Selections Include: 1. Baby Driver 2. Cecilia 3. One Man's Ceiling Is Another man's Floor 4. so Long, Frank Lloyd Wright 5. Loves Me Like A Rock 6. Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard 7. St. Judy's Comet 8. Punky's Dilemma 9. Overs 10. Mother And Child Reunion 11. Do It For Your Love 12. Still Crazy After All These Years 13. Why Don't You Write Me? 14. Old Friends/Bookends
Additional personnel includes: Gil Goldstein (keyboards); Russell Malone (guitar); Christian McBride (bass).
All tracks have been digitally mastered using HDCD technology.
As Paul Simon was perparing his first Broadway musical, The Capeman, the New York Voices assembled New York Voices Sing the Songs of Paul Simon, a song-and-dance production of Simon's biggest hits. As a musical experience, the New York Voices turned out a better, richer album than Simon, whose Songs from the Capeman was curiously stillborn. The Songs of Paul Simon, however, is full of life, teeming with energy and bursting with melody. Produced by Joel Moss and featuring cameos by Christian McBride, Gil Goldstein and Russell Malone, the project features familiar numbers like "Cecilia," "Loves Me Like a Rock," "Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard" and "Still Crazy After All These Years," but it also showcases wonderful album tracks like "One Man's Ceiling (Is Another Man's Floor)" and "Baby Driver." The arrangements are brighter and brassier than Simon's originals, but there's a real charm to the performances that makes it a thoroughly entertaining experience, one that's much more fun and engaging than The Capeman. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
