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- Download/Stream "Fire & Rain" smarturl.it/xniu2m
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I first heard 'Fire & Rain' when I was living in North Carolina, in grad school. My cousin, a great guitar player, had introduced me to James Taylor and urged me to take a listen. At first, he played me 'Country Road', but I fell in love with JT after hearing 'Fire & Rain'. I'll never forget how it made me feel. Not long after discovering his music, I became obsessed and delighted to find he had over 40 years worth of music for me to dig through. It was a blast getting to record this song, to say the very least.
Thank you so much for watching!
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How I Recorded 'Fire & Rain': bit.ly/FireRain...
This was done live in my little studio. I later mixed & edited the video before posting to youtube. I plugged in some earbuds so that I didn't have massive cans on my head for the video (lol my hair is massive as it is, we don't need to add to it). I was able to tuck them behind my neck and with a cable extender, plug it into my preamp. I recorded several takes, and got frustrated at times when I'd screw up just once....But it's worth it for the practice value. Secretly, I love doing these videos because it forces a sense of discipline in practice that doesn't exist for me if I don't have the pressure of being recorded. This is partly why I'm such a fan of recording. I approach many of my recordings like performance. I'm all about passionate, emotional performances and it just doesn't feel right to me when a single line is comped 30 times. Folks in the pop production world will highly disagree with me and that's okay because I'm old school. If I really can't get the vocal in a single take, I'll comp it a few times, but nothing intense.
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CREDITS:
Audio & Video Produced by Carol Kay
Engineered, Mixed & Mastered by Carol Kay
Directed by Carol Kay
Filmed, Edited & Colored by Carol Kay
Stream this song on my Covers Vol. 1 Album here!: smarturl.it/xniu2m
Thank you all so much!
😍💖👂😌
You have a timeless voice. The kind the indie female powerhouses of the 90’s had, like Sarah McLaughlin. Absolutely amazing. Few people have this quality anymore.
You captured and performed this song so beautifully; the way I always needed to hear it done. Thank you.
Omg 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 thank you 🙏🏼
Huuuge James Taylor fan- this is awesome, pretty darn decent!!
Carol, your cover of this song, which is my all time favorite, is perhaps the best I have ever heard. Your voice is so pure, honest and beautiful. Thanks for sharing your talents! God Bless!
Bravo !!!
ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!!As Close to Heaven as one can get here on Earth, to Heaven!!!
Glad to hear some Rain after the Fire in Australia.
Absolutely excellent! So rare that a timeless classic gets done as good as the original. Thank you.
Exquisite .. so sensitive ...
I love your styles, as a pianist and singer myself from Buenos Aires, lived in California years and tears . Your rendition really touched my musical heart. Thank you!
That was fantastic Carol, very smooth, loved it..!!
Thanks so much :D
This is my favorite because it is James Taylor. I saw him in July in Dallas and I you said you got to see him in San Francisco. Love JT and your cover of one of his best known songs. 💙🌹
Beautiful ❤
Made my cry again, Carol. Sending love to you and all your folk. Stay well lovely lady.
Great stuff
Alot of people can sing and sing well..... but you told the story also with an amazing voice.... Not alot can do that!
LOVE all of the songs that you sing
+Udom Simon thanks so much!
When you are down , and feel sad......... It is always great.... to listen to a lovely song from Carol ...... Big like # 766. Keep up singing Carol 3
Wow will you just sing me bedtime songs? That was absolutely just beautiful!😍
As always, very beautiful. Greetings from The Netherlands.
+Arjan van Vught thanks so much
All the piano covers I’ve heard of this have never sounded right to me. Always felt it was a guitar tune only but you’ve made it work someone. Bravo, and lovely voice
Nice
This song is one of my favorites, I’ve always been waiting for a cover like this! Thank you!!
Sei troppo brava!! You are too smart, clever and gorgeous!
Found your channel while researching Distrokid. Really enjoying your take on so many beautiful songs. Nice job covering Fire and Rain on piano. 👍
just MARVELOUS!!!!!
You just made my wife cry
This is fantastic! Beautiful keys AND vocals!! So smooth:)
Great was waiting on accordion to come in on this version don't know why...
Immense vocal control and real feel.
I enjoyed the video! Keep it up!
Thank you!
i must say I am in awe of your voice, control and the pure simple emotion you invoke with your gods given talent. you are amazing! wish you all the best!
Thank you so much Steven I appreciate it very much!
Hi. This song is soo Lovely and your performance was Lovely too. Thank u!!
Christer
Very good start natural,I like your style!👍👍👏👏
One of my favorites. Beautiful cover👏🏽👏🏽
+Warren Henry me too warren! Thanks!
Great cover, well done!
❤😊👍
🎵👍🎵👍 Love it!
+Seamon & James Songwriters thanks!
+Seamon & James Songwriters thank you!!
This is beautiful!!! And thank you, I've been trying to find a version that's just slightly higher so I can actually sing it 🤪
Great work . I like it !
Thanks so much!
Thank you for your advice. I'll keep likes and shares up in support of you.:)
+Diana DiDiego Thank you!
*Beautiful Cover!* ♥♫♪*
Your vocals are amazing love it!
I enjoyed this, shared with loveღ
Carla ~ TH-camSingers
Thank you!
Well I absolutely loved your James Taylor rendition. I'm a new fan since looking up info on Apollo Twin audio interfaces and you were somewhere in there. What reverb are you using and do you set it on a send channel in Logic? Also do you feel the Rhode tube mic is adding the warmth or is that you and the room you are tracking in? Sorry for all the questions but my Rhode NT 1 REISSUE seems brittle sometimes and my levels are -18db in the audio interface as well as in Logic Pro. It is so nice to see a real home studio artist that is not being wannabe engineer acting the part showing all their gear and expense of the gear but never having any real music/ production in the uploads of other channels. I laugh and than feel sad that they are not pushing the learning curve of the gear to really try to produce,engineer, make music. Usually it's a beat on their midi controller samples no less and they fumble around the DAW volume fader. Hehe! Than you again.
Thank you! So glad you enjoyed this! I'm using PT verb in Logic Pro and it's going through a bus. It's very possible the warmth in the signal is being caused by a number of things. When it comes to recording, the way your surroundings and equipment interact with each other seem to be, in my experience, the cause for how things end up sounding. Depending on what you're going for you can take certain measures to design an ideal environment.
For low levels, try boosting your input signal on your preamp. If you are going through your computer with a usb, try adding a gain plugin to just increase in volume. Good luck!
so clean vocal, could you tell us
how to use your condenser mic
recording without finger's noise,
how to avoid? any plugin to cut
it out while live recording?
Thankyou
+邱哲豐 i wrote a blog about how I recorded this cover, the link is in the description :)
+邱哲豐 also, just to answer your question, I mix everything once I'm done recording
Carol Kay ,thank you for your kindness, haha I will keep following.
Great work . I like it !
+حنبعل ملك قرطاج thank you !!