'Tapestry'

When you're able to capture the mood of the album through the album cover, you know you've got something good.

The wild-haired, barefooted King sitting next to the window on that wooden bench with her cat encapuslates everything you'll take away from the actual songs on the record.

It's stripped down and intimate. Just King and her songs and a piano. Some backing vocals and instruments. But, on the whole, it's King almost in your living room pouring her soul out to you with these heartbreakingly sincere songs.

And that damn cat. Posing there on that blue pillow as if it were his/her album and not King's.

Tapestry is one of my favorite albums of all time. I've owned it for a decade and I remember buying it used almost solely on the album cover. It floors me that King was album to write "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" at the tender age of 18. I think it should be made illegal for an 18-year-old to feel the way the narrator of that song feels. It's just too unnatural. I blame Gerry Goffin or James Taylor. Not sure who.