Paul Simon – There Goes Rhymin’ Simon (1973/2010)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96kHz | Time – 00:50:08 minutes | 940 MB | Genre: Rock
Official Digital Download – Source: acousticsounds.com | © Columbia Records
Recorded: Columbia Studios, New York City; Malaco Recording Studios, Jackson, Mississippi; Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, Sheffield, Alabama; Morgan Studios, London, September 1972 – January 1973
“Retaining the buoyant musical feel of Paul Simon, but employing a more produced sound, There Goes Rhymin’ Simon found Paul Simon writing and performing with assurance and venturing into soulful and R&B-oriented music. Simon returned to the kind of vocal pyrotechnics heard on the Simon & Garfunkel records by using gospel singers. On ‘Love Me Like a Rock’ and ‘Tenderness’ (which sounded as though it could have been written to Art Garfunkel), the Dixie Hummingbirds sang prominent backup vocals, and on ‘Take Me to the Mardi Gras,’ Reverend Claude Jeter contributed a falsetto part that Garfunkel could have handled, though not as warmly. For several tracks, Simon traveled to the Muscle Shoals Sound Studios to play with its house band, getting a variety of styles, from the gospel of ‘Love Me Like a Rock’ to the Dixieland of ‘Mardi Gras.’ Simon was so confident that he even included a major ballad statement of the kind he used to give Garfunkel to sing: ‘American Tune’ was his musical State of the Union, circa 1973, but this time Simon was up to making his big statements in his own voice.” — AllMusic
Tracklist:
1 Kodachrome 3:35
2 Tenderness 2:56
3 Take Me To The Mardi Gras 3:31
4 Something So Right 4:37
5 One Man’s Ceiling Is Another Man’s Floor 3:48
6 American Tune 3:47
7 Was A Sunny Day 3:44
8 Learn How To Fall 2:48
9 St. Judy’s Comet 3:22
10 Loves Me Like A Rock 3:40
Bonus Tracks
11 Let Me Live In Your City (Work-In-Progress) 4:22
12 Take Me To The Mardi Gras (Acoustic Demo) 2:31
13 American Tune (Unfinished Demo) 4:03
14 Loves Me Like A Rock (Acoustic Demo) 3:25
Personnel:
Paul Simon – vocals; guitar on “Kodachrome”, “Take Me to the Mardi Gras”, “Something So Right”, “American Tune”, “Was a Sunny Day”, “Learn How to Fall”, “St Judy’s Comet” & “Loves Me Like a Rock”
Pete Carr – guitar on “Kodachrome” & “One Man’s Ceiling is Another Man’s Floor”, electric guitar on “Take Me to the Mardi Gras” & “St Judy’s Comet”
Jimmy Johnson – electric guitar on “Kodachrome” & “Take Me to the Mardi Gras”
Cornell Dupree – guitar on “Tenderness”
Alexander Gafa, David Spinozza – guitars on “Something So Right”,
Jerry Puckett – guitar on “Learn How to Fall”
David Hood – bass guitar on “Kodachrome”, “Take Me to the Mardi Gras”, “One Man’s Ceiling is Another Man’s Floor”, “St Judy’s Comet” & “Loves Me Like a Rock”
Gordon Edwards – bass guitar on “Tenderness”
Bob Cranshaw – bass guitar on “Something So Right”, “American Tune” & “Was a Sunny Day”
Vernie Robbins – bass guitar on “Learn How to Fall”
Richard Davis – double bass on “Something So Right”
Barry Beckett – keyboard on “Kodachrome”, “Take Me to the Mardi Gras” & “St Judy’s Comet”, piano on “One Man’s Ceiling is Another Man’s Floor”, vibraphone on “St Judy’s Comet”
Paul Griffin – piano on “Tenderness”
Bobby James – keyboard on “Something So Right” & “American Tune”
Bobby Scott- piano on “Something So Right”
Carson Witsett – organ on “Learn How to Fall”
Don Elliott – vibraphone on “Something So Right”
Roger Hawkins – drums on “Kodachrome”, “Take Me to the Mardi Gras”, “One Man’s Ceiling is Another Man’s Floor” & “Loves Me Like a Rock”, percussion on “St Judy’s Comet”
Rick Marotta – drums on “Tenderness”
Grady Tate – drums on “Something So Right” & “American Tune”
James Straud – drums on “Learn How to Fall”
Airto Moreira – percussion on “Was a Sunny Day”
The Onward Brass Band – horns on “Take Me to the Mardi Gras”
The Dixie Hummingbirds – group vocals on “Tenderness” & “Loves Me Like a Rock”
Rev. Claude Jeter – falsetto vocals on “Take Me to the Mardi Gras”
Maggie and Terre Roche – backing vocals on “Was a Sunny Day”
Allen Toussaint – horn arrangements on “Tenderness”
Quincy Jones – string arrangements on “Something So Right”
Del Newman – string arrangements on “American Tune”
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