Carole King & James Taylor: Just Call Out My Name

I might be biased but these people are my age and still sound like they did 50 years ago. This is what music should sound like. In the 70s these were at the top of the charts. There is no aging of the music or the songs. May they live forever. Bravo.

The show is mainly a massive, warm comfort blanket, full of love, friendship & great songs. Taylor & King are true legends of popular music -as well as being thoroughly decent people - & it is great that they are still with us & were able at the time of the 2010 concert footage to put on a superb show.

The band was awesome too. Leland Sklar was an unexpected bonus.

No expert in autotune, but it becomes a bit obvious on King's voice midway through the show, mainly on her sustained notes. No obvious stepping to my ears, just a nasty metallic quality, betraying the presence of digital manipulation. Once you notice it you can't unhear it & there is a lesser hint of it in Taylor's vocals. I suspect it wasn't musically necessary - no real sense that King was struggling to hit the notes - so I'd put it down to poor judgement on the part of the musical director.

If you enjoyed them then, you'll enjoy them now. It's amazing how well they continue to sing, though maybe not 100% of who they were, but whom of us is. Enjoy watching the other musicians and singers too.

When I was watching this, I suspected that the sound had been doctored a bit, which is the case with most concert films nowadays. I wasn't familiar with autotune technology until now.

Having said that, the music in this film sounds really good. Not just the singing of Carole and James, but the guitar and bass playing and drumming and the additional vocalists.

It's interesting that Carole King has a history of being reluctant to do live performances, but this film offers no evidence to support this; she seemed really into it.

The blend of James and Carole is as inspiring as it was when I got to see them together in 1971 in college. Their talents mesh perfectly and they are having as much fun at what they do now as ever. They remind me why I fell in love with their style of music decades ago- and never got tired of it!