Paul Simon - Graceland - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

With GRACELAND, Paul Simon hit on the idea of combining his always perceptive songwriting with the little-heard mbaqanga music of South Africa, creating a fascinating hybrid that re-enchanted his old audience and earned him a new one. An enormously successful record, GRACELAND became the standard against which subsequent musical experiments by major artists were measured and continues to provide rewards to it's listeners and remains a pivotal listening experience for writers, artists and fans. Original album plus bonus tracks, including new spoken word the Story of GRACELAND as told by Paul Simon. Album Tracks 1. The Boy in the Bubble 2. Graceland 3. I Know What I Know 4. Gumboots 5. Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes 6. You Can Call Me Al 7. Under African Skies 8. Homeless 9. Crazy Love, Vol. 2 10. That Was Your Mother 11. All Around the World or the Myth of Fingerprints 12. Homeless [Demo] [Demo Version] 13. Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes [Alt. Version] [Version] 14. All Around the World or the Myth of Fingerprints [Early Version] [Ve 15. The Story of Graceland

The missing link in the Simon & Garfunkel discography, finally on CD in the U.S.! in fact, Paul long suppressed the of this record in America; recorded in Britain in 1965 after the commercial failure of the duo's Wednesday Morning 3 AM album. It features a Simon solo in the British CBS studios singing I Am a Rock; Leaves That Are Green; the Sound of Silence, and more, including the Scarborough Fair precursor This Side of a Hill. This reissue includes unissued takes of I Am a Rock and a Church Is Burning, plus original notes and track-by-track overview by Simon and Garfunkel themselves! Album Tracks 1. I Am a Rock 2. Leaves That Are Green 3. A Church Is Burning 4. April Come She Will 5. The Sound of Silence 6. A Most Peculiar Man 7. He Was My Brother 8. Kathy's Song 9. The Side of a Hill 10. A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara'd Into Submission) 11. Flowers Never Bend with the Rainfall 12. Patterns 13. I Am a Rock (Alternate Version) 14. A Church Is Burning (Alternate Version)

Seven Psalms is the 2023 studio album of original material from Paul Simon and his first in seven years since 2016's Stranger To Stranger. Conceived more as a continuous piece of music in seven segments as opposed to seven individual songs, the album is primarily acoustic with Paul playing guitar, keyboards, and percussion with occasional support by strings and backing vocals. Album Tracks 1. The Lord 2. Love Is Like a Braid 3. My Professional Opinion 4. Your Forgiveness 5. Trail of Volcanoes 6. The Sacred Harp 7. Wait