Paul Simon: Songs From The Capeman (Expanded + Remastered) CD Track Listing
Paul Simon
Songs From The Capeman (Expanded + Remastered) (1997)
Songs From The Capeman (Expanded + Remastered)\n2004 Warner Strategic Marketing\n\nOriginally Released November 18, 1997\nRemastered + Expanded CD Edition Released July 13, 2004\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: During the production of The Rhythm of the Saints, Paul Simon latched upon the idea of turning the story of Salvador Agron -- a '50s Puerto Rican hoodlum nicknamed the Capeman who was convicted of stabbing two kids to death during a New York street fight; during his prison term, he educated himself and turned into a poet and activist -- into a musical. Collaborating with poet Derek Walcott on the lyrics and book, Simon worked on the musical for seven years, writing a set of songs that evoked doo-wop, '50s rock & roll and Puerto Rican music. A few months before the Broadway premier of The Capeman, Simon -- who was not performing in the musical -- released Songs from the Capeman, an album that functioned as a calling card for the play. The record suggests what a complex and ambitious musical The Capeman may be, but it doesn't succeed on its own terms. Simon's songs have the narrative drive of a stage musical, but are littered with idiosyncratic, conversational flourishes, profanities and self-consciously literate word-play that keep them insular and nearly impenetrable. Similarly, the music is forced and labored -- it often sounds like he has to push the melodies into unnatural paths -- and it never has the graceful, joyously organic spirit of doo-wop and Puerto Rican music, which is what he needed to capture in order for The Capeman to succeed. Instead, the project is a cerebral exercise, not only in writing but also in white liberal guilt, and it's an exhausting one at that. -- Stephen Thomas Erlewine
This folk cd contains 16 tracks and runs 66min 22sec.
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Category
: Music
Tags
: music songs tracks folk Rock
- Paul Simon - Adios Hermanos (04:42)
- Paul Simon - Born In Puerto Rico (05:03)
- Paul Simon - Satin Summer Nights (05:45)
- Paul Simon - Bernadette (03:33)
- Paul Simon - The Vampires (05:14)
- Paul Simon - Quality (04:18)
- Paul Simon - Can I Forgive Him (06:02)
- Paul Simon - Sunday Afternoon (03:25)
- Paul Simon - Killer Wants To Go To College (01:51)
- Paul Simon - Time Is An Ocean (05:23)
- Paul Simon - Virgil (02:49)
- Paul Simon - Killer Wants To Go To College II (02:09)
- Paul Simon - Trailways Bus (05:22)
- Paul Simon - Shoplifting Clothes (Unreleased) (03:38)
- Paul Simon - Born In Puerto Rico / Paul Simon with Jos
- Paul Simon - Can I Forgive Him (Original Demo) (01:56)
