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Paul Simon - There Goes Rhymin' Simon (1973/2015)
 FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 50:09 minutes | 983 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

 There Goes Rhymin' Simon is the third solo studio album by American musician Paul Simon rush-released on May 5, 1973. It contains songs covering several styles and genres, such as gospel ("Loves Me Like a Rock") and Dixieland ("Take Me to the Mardi Gras"). It received two nominations at the Grammy Awards of 1974, including Best Male Pop Vocal performance and Album of the Year.


 Retaining the buoyant musical feel of Paul Simon, but employing a more produced sound, 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 "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 that 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 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 his 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") and 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 Graceland in 1986.  


Tracklist:

 01 - Kodachrome
 02 - Tenderness
 03 - Take Me to the Mardi Gras
 04 - Something so Right
 05 - One Man's Ceiling Is Another Man's Floor
 06 - American Tune
 07 - Was a Sunny Day
 08 - Learn How to Fall
 09 - St. Judy's Comet
 10 - Loves Me Like a Rock
 11 - Let Me Live In Your City (Work In Progress) (Previously Unissued)
 12 - Take Me to the Mardi Gras (Acoustic Demo) (Previously Unissued)
 13 - American Tune (Unfinished Demo) (Previously Unissued)
 14 - Loves Me Like a Rock (Acoustic Demo) (Previously Unissued)

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