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DTITLE=Paul Simon / There Goes Rhymin' Simon (Expanded + Remastered)
DYEAR=1973
DGENRE=Rock
TTITLE0=Kodachrome
TTITLE1=Tenderness
TTITLE2=Take Me To The Mardi Gras
TTITLE3=Something So Right
TTITLE4=One Man's Ceilling Is Another Man's Floor
TTITLE5=American Tune
TTITLE6=Was A Sunny Day
TTITLE7=Learn How To Fall
TTITLE8=St. Judy's Comet
TTITLE9=Love Me Like A Rock
TTITLE10=Let Me Live In Your City (Unissued Work-In-Progress)
TTITLE11=Take Me To The Mardi Gras (Acoustic Demo)
TTITLE12=American Tune (Unfinished Demo)
TTITLE13=Love Me Like A Rock (Acoustic Demo)
EXTD=2004 Warner Strategic Marketing\n\nOriginally Released May 1973\nCD Edition Released \nRemastered + Expanded CD Edition Released July 13, 2004\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: Retaining the buoyant musical feel of Paul Simon, but employing a more produced sound
EXTD=, 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 "
EXTD=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 th
EXTD=at 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
EXTD= 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 hi
EXTD=s 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") a
EXTD=nd 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 G
EXTD=raceland in 1986. [In 2004, Warner Strategic Marketing reissued Simon's studio albums as remastered editions with bonus tracks, packaged in a cardboard digipack. The remastering on There Goes Rhymin' Simon is as excellent as it is on Paul Simon -- it
EXTD='s crystal clear, yet warm, easily the best-sounding version of this album yet pressed. Rhymin' Simon contains four previously unreleased bonus tracks. The first is "Let Me Live in Your City" -- billed as a "work-in-progress," it's an early version o
EXTD=f "Something So Right" with a different chorus. The remainder of the bonus tracks are rather revelatory solo acoustic demos of "Take Me to the Mardi Gras," "American Tune" (which is unfinished), and "Loves Me Like a Rock" (which contains a slightly d
EXTD=ifferent final verse).] ~ William Ruhlmann\n\nAmazon.com essential recording\nIn the early '70s, Paul Simon sounded old before his time: while his harder-rocking peers were hanging on to themes of youthful rebellion and romantic obsession, Simon, alr
EXTD=eady a pop veteran who'd notched records since his teens, focused on the smaller details and defining quirks of real life. His second solo album finds him regarding the passage of time and the fragility of relationships with his usual mix of smart-al
EXTD=eck observations and gentler, more deeply felt melancholy. "Kodachrome" was a breezy delight upon its release that now sounds prescient in its backwards glance at myths of youth, "An American Tune" sustains its mood of graceful maturity against a Bac
EXTD=h-inspired guitar arrangement that's still gorgeous, and "Something So Right" remains Simon's most luminous declaration of love. Actually produced in varied studios with shifting session bands (including the chameleons in the Muscle Shoals Sound sect
EXTD=ion), the set also introduced the Roches and notched Simon's first plunge into gospel on "Loves Me Like A Rock." --Sam Sutherland \n\nHalf.com Album Credits\nAirto Moreira, Contributing Artist\nThe Dixie Hummingbirds, Contributing Artist\n\nAlbum Not
EXTD=es\nPersonnel: Paul Simon (vocals, guitar); Jimmy Johnson (electric guitar); Bobby James (keyboards); Pete Carr, Cornell Dupree, David Spinozza, Alexander Gafa, Jerry Pucket (guitar); The Onward Brass Band (horns); Bobby Scott, Paul Griffin (piano); 
EXTD=Carson Witsett (organ); Barry Beckett (keyboards, vibraphone); Don Elliott (vibraphone); David Hood, Gordon Edwards, Bob Cranshaw, Vernie Robbins, Richard Davis (bass); Roger Hawkins, Rick Marotta, James Straud (drums); Rev. Claude Jeter (background 
EXTD=vocals).\n\nProducers: Paul Simon, Phil Ramone, The Muscle Shoals Sound Rhythm Section, Paul Samwell-Smith, Roy Halee.\n\nEngineers: Phil Ramone, Jerry Masters, Roger Quested, Gerald Stephenson.\n\nRecorded at Muscle Shoals Sound Studios, Alabama and
EXTD= Morgan Studios, London, England.\n\nWas it really the tail-end of the 60s when Simon gave us this continuation of Bookends?, an album of a similar feel. After he parted from Garfunkel, Simon wrote songs without having to consider two-part harmonies,
EXTD= and this in turn gave his music a freer, less folk rock flavour. 'American Tune' remains one of his greatest compositions and would make a better alternative to 'America The Beautiful' as the national anthem. Simon had to wait a long time before he 
EXTD=topped this record artistically, but he did it in style with Graceland. This is the other Paul Simon album to own.
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