Name: Concert In The Park August 15, 1991 by Paul Simon
Brand: Paul Simon
SKU: 884977674316
Price: 9.9 USD
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Ten years after playing a free concert in New York's Central Park with Art Garfunkel, Paul Simon returned, backed by the New York session musicians and the native musicians from South Africa and Brazil who had enlivened his solo work. The show was filmed and recorded, and the audio release was a 23-track double-disc set running nearly two hours. Half the selections came from his Graceland and The Rhythm of the Saints albums, but unlike the Graceland Tour of 1987, the Born at the Right Time Tour of 1991 made room for Simon's earlier solo work as well as a few Simon & Garfunkel songs. Simon made such stylistically various material work together by front-loading the set with the newer stuff and rearranging some of the older solo stuff, so that "Kodachrome," for example, was refitted with a guitar line courtesy of Graceland player Ray Phiri. (Wisely, except for a becalmed Africanization of "Cecilia," Simon didn't monkey with the S&G songs, most of which came at the end of the set.) But Simon also toned down the Brazilian percussion that had dominated the Saints material and sang it more convincingly, so that "Born at the Right Time," for example, was far more effective than it had been in its studio version. On the whole, then, Concert in the Park managed to be an enjoyable and surprisingly cohesive career summary.
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Concert In The Park August 15, 1991

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Volume 1

Volume 2

Volume 1

1. The Obvious Child (Live at Central Park, New York, NY - August 15, 1991)

2. The Boy in the Bubble (Live at Central Park, New York, NY - August 15, 1991)

3. She Moves On (Live at Central Park, New York, NY - August 15, 1991)

4. Kodachrome (Live at Central Park, New York, NY - August 15, 1991)

5. Born at the Right Time (Live at Central Park, New York, NY - August 15, 1991)

6. Train in the Distance (Live at Central Park, New York, NY - August 15, 1991)

7. Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard (Live at Central Park, New York, NY - August 15, 1991)

8. I Know What I Know (Live at Central Park, New York, NY - August 15, 1991)

9. The Cool, Cool River (Live at Central Park, New York, NY - August 15, 1991)

10. Bridge over Troubled Water (Live at Central Park, New York, NY - August 15, 1991)

11. Proof (Live at Central Park, New York, NY - August 15, 1991)

Volume 2

1. The Coast (Live at Central Park, New York, NY - August 15, 1991)

2. Graceland (Live at Central Park, New York, NY - August 15, 1991)

3. You Can Call Me Al (Live at Central Park, New York, NY - August 15, 1991)

4. Still Crazy After All These Years (Live at Central Park, New York, NY - August 15, 1991)

5. Loves Me Like a Rock (Live at Central Park, New York, NY - August 15, 1991)

6. Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes (Live at Central Park, New York, NY - August 15, 1991)

7. Hearts and Bones (Live at Central Park, New York, NY - August 15, 1991)

8. Late in the Evening (Live at Central Park, New York, NY - August 15, 1991)

9. America (Live at Central Park, New York, NY - August 15, 1991)

10. The Boxer (Live at Central Park, New York, NY - August 15, 1991)

11. Cecilia (Live at Central Park, New York, NY - August 15, 1991)

12. The Sound of Silence (Live at Central Park, New York, NY - August 15, 1991)

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