Paul Simon - Songwriter (2011 - 2 CDs)

Paul Simon Songwriter is a selection of songs, chosen by the composer, as the best of his decades-long creative output. Some of these are well-known hits and others more obscure works, but all bear the distinct lyrical, melodic and rhythmic signature of Paul Simon, one of the great composers of popular song in the last 50 years. As Simon has said, ΓΓé¼┼ôI think of myself as a songwriter first, the recording artist and performer in me follow in the writerΓΓé¼Γäós footsteps.ΓΓé¼┬¥ Simon brought his own unique perspective on the nuances of his catalog in the assemblage of Songwriter, a new anthology of his work handpicked and sequenced by the artist. The album includes an emotionally resonant rendition of ΓΓé¼┼ôThe Sound of Silence,ΓΓé¼┬¥ from SimonΓΓé¼Γäós 2011 concert at New YorkΓΓé¼Γäós Webster Hall and Aretha FranklinΓΓé¼Γäós transcendent studio take on ΓΓé¼┼ôBridge Over Trouble WaterΓΓé¼┬¥ and other selections from the artistΓΓé¼Γäós critically-acclaimed catalog of songs. Selecting the individual songs for Songwriter, from the hundreds heΓΓé¼Γäós written and recorded, presented Paul Simon an opportunity to to reflect over the entirety of his career and showcase the individual songs best-exemplifying the high-points in his conversations with the muses, from his early work with Simon & Garfunkel through to his ruminations on the eternal now echoing across 2011's So Beautiful or So What.

"I think of myself as a songwriter first. The recording artist and performer in me follow in the writer's footsteps." - Paul Simon

DISC 1:
01. The Sound of Silence (Live at Webster Hall 2011) - new unreleased
02. The Boxer (Live at Central Park 1991)
03. Bridge Over Troubled Water (Aretha Franklin - studio version)
04. Mother and Child Reunion
05. Tenderness
06. Peace Like a River
07. American Tune
08. Kodachrome
09. Something So Right
10. Late In the Evening
11. Train In the Distance
12. Hearts and Bones
13. Rene and Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After the War
14. Still Crazy After All These Years
15. Diamonds On the Soles of Her Shoes
16. The Boy In the Bubble
17. Graceland

DISC 2:
01. Obvious Child
02. Further To Fly
03. The Cool, Cool River
04. Spirit Voices
05. Born In Puerto Rico
06. Quality
07. Darling Lorraine
08. Look At That
09. Senorita With a Necklace of Tears 10.
10. ThatΓΓé¼Γäós Me
11. Another Galaxy
12. Father and Daughter
13. Rewrite
14. Love and Hard Times
15. So Beautiful Or So What

Disc 1, Track 1 previously unreleased
Disc 1, Track 2 from Paul SimonΓΓé¼Γäós Concert in the Park, Warner Bros. 9 26737-2, 1991
Disc 1, Track 3 from Atlantic single 2796, 1971
Disc 1, Tracks 4 & 6 from Paul Simon, Columbia LP KC-30750, 1972
Disc 1, Tracks 5, 7-9 from There Goes RhyminΓΓé¼Γäó Simon, Columbia LP KC-32280, 1973
Disc 1, Track 10 from One Trick Pony, Warner Bros. LP 3472, 1980
Disc 1, Tracks 11-13 from Hearts and Bones, Warner Bros. LP 23942, 1983
Disc 1, Track 14 from Still Crazy After All These Years, Columbia LP PC-33540, 1975
Disc 1, Tracks 15-17 from Graceland, Warner Bros. LP 25447, 1986
Disc 2, Tracks 1-4 from The Rhythm of the Saints, Warner Bros. LP 26098, 1990
Disc 2, Tracks 5-6 from Songs from the Capeman, Warner Bros. CD 46814, 1997
Disc 2, Tracks 7-9 from YouΓΓé¼Γäóre the One, Warner Bros. CD 47844, 2000
Disc 2, Tracks 10-12 from Surprise, Warner Bros. CD 49982, 2006
Disc 2, Tracks 13-15 from So Beautiful or So What, Hear Music CD HRM-32814-2, 2011


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