There is little left to say about the career of Paul Simon. He was one half of the legendary duo of Simon & Garfunkel, plus his solo career has resulted in dozens of hit albums and singles. Throw in eight Grammy Awards, <\/i>two inductions into The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, induction into the Songwriters Hall Of Fame, induction into the American Academy Of Arts And Sciences, 39 BMI Awards, honored by by Time Magazine <\/i>in 2006 <\/i>as \u201c100 People Who Shaped The World,\u201d and a Kennedy Center Honors recipient and you have one of the most famous and respected figures in American music.<\/p>\n
Now Legacy Records has released Paul Simon \u2013 The Complete Albums Collection, <\/i>which is a 15 disc box set containing his 12 studio and two live concert albums. They cover his entire solo career from 1965\u2019s The Paul Simon Songbook <\/i>to 2011\u2019s So Beautiful, Or So What.<\/i><\/p>\n
Coinciding with the box set release is a one disc compilation titled Over The Bridge Of Time: A Paul Simon Retrospective (1964-2011). <\/i>While all the material has been available on a number of occasions, it is the first time that Simon & Garfunkel material has been combined with his better-known solo work. The songs are sequenced chronologically beginning with Simon & Garfunkel\u2019s first hit, \u201cSounds Of Silence\u201d and ending with the recent \u201cLove And Hard Times.\u201d<\/p>\n
There is nothing new here but the 20 tracks are a wonderful ride through his career. \u201cThe Boxer,\u201d \u201cCecelia,\u201d and \u201cBridge Over Troubled Water\u201d set up such well-known solo songs as \u201cMe And Julio Down By The Schoolyard,\u201d \u201c50 Way To Leave Your Lover,\u201d \u201cSlip Slidin\u2019 Away,\u201d \u201cLate In The Evening,\u201d and \u201cYou Can Call Me Al.\u201d <\/p>\n
Each of the songs stands on their own but they also make you yearn for more. Simon\u2019s career is filled with well-known and not so famous material and to really appreciate his genius, it is necessary to dig deep into his catalogue of albums.<\/p>\n
Still, Over The Bridge Of Time: A Paul Simon Retrospective (1964-2011) <\/i>serves the purpose of whetting the appetite with many of the definitive songs of the last half-century. It presents Paul Simon at his most memorable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":31654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[5719],"rating":[5617],"class_list":["post-43361","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-paul-simon","rating-rating-b-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/43361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/43361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43361"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=43361"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=43361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}