Louise Goffin hosts and produces Song Chronicles, a podcast featuring conversations with legendary songwriters, musicians and producers from the relaxed perspective of an insider, talking the "inside baseball" of songs and record-making with peers. Song Chronicles creates an exclusive record of historic stories told by the music makers themselves. Guests have included 23x GRAMMY-winning sound engineer and producer Al Schmitt, 7x GRAMMY-winner Gloria Estefan, multi-platinum songwriter-producers Desmond Child and Sam Hollander, and many more. Song Chronicles follows where The Great Song Adventure left off, an earlier podcast co-hosted with author and songwriter, Paul Zollo where they interviewed songwriters like Mike Stoller, Chrissie Hynde, Chris Difford and Chuck D. The Great Song Adventure archives includes an intimate five-part interview with Carole King, which remains King's most extensive interview to date.
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Monday Mar 11, 2019
Monday Mar 11, 2019
Episode 25
Carole King
Part Five
The Great Song Adventure is happy and proud to present this, the final installation of our five-part series of episodes with Carole King.
photo by Jim McCrary
On the morning after the first interview conducted by Louise and Paul, Carole - who is Louise's mom - told her daughter she had more to say. So they sat down again, and Carole shared much more, extending into our fourth episode, and this final one.
It's a remarkable conversation, in which mother and daughter, both serious songwriters, discuss the art and business of songwriting as it has shifted in modern times. And much more.
Credit: Buzz Photo/ RexFeatures
"Allow yourself to open," she tells songwriters about how best to allow songs to come through. "Don't judge what is coming out," she says. "Just keep going... " Always she stresses the value of writing songs not only for the outcome, but for the joy of the process. After writing a song, she says, despite whether you think it's great or not, it's important to appreciate the journey.
"You just had the doing," she said. "and the doing is what it's about."
Carole in 1947 with her parents Eugenia and Sidney Klein.
She also discusses the great difference of being a songwriter in her day, and existing - as does Louise - in this new digital world where record companies no longer do all the work for the artist and where recording artists and songwriters do it all for themselves, managing their own content and social media. "You have the answer more than I do," she says to Louise.
clockwise - Gerry Goffin, Carole King, Louise Goffin & Sherry Kondor
2016 Hyde Park Concert, Carole with Louise & Kootch
photo by Elissa Kline Photography
photo by Paul Zollo
James Taylor and Carole King, 1971, by Barrie Wentzell.
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