Paul Simon - Still Crazy After All These Years (2LPs, 45RPM, Box Set, 1STEP, SuperVinyl)
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Paul Simon – vocals, acoustic guitar (A2, B1, B2, D1), electric guitar (B3), horn and string arrangements [click here to see more products featuring Paul Simon]
Art Garfunkel – vocals (A2) [click here to see more products featuring Art Garfunkel]
John Tropea – electric guitar (B2)
Patti Austin – background vocals
Phoebe Snow – background vocals, vocals (C1)
Joe Beck – electric guitar (B1, C3, D1)
Michael Brecker – tenor saxophone (A1), saxophone (C2)
Bob James – piano, Fender Rhodes piano (C2, C3), string and horn arrangements
David Sanborn – saxophone (C2)
Grady Tate – drums (C1)
Pete Carr – electric guitar (A2)
Sivuca – accordion and vocals (B1)
Ralph MacDonald – percussion (A2, B1, B2, C1, C3)
Chicago Community Choir – background vocals
Barry Beckett – Fender Rhodes (A1), piano (A2)
Eddie Daniels – saxophone (C2)
Gordon Edwards – bass guitar (C1)
Jerry Friedman – electric guitar (B1)
Steve Gadd – drums (C1-3, D1-2)
Roger Hawkins – drums (A1-2)
David Hood – bass guitar (A1-2)
The Jessy Dixon Singers – background vocals
Tony Levin – bass guitar (B1-3, C2-3, D1-2)
Hugh McCracken – electric guitar (B2, C2-3), acoustic guitar (D1)
Leon Pendarvis – piano (D2)
Dave Mathews – horn arrangements
Valerie Simpson – background vocals
Richard Tee – piano (C1)
Toots Thielemans – harmonica (B3)
Phil Woods – alto saxophone (C3)
Kenneth Ascher – Hammond organ (B2), Fender Rhodes, piano (B1)
2 LPs, box set, gatefold cover
UltraDisc One-Step (UD1S)
Limited to 8,000 numbered copies
Original analog Master tape : YES
Heavy Press : 180g, SuperVinyl
Record color : black
Speed : 45RPM
Size : 12”
Stereo
Studio
Record Press : RTI
Label : MOFI
Original Label : Columbia
Recorded at A&R Recording, New York City in 1975 by Phil Ramone
Produced by Paul Simon
Remastered by Krieg Wunderlich
Originally released in 1975
Reissued in 2021
Tracks:
Side A:
- Still Crazy After All These Years
- My Little Town
Side B:
- I Do It For Your Love
- 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover
- Night Game
Side C:
- Gone At Last
- Some Folks' Lives Roll Easy
- Have A Good Time
Side D :
- You're Kind
- Silent Eyes
Awards :
Grammy Awards for Album of the Year and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance
Reviews :
"The third new studio album of Paul Simon's post-Simon & Garfunkel career was a musical and lyrical change of pace from his first two, Paul Simon and There Goes Rhymin' Simon. Where Simon had taken an eclectic approach before, delving into a variety of musical styles and recording all over the world, Still Crazy found him working for the most part with a group of jazz-pop New York session players, though he did do a couple of tracks ("My Little Town" and "Still Crazy After All These Years") with the Muscle Shoals rhythm section that had appeared on Rhymin' Simon and another ("Gone at Last") returned to the gospel style of earlier songs like "Loves Me Like a Rock." Of course, "My Little Town" also marked a return to working with Art Garfunkel, and another Top Ten entry for S&G. But the overall feel of Still Crazy was of a jazzy style subtly augmented with strings and horns. Perhaps more striking, however, was Simon's lyrical approach. Where Rhymin' Simon was the work of a confident family man, Still Crazy came off as a post-divorce album, its songs reeking of smug self-satisfaction and romantic disillusionment. At their best, such sentiments were undercut by humor and made palatable by musical hooks, as on "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover," which became the biggest solo hit of Simon's career. But elsewhere, as on "Have a Good Time," the singer's cynicism seemed unearned. Still, as out of sorts as Simon may have been, he was never more in tune with his audience: Still Crazy topped the charts, spawned four Top 40 hits, and won Grammys for Song of the Year and Best Vocal Performance." AllMusic Review by William Ruhlmann
UltraDisc One-Step : Instead of utilizing the industry-standard three-step lacquer process, Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab's new UltraDisc One-Step (UD1S) uses only one step, bypassing two processes of generational loss. While three-step processing is designed for optimum yield and efficiency, UD1S is created for the ultimate in sound quality. Just as Mobile Fidelity pioneered the UHQR (Ultra High-Quality Record) with JVC in the 1980s, UD1S again represents another state-of-the-art advance in the record-manufacturing process. MFSL engineers begin with the original master tapes and meticulously cut a set of lacquers. These lacquers are used to create a very fragile, pristine UD1S stamper called a "convert." Delicate "converts" are then formed into the actual record stampers, producing a final product that literally and figuratively brings you closer to the music. By skipping the additional steps of pulling another positive and an additional negative, as done in the three-step process used in standard pressings, UD1S produces a final LP with the lowest noise floor possible today. The removal of the additional two steps of generational loss in the plating process reveals tremendous amounts of extra musical detail and dynamics, which are otherwise lost due to the standard copying process. The exclusive nature of these very limited pressings guarantees that every UD1S pressing serves as an immaculate replica of the lacquer sourced directly from the original master tape. Every conceivable aspect of vinyl production is optimized to produce the most perfect record album available today.
MoFi SuperVinyl: The World's Quietest Surfaces and Cleanest Grooves: Developed by NEOTECH and RTI, MoFi SuperVinyl is the most exacting-to-specification vinyl compound ever created. Analog lovers have never seen (or heard) anything like it. Extraordinarily expensive and extremely painstaking to produce, the special proprietary compound addresses two specific areas of improvement: noise floor reduction and enhanced groove definition. The vinyl composition features a new carbonless dye (hold the disc up to the light and see) and produces the world's quietest surfaces. This high-definition formula also allows for the creation of cleaner grooves that are indistinguishable from the original lacquer. MoFi SuperVinyl provides the closest approximation of what the label's engineers hear in the mastering lab.
Ratings :
AllMusic : 4,5 / 5 , Discogs : 4,07 / 5