendship that led Taylor to London where the Beatles signed him in 1969 and then to L.A. in 1971.
With King and Taylor taking turns on stage recalling the moments when they first heard each other’s songs, one almost could sense the firing of billions of synapses among the audience of 18,500, as it embarked on a million mile trip down memory lane. Ms. King wondered aloud whether “this is what Koussevitsky had in mind?”
Maybe not exactly; Koussevitsky being all about the learning, and this show being all about the remembering. But we can imagine the Maestro being mollified by this first-class show, the principals all having earned post-graduate honors from the University of the Sixties.
James Taylor and Carole King Troubador Reunion 2010 World Tour at Tanglewood – July 3, 2010 Set List
You may be interested to know that it was 2 years ago that Ms. King was a surprise guest at Mr. Taylor’s 60th birthday party in the Koussevitsky Music Shed.