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Paul Simon's third solo album unifies the varied threads running through its predecessors--confessional ballads, wily story songs, agnostic spirituals and snapshots of modern life, circa 1975, are extensions of the models on his self-titled debut and--There Goes Rhymin' Simon. Here, Simon and producer Phil Ramone establish a more cohesive, explicitly urban setting that burnishes the artist's acoustic folk accents to spotlight his sophistication as an inventive composer and, as always, deft wordsmith. Included is his last great collaboration with Art Garfunkel, the bittersweet "My Little Town," a pop gospel romp with Phoebe Snow on "Gone at Last," and the sly adulterer's solution of "Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover" (arguably the antithesis of Willie Dixon's classic "29 Ways"), along with the tender "I Do It for Your Love" and the woozy, dissolute "Have a Good Time." Best of all, of course, is the brilliant title song, shifting from anecdotal verse to soaring bridge and colored by keening strings and Phil Woods's knowing tenor-sax solo. Simon was crazy, like a fox.
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TRACK LISTINGS
1 Still Crazy After All These Years 3:26
2 My Little Town 3:51
3 I Do It For Your Love 3:35
4 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover 3:37
5 Night Game 2:58
6 Gone At Last 3:40
7 Some Folks' Lives Roll Easy 3:14
8 Have a Good Time 3:26
9 You're Kind 3:20
10 Silent Eyes 4:12
Bonus Track
1 Slip Slidin' Away previously unreleased / Bonus Track / Demo / Demo Version 5:30
2 Gone At Last previously unreleased / Bonus Track / Original Demo / Demo Version 4:38
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