Still Crazy After All These Years | ||||
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Released | October 17, 1975[1] | |||
Recorded | May and June 1975 | |||
Studio | A&R Recording, New York City[2] | |||
Genre | Folk rock, pop rock, soul | |||
Length | 35:24 | |||
Label | Columbia | |||
Producer | Paul Simon, Phil Ramone | |||
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Christgau's Record Guide | B[6] |
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Entertainment Weekly | B+[8] |
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Still Crazy After All These Years is the fourth solo studio album by Paul Simon. Recorded and released in 1975, the album produced four U.S. Top 40 hits: "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" (No. 1), "Gone at Last" (No. 23, credited to Paul Simon/Phoebe Snow), "My Little Town" (No. 9, credited to Simon & Garfunkel), and the title track (No. 40). It won two Grammy Awards for Album of the Year and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance in 1976.
"My Little Town" reunited Simon with former partner Art Garfunkel on record for the first time since 1970, while "Gone at Last" was a duet between Simon and Phoebe Snow. Two tracks featured members of the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section as a backing band.
The title track has been recorded by Rosemary Clooney (on her 1993 album Still on the Road), Ray Charles (on his 1993 album My World), Karen Carpenter (on her self-titled solo album released posthumously in 1996), Willie Nelson (on the soundtrack of the 2000 motion picture Space Cowboys), and Robert Ellis (on his 2016 self-titled solo album).
[With] Simon enlisting a crack squad of New York jazz session players for a record that was clearly more personal than anything that had gone before.
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