Name: One Trick Pony
Brand: Paul Simon

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

19075835111

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2018-08-31

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Sony

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

190758351117

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Paul Simon

Genre US

60s & 70s

Label US

Paul Simon is an American singer-songwriter who was born on October 13, 1941 in Newark, New Jersey. He gained fame as one part of a popular music duo before embarking on a successful solo career. In 2001, he was honored with induction into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame as a performer.
Throughout his personal life, Paul has been married multiple times. His first marriage was to Peggy Harper and they have a son together. He then had a brief marriage to Carrie Fisher in the early 1980s which ended in divorce. Currently, he is married to folk singer Edie Brickell.
With his distinctive voice and songwriting talent, Paul Simon has left an indelible mark on the music industry. His contributions continue to be celebrated by fans worldwide.

Paul Simon's One Trick Pony. Available here on LP.

Though it was released to coincide with the opening of the film One-Trick Pony, which Paul Simon wrote and starred in, the One-Trick Pony album is not a soundtrack, as it is sometimes categorized, at least, not exactly. If it were, it might contain the Paul Simon song "Soft Parachutes" and other non-Simon music featured in the movie. Instead, this is a studio album containing many of the movie songs, some of them in the same performances (two were cut live at the Agora Club in Cleveland). The record is not billed as a soundtrack, but a sleeve note reads, "The music on this Compact Disc was created for the Paul Simon Movie 'One-Trick Pony.'" Anyway, if Simon was in fact writing songs for Jonah, his movie character (as seems true of songs like "Jonah," "God Bless the Absentee," and "Long, Long Day"), he intended that character to take a somewhat less considered lyrical viewpoint than Paul Simon generally does, but to be even more enamored of light jazz fusion than Paul Simon had been on his last album, Still Crazy After All These Years. Tasty licks abound from the fretwork of Eric Gale, Hiram Bullock, and Hugh McCracken, and the rhythm section of Steve Gadd, Tony Levin, and Richard Tee is equally in the groove. This is the closest thing to a band album Simon ever made, and it contains some of his most rhythmic and energetic singing.

One Trick Pony

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