Still Crazy After All These Years
Studio session players, a Garfunkel reunion and his only solo number one, 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover.
Paul Simon, 1975
- Released
- October 1975
- Label
- Columbia
- Producer
- Paul Simon and Phil Ramone
Simon made his fourth solo album with Phil Ramone and a large cast of session players, with the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section on two tracks. Four songs reached the American Top 40: 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover at number one, My Little Town at number nine, Gone at Last at number 23 and the title song at number 40. My Little Town was credited to Simon & Garfunkel and put Art Garfunkel back on a Simon record for the first time since 1970. Gone at Last was a duet with Phoebe Snow.
It won Grammys for Album of the Year and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance in 1976. Herbie Hancock later recorded I Do It for Your Love with Simon for his 2005 album Possibilities.
Track listing
- Still Crazy After All These Years3:25
- My Little Town3:52
- I Do It for Your Love3:35
- 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover3:35
- Night Game2:47
- Gone at Last3:24
- Some Folks' Lives Roll Easy3:10
- Have a Good Time3:25
- You're Kind3:23
- Silent Eyes3:57
Personnel
- Paul Simon vocals, guitars
- Barry Beckett Fender Rhodes, piano
- Bob James string and woodwind arrangements
- Richard Tee piano
- Hugh McCracken guitar
- John Tropea electric guitar
- Joe Beck electric guitar
- Tony Levin bass
- David Hood bass
- Steve Gadd drums
- Roger Hawkins drums
- Ralph MacDonald percussion
- Toots Thielemans harmonica
- Michael Brecker tenor saxophone
- Phil Woods alto saxophone
- Art Garfunkel vocals
- Phoebe Snow vocals
- Patti Austin backing vocals
- Valerie Simpson backing vocals
- Phil Ramone co-producer
More from Paul Simon
The Paul Simon Songbook (1965), Paul Simon (1972), There Goes Rhymin' Simon (1973), Graceland (1986), The Rhythm of the Saints (1990)
Sources
- Still Crazy After All These Years, Wikipedia
- Still Crazy After All These Years, Discogs