![]() For the proof as to why Paul Simon is still shining like a national guitar, look no further than The Complete Albums Collection and Over the Bridge of Time. The disc concludes with 2011's "Love and Hard Times" from So Beautiful or So What.īoth the career-spanning box set and single-disc compendium will be available on October 15 in physical and digital configurations. Paul Simon, Still Crazy After All These Years and Graceland are the only solo LPs represented by more than one song. a track which is not included in the box set. Over the Bridge of Time follows past Simon compilations such as The Essential Paul Simon and Paul Simon: Songwriter but is distinguished as Simon's first 1-CD set to include Simon and Garfunkel material, namely "The Sound of Silence," "America," and four songs from 1970's Bridge Over Troubled Water: "The Boxer," "Cecilia," "The Only Living Boy in New York," and "Bridge Over Troubled Water." It goes on to feature selections from ten solo albums, plus "Slip Slidin' Away" from Greatest Hits, Etc. ![]() Sweetening the pot, The Complete Albums Collection contains a 56-page book with rare photographs and a new essay penned by music scholar Ashley Kahn. The former contains the two bonus tracks first released on Legacy’s 2011 CD reissue, for a grand total of 37 bonus tracks on the new box. Unlike the Rhino set, this box also finds room for Simon’s two concert albums Paul Simon in Concert: Live Rhymin’ (1974) and Paul Simon’s Concert in the Park: Aug(1991). All of the bonus tracks from the Rhino reissues have been retained (30 overall) and three additional tracks added for Legacy’s 2012 Graceland reissue are also present. and Hear Music labels, from Paul Simon (1972) to So Beautiful or So What, his 2011 reunion with co-producer Phil Ramone. ![]() ![]() The Complete Albums Collection then goes onto Simon’s LPs as released on the Columbia, Warner Bros. What exactly will you find in the new box and on the new anthology? Just hit the jump, won’t you? The Paul Simon Songbook kicks off the new box, reprising the two bonus tracks (alternates of “I Am a Rock” and “A Church is Burning”) which debuted on Legacy’s original 2004 CD reissue of the once-rare album. The new Complete Albums Collection rewinds to 1965, when the young folk troubadour recorded an acoustic LP on a sojourn to London. As Simon has released two more studio albums since 2000 and overseen reissue of more of his back catalogue, Legacy’s box is both an update and an expansion of that original box set. This box covered the period between Paul Simon (1972) and You’re the One (2000). Records released The Studio Recordings 1972-2000 encompassing nine studio albums and thirty bonus tracks. Nearly a decade ago, in 2004, Rhino and Warner Bros. That same day, the label drops Over the Bridge of Time: A Paul Simon Retrospective, a 20-track, 1-CD career overview tracing Simon's oeuvre from his Simon and Garfunkel days through 2011's So Beautiful or So What. Hence, on October 15, Legacy Recordings will issue The Complete Albums Collection on 15 CDs, bringing under one roof all twelve of Simon’s studio recordings plus two live albums and 37 bonus tracks. Still, there’s something so right about taking a look back on a storied career even when future chapters are yet to be written. could rest on his laurels, but that’s not the scrappy Rhymin’ Simon. He's also had his songs recorded by the likes of Aretha Franklin, Emmylou Harris, Harper's Bizarre and The Bangles. That’s not to mention being one-half of the most famed pair in American popular song and recording twelve acclaimed solo studio albums. Born in Newark, New Jersey and raised in Queens, New York, Simon has racked up 12 Grammy Awards, an Emmy, a Kennedy Center Honor, the first-ever Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, and Academy Award, Golden Globe and Tony nominations. There isn’t much that Paul Simon hasn’t accomplished in his 50+ years as a professional musician, singer, and songwriter.
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