“So Far Away” by Carole King

"So Far Away" is one of the quiet heart-tuggers on Tapestry, Carole King's 1971 album, a song she wrote alone about longing for a lover who's out of reach. What starts as a matter of miles opens up, as it goes on, into the emotional gap between two people. King sings and plays piano, James Taylor adds acoustic guitar, Russ Kunkel plays drums, Charles Larkey plays bass and Curtis Amy is on flute, with Lou Adler producing and Hank Cicalo engineering.

Rolling Stone credited her warm, earnest singing with drawing out its sadness. Decades later, American Songwriter ranked it second among her ten greatest songs, and friends and family performed it at Amy Winehouse's funeral because it had been one of her favorites.

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