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Love Makes the World

Love Makes the World is the 16th studio album by Carole King, released in 2001. Distributed by Koch Records, it was her first release on her Rockingale Records label. As of 2024, it is her most recent album of new material.

Love Makes the World

September 25, 2001

1998–2001

44:11

KOCH/Rockingale

During the release for the album, King appeared in a series of television advertisements for Gap, in which her daughter Louise Goffin performs "So Far Away" and King performs "Love Makes the World".

Carole King – , vocals, backing vocals, vocal and string arrangements

piano

– keyboards, backing vocals, vocal arrangements, guitar, drums, programming

Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds

– piano, keyboards

David Foster

– keyboards, programming

Randy Waldman

– piano, electric piano, backing vocals, vocal arrangement

Paul Brady

– piano, programming, track arrangement

C.J. Vanston

Steve Hamilton, – acoustic guitar, electric guitar

Dean Parks

– acoustic guitar, backing vocals, vocal arrangement

Gary Burr

Rudy Guess – guitar, electric guitar

Michael Landau

Paul Jackson Jr. – electric guitar

Rusty Anderson

guitar, drums

Greg Wells

Charlie Larkey – , bass

acoustic bass

Armand Sabal-Leccobass

Nathan East

drums

Russ Kunkel

Michael Fisher, Duke Mushroom – percussion

David Boruff –

saxophone

Jim Thatcher – French horn

Barbara Northcutt – oboe

David Shostac – flute

Julie Ann Gigante, Jacqueline Brand, Miran Kojian, Rafael Rishik, Amy Hershberger – violin

Endre Granat

Brian Dembow, David Walther –

viola

John Walz, Armen Ksajikian –

cello

Dan Woods – backing vocals

Simon Franglen, Dave Schommer, Lester Mendez – programming

Michael McCoy – drum programming

trumpet on "I Wasn't Gonna Fallin' Love"

Wynton Marsalis

– vocals, backing vocals on "The Reason"

Celine Dion

– vocals on "An Uncommon Love"

k.d. lang

– backing vocals on "Monday Without You"

Steven Tyler

– backing vocals, vocal arrangement

Mark Hudson