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Paul Simon
Concert in the Park
Release Date: 1991 11 zz
Running Time: 117:22
Label: Warner Bros.
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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. William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide

Tracks:

	Title	Composer	Time
1	Obvious Child	Simon	4:38
2	Boy in the Bubble	Simon, Motloheloa	5:59
3	She Moves On	Simon	6:25
4	Kodachrome	Simon	4:13
5	Born at the Right Time	Simon	5:12
6	Train in the Distance	Simon	4:45
7	Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard	Simon	3:13
8	I Know What I Know	Simon, Shirinda	4:44
9	Cool, Cool River	Simon	5:40
10	Bridge over Troubled Water	Simon	5:16
11	Proof	Simon	5:39
12	Coast	Simon, Nguini	7:04
13	Graceland	Simon	5:30
14	You Can Call Me Al	Simon	5:10
15	Still Crazy After All These Years	Simon	3:42
16	Loves Me Like a Rock	Simon	2:53
17	Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes	Simon, Shabalala	9:30
18	Hearts and Bones	Simon	6:17
19	Late in the Evening	Simon	4:44
20	America	Simon	3:22
21	Boxer	Simon	4:18
22	Cecilia	Simon	3:24
23	Sound of Silence	Simon	5:44

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