PAUL SIMON — Still Crazy After All These Years

Jazz music community with review and forums

PAUL SIMON - Still Crazy After All These Years cover
4.46 | 3 ratings | 1 review
Buy this album from MMA partners

Album · 1975

Tracklist

A1 Still Crazy After All These Years 3:25
A2 My Little Town 3:52
A3 I Do It For Your Love 3:35
A4 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover 3:35
A5 Night Game 2:47
B1 Gone At Last 3:24
B2 Some Folks' Lives Roll Easy 3:10
B3 Have A Good Time 3:25
B4 You're Kind 3:23
B5 Silent Eyes 3:57

Line-up/Musicians

Accordion – Sivuca
Acoustic Guitar – Paul Simon (tracks: A2 to A4, B4), Hugh McCracken
Backing Vocals – Patti Austin, Phoebe Snow, Valerie Simpson, Jessy Dixon Singers, Valerie Simpson, The Chicago Community Choir
Bass – Tony Levin (tracks: A3 to A5, B2 to B5), David Hood, Gordon Edwards
Drums – Steve Gadd (tracks: A3, A4, B2 to B5), Roger Hawkins, Grady Tate
Electric Guitar – Hugh McCracken (tracks: A4, B2, B3), Joe Beck (tracks: A3, B3, B4), Pete Carr, Jerry Friedman, John Tropea, Paul Simon
Electric Piano – Barry Beckett, Ken Asher, Bob James
Harmonica – Toots Thielemans
Organ – Ken Asher
Percussion – Ralph MacDonald (tracks: A2 to A4, B1, B3)
Piano – Barry Beckett, Richard Tee, Leon Pendarvis
Saxophone – David Sanborn, Eddie Daniels, Mike Brecker, Phil Woods
Vocals – Art Garfunkel, Paul Simon, Sivuca, Phoebe Snow

About this release

Columbia ‎– PC 33540 (US)

Thanks to snobb for the addition

Buy PAUL SIMON - STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS music

More places to buy jazz & PAUL SIMON music

PAUL SIMON STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS reviews

Specialists/collaborators reviews

No PAUL SIMONSTILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS reviews posted by specialists/experts yet.

Members reviews

Matti P
If anyone, PAUL SIMON is an artist who needs no introduction -- but surprisingly he has no reviews here yet! Billboard chart topper Still Crazy After All These Years was his third solo album after the extremely succesful Simon & Garfunkel partnership (the 1965 debut The Paul Simon Songbook is usually forgotten, partly because most of its songs later became known as S&G songs). Still Crazy also was his most succesful and critically acclaimed solo album until the milestone pop classic Graceland (1986); it won two Grammy Awards, Album Of The Year and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance.

My own relationship with Simon's solo output began with compilations rather than individual albums, so I'm not very good remembering the source albums for individual songs of the 70's, but looking at the track lists, this album is the real winner for me, too. It contains four US Top 40 hits, and apart from the rollicking and Gospel-flavoured 'Gone at Last' which I'm not so fond of, all of them would enter my own Best Of Paul Simon list. The title track about a haphazard meeting of an old lover is truly charming. Dreamily laid-back and yet very passionate, with a sophisticated arrangement featuring Michael Brecker's a brilliant saxophone solo.

The biggest hit (No. 1 in the US) was '50 Ways to Leave Your Lover' where the failed affair melancholy is cleverly contrasted with a catchy chorus of amusing rhymes ("Hop on the bus, Gus", "Drop off the key, Lee", etc.). And No. 9 hit 'My Little Town' was a nostalgic re-union of Simon & Garfunkel.

The rest of the album also has great songwriting. 'I Do It for Your Love' is a peaceful ballad in the vein of the title song, admittedly minor in comparison but too forgotten, for it has some really beautiful melodies in it. The hit-filled first side ends with another forgotten little gem, 'Night Game'. Even Toots Thielemans' harmonica solo is frail enough not to ruin the exceptional nocturnal delicacy.

I'm personally fond of the slow and moody 'Some Folks Lives Roll Easy' and its arrangement featuring romantic strings. 'Have a Good Time' was the album's only song I now had no clear memory of. Well, it is pretty mediocre and forgettable, and I'm not great friends with the sharp horns. 'You're Kind' is a small and ironic song about a brief affair, and my second least fave. The last song 'Silent Eyes' has Gospel-oriented passion almost comparable to 'Bridge Over Troubled Water'. Leon Pendarvis on piano is excellent, and so is Paul Simon himself on vocals backed by a Gospel choir. A bit cheesy perhaps, but beautiful.

This finely produced album is a definitive classic and a must in Paul Simon's impressive body of work, counting also Simon & Garfunkel.

Ratings only

  • Mssr_Renard
  • Vano

Write/edit review

You must be logged in to write or edit review

JMA TOP 5 Jazz ALBUMS

Rating by members, ranked by custom algorithm
Albums with 30 ratings and more
A Love Supreme Post Bop
JOHN COLTRANE
Buy this album from our partners
Kind of Blue Cool Jazz
MILES DAVIS
Buy this album from our partners
The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady Progressive Big Band
CHARLES MINGUS
Buy this album from our partners
Blue Train Hard Bop
JOHN COLTRANE
Buy this album from our partners
My Favorite Things Hard Bop
JOHN COLTRANE
Buy this album from our partners

New Jazz Artists

New Jazz Releases

Horns Locked Hard Bop
NICK HEMPTON
Buy this album from MMA partners
Solstice Post-Fusion Contemporary
PAOLO RUSSO
Buy this album from MMA partners
Why Not? Eclectic Fusion
ZAKK JONES
Buy this album from MMA partners
More new releases

New Jazz Online Videos

All I Want For Christmas Is You
DAVID HAZELTINE
js· 1 day ago
Chicken
QUATUOR EBÈNE
js· 2 days ago
Det er en egen lomme
THE LEIF
js· 2 days ago
More videos

New JMA Jazz Forum Topics

More in the forums

New Site interactions

More...

Latest Jazz News

members-submitted

More in the forums

Social Media

Follow us