July, 2014 - Carol King - Greyhound

Carol King

Born Carol Joan Klein, King learned the piano at the age of 4.  In high school she formed a band called Co-Sines and made demo records with her friend Paul Simon for $25 a session.  At Queens College seh met her husband and songwriting partner Gerry Goffin.  Their first hit together was "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" with King writing the music and Goffin writing the lyrics.  They continued to work together through the 60s up until they divorced and King moved to LA.  It wasn't until the 1970s that she began to collaborate with James Taylor and Joni Mitchell and finally went solo.  WIth numerous hits throughout the next two decades, Carol King was nick named the Queen of Rock.  By the time she "retired" in 2012 she had written 118 hits that made it on the Billboard Hot 100.  In 2012 she received the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, becoming the first woman to receive the distinction given to songwriters for a body of work.

The Drink:

Greyhound

2 oz vodka in grapefruit juice

Drinkability: 3/4
Drunkability: 3
Taxic Diversity: 1
Accessibility: 4
Priority for Conservation: 4

Comments: depends on whether or not you like grapefruit juice.  Tastes better when following a terrible cocktail.

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