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Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Leaves That Are Green
2. Sound of Silence, The
3. Kathy's Song
4. America
5. Cecilia
6. El Condor Pasa
7. Boxer, The
8. Mrs. Robinson
9. Bridge Over Troubled Water - (demo)
10. Bridge Over Troubled Water - (album version)
11. Breakup, The
12. Hey, Schoolgirl
13. My Little Town
14. Me and Julio Down by the School Yard
15. Peace Like a River
16. Mother and Child Reunion
17. Congratulations
18. Duncan
19. American Tune
DISC 2:
1. Loves Me Like a Rock
2. Tenderness
3. Kodachrome
4. Gone at Last
5. Take Me to the Mardi Gras
6. St. Judy's Comet
7. Something So Right
8. Still Crazy After All These Years
9. Have a Good Time
10. Jonah
11. How the Heart Approaches What It Yearns
12. 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
13. Slip Slidin' Away
14. Late in the Evening
15. Hearts and Bones
16. Rene and Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After the War
17. Late Great Johnny Ace, The
DISC 3:
1. Boy in a Bubble, The
2. Graceland
3. Under African Skies
4. That Was Your Mother
5. Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes
6. You Can Call Me Al
7. Homeless
8. Spirit Voices
9. Obvious Child, The
10. Can't Run But
11. Thelma - (previously unreleased)
12. Further to Fly
13. She Moves On
14. Born at the Right Time
15. Cool, Cool River, The
16. Sound of Silence, The
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Paul Simon (vocals, nylon-string acoustic guitar, acoustic & electric guitars, six-string electric bass); Michael Riesman (conductor); Eric Gale (nylon string & electric guitars); Pete Carr (acoustic & electrical guitars); Peter Drake (pedal steel guitar, dobro); Chikapa "Ray" Phiri (guitar); Onward Brass Band (horns); Larry Knechtel (piano, organ, bass); Richard Tee (piano, keyboards, bass); Ken Asher (organ); Greg Phillinganes (synthesizers, bass); Bob James (keyboards); Joe Osborn (bass); Hal Blaine, Steve Gadd, Victor Montanez (drums); Ralph McDonald, UAKTA (percussion).
Additional guest artists: The Reverend Claude Jeter, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Phoebe Snow, The Dixie Hummingbirds, The Oak Ridge Boys, Milton Nascimento, C.J. Chenier, Rockin' Dopsie & The Twisters (vocals); Quincy Jones, Dave Grusin (arrangers); J.J. Cale, Ringo Starr (guitar); Charlie McCoy (harmonica); Michael Brecker (saxophone, trumpet, synthesizer); John Faddis, Randy Brecker (trumpet); Hugh Masekela (flugelhorn); Rick Marotta (drums); Nana Vasconcelos (percussion); The Waters, Cissy Houston, The Jesse Dixon Singers, Valerie Simpson, The Harptones, The Waters Sisters (background vocals).
Producers include: Paul Simon, Reginald Warburton, Stanley West, Art Garfunkel, Phil Ramone.
Engineers: Roy Halee Jerry Masters, Phil Ramone.
Compilation producer: Paul Simon.
Includes liner notes by Kevin Howlett, Paul Zollo and Philip Glass.
This 3-CD box set contains a 40-page booklet with extensive liner notes, track by track annotations, complete personnel and recording information a discography, rare photographs and is divided into three sections "The Early Years," "The Solo Years" and "Graceland And Beyond."
The perfect companion to OLD FRIENDS, the Simon & Garfunkel box, this three-disc set is a marvelously comprehensive compilation of tunes by the baby boomers' Poet Laureate. You get everything from his earliest work with Garfunkel to his seminal '70s folk-rock albums and the breakthrough world music fusion of GRACELAND and RHYTHM OF THE SAINTS. This box was put together with a sharp eye for Simon's unique songwriting gift ("Peace Like a River," "Hearts and Bones") as well as an ear for his irresistible pop hits ("Cecilia," "Late in the Evening.")
Enhancing the enjoyment of this package is a great booklet that features informative interviews with Simon as well as his own illuminating comments about the writing of many of the tunes included here. One of the things that comes to mind while listening is the eclecticism of Simon's muse. Even if there were other artists who could go from the skanking ska of "Mother and Child Reunion" to the gospel-tinged "Loves Me Like a Rock" to the big Brazilian beat of "The Obvious Child," there's nary a one who could make it all work the way Simon does.
Industry Reviews
...[Simon] has maintained a level of quality and innovation unequaled by his '60s peers.... - Rating: B +
Entertainment Weekly (12/03/1993)
...[1964/1993] gives a more satisfying picture of Simon's output than collections like NEGOTIATIONS AND LOVE SONGS or SIMON AND GARFUNKEL'S GREATEST HITS...
Rolling Stone (11/11/1993)
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