Paul Simon - There Goes Rhymin' Simon (Hybrid SACD, Ultradisc UHR)
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Paul Simon – vocals, acoustic guitar [click here to see more Vinyl / SACD featuring Paul Simon]
Pete Carr – electric guitar, acoustic guitar
Jimmy Johnson – electric guitar
Cornell Dupree – electric guitar
Al Gafa, David Spinozza – guitar
Jerry Puckett – electric guitar
David Hood – bass guitar
Gordon Edwards – bass guitar
Bob Cranshaw – bass guitar
Vernie Robbins – bass guitar
Richard Davis – double bass
Barry Beckett – keyboards, piano, vibraphone
Paul Griffin – piano
Bob James – keyboards
Bobby Scott – piano
Carson Whitsett – Hammond organ
Don Elliott – vibraphone
Roger Hawkins – drums, percussion
Rick Marotta – drums
Grady Tate – drums
James Stroud – drums
Airto Moreira – percussion
The Onward Brass Band – horns
The Dixie Hummingbirds – group vocals
Rev. Claude Jeter – falsetto vocals
Maggie and Terre Roche – backing vocals
Allen Toussaint – horn arrangements
Quincy Jones – string arrangements
Del Newman – string arrangements
1 Hybrid SACD, Ultradisc UHR
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Label : MOFI
Original Label : Columbia
Recorded September 1972 – January 1973 at Columbia Studios, New York City ; A&R Recording, New York City ; Malaco Recording Studios, Jackson, Mississippi ; Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, Sheffield, Alabama ; Morgan Studio, London
Engineered by Jerry Masters, Phil Ramone
Produced by Paul Simon, Phil Ramone, Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, Paul Samwell-Smith, Roy Halee
Originally released in 1973
Reissued in 2023
Tracks:
- Kodachrome
- Tenderness
- Take Me to the Mardi Gras
- Something So Right
- One Man's Ceiling Is Another Man's Floor
- American Tune
- Was a Sunny Day
- Learn How to Fall
- St. Judy's Comet
- Loves Me Like a Rock
Review :
“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. Though that song spoke of "the age's most uncertain hour," otherwise Rhymin' Simon was a collection of largely positive, optimistic songs of faith, romance, and commitment, concluding, appropriately, with a lullaby ("St. Judy's Comet") and a declaration of maternal love ("Loves Me Like a Rock") -- in other words, another mother-and-child reunion that made Paul Simon and There Goes Rhymin' Simon bookend masterpieces Simon would not improve upon (despite some valiant attempts) until Graceland in 1986.” AllMusic Review by William Ruhlmann
Ratings :
AllMusic : 5 / 5 , Discogs : 4,11 / 5