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Blessed with a beautifully ethereal voice, Art Garfunkel has suffered in his post-Paul Simon career because of a choice of songs and musical settings that mistake preciousness for subtlety. Happily, his new album remedies that problem. Nine of the 16 songs on Across America, which was recorded live last year, are Simon and Garfunkel classics, and the singer renders them with grace and a characteristically sublimated passion. If the album offers few new pleasures, hearing songs like "Scarborough Fair" and "Homeward Bound" in this context... Read More delivers the reassuring joy of running into old friends in a new place. The title Across America refers to the walk across the country that Garfunkel completed during the course of 12 years, though it also derives meaning from the fact that these performances were recorded on Ellis Island. Beyond that, Garfunkel keeps his ambitions on this album aesthetic and personal. Small band arrangements, which include Michael Brecker's tenor saxophone and Eric Weissberg's guitar, mandolin and bass, provide sensitive support. Garfunkel's wife, Kim Cermak Garfunkel, sings background vocals, and his young son, James, coos his way through "The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)." James Taylor duets with Garfunkel on a lovely reading of Gerry Goffin and Carole King's "Crying in the Rain." The high point, of course, is "Bridge Over Troubled Water," a song that Garfunkel has, uniquely in the Simon and Garfunkel canon, fully defined as his own. It's not just the high note at the end, which Garfunkel handles easefully. The song's themes of reconciliation and transcendence suit Garfunkel's soul and lend his gentle virtues as a singer all the virtue and dignity of conviction. (RS 762) ANTHONY DECURTIS
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Across America 1. A Heart In New York 2. Crying In The Rain (duet With James Taylor) 3. Scarbourough Fair 4. A Poem On The Underground Wall 5. Homeward Bound 6. All I Know 7. Bright Eyes 8. El Condor Pasa (if I Could) 9. Bridge Over Troubled Water 10. Mrs. Robinson 11. The 59th Street Bridge Song (feelin' Groovy) 12. I Will 13. April Come She Will 14. The Sound Of Silence 15. Grateful 16. Goodnight, My Love
hybrid / EMI 72438 42655 26 1996 Recorded live in The Registry Hall at Ellis Island, New York City, April 12 & 13, 1996 Musicians: Eri c Weissberg - Guitars, Mandolin, Bass Warren Bernhardt - Piano, Rhodes , Synthesizer David Biglin - Synthesizers, Vocals Tommy Igoe - Drums, Percussion Kim Cermak Garfunkel - Vocals Michael Brecker - Tenor Sax James Garfunkel - Vocals Special guest: James Taylor - Vocals, Gui tar Produced by: Art Garfunkel & Stuart Breed
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