Still Crazy After All These Years

Infobox Album |
Name = Still Crazy After All These Years
Type = Album
Artist = Paul Simon

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Released = October 25, 1975
Recorded = 1975
Genre = Rock
Length = 36:25 (original album)
45:33 (2004 CD reissue)
Label = Columbia Records, then Warner Brothers
Producer = Paul Simon, Phil Ramone
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://wc09.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:a9fqxqu5ld6e~T0 link]
*Robert Christgau (B) [http://robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=1056&name=Paul+Simon link]
*"Rolling Stone" (mixed) [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/paulsimon/albums/album/214463/review/5944919/still_crazy_after_all_these_years link] |
Last album = ""
(1974)
This album = "Still Crazy After All These Years"
(1975)
Next album = "Greatest Hits, Etc."
(1977)

"Still Crazy After All These Years" is an album and a song by Paul Simon.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Paul Simon

#"Still Crazy After All These Years" - 3:26
#"My Little Town" - 3:51
#"I Do It For Your Love" - 3:35
#"50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" - 3:37
#"Night Game" - 2:58
#"Gone at Last" - 3:40
#"Some Folks' Lives Roll Easy" - 3:14
#"Have a Good Time" - 3:26
#"You're Kind" - 3:20
#"Silent Eyes" - 4:12

Bonus tracks2004 CD reissue

11. "Slip Slidin' Away" (Demo) - 5:30
12. "Gone at Last" (Original Demo) w/ The Jessy Dixon Singers - 4:38

Personnel

Paul Simon - vocals, guitar
*John Tropea - electric guitar
*Patti Austin - background vocals
*Art Garfunkel - vocals
*Phoebe Snow - background vocals
*Joe Beck - electric guitar
*Michael Brecker - saxophone soloist
*Bob James - electric piano
*David Sanborn - saxophone
*Grady Tate - drums
*Pete Carr - electric guitar
*Sivuca - accordion, vocals
*Ralph MacDonald - percussion
*Chicago Community Choir - background vocals
*Barry Beckett - electric piano
*Eddie Daniels - saxophone
*Gordon Edwards - bass
*Jerry Friedman - electric guitar
*Steve Gadd - drums
*Roger Hawkins - drums
*David Hood - bass
*The Jessy Dixon Singers - background vocals
*Tony Levin - bass
*Hugh McCracken - guitar
*Leon Pendarvis - piano
*Valerie Simpson - background vocals
*Richard Tee - piano
*Toots Thielemans - harmonica
*Phil Woods - saxophone
*Ken Asher - organ, electric piano
*Dave Matthews - horn arrangements

Chart positions

Notes

Recorded in 1975, this album produced four US Top 40 hits, "Gone at Last" (#23), "My Little Town" (#9, credited to Simon & Garfunkel), "50 Ways To Leave Your Lover" (#1) and the title track (#40). It won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1976 as did "Graceland" in 1987. In Simon's acceptance speech for the Album of the Year award, on February 28, he jokingly thanked Stevie Wonder, who had won the award the two previous years for "Innervisions" and "Fulfillingness' First Finale", for not releasing an album that year. (Wonder won the award again for "Songs in the Key of Life" in 1977.)

The liner notes for "My Little Town" contain this quote from "Crow" by Ted Hughes:

:"To hatch a crow, a black rainbow":"Bent in emptiness"::"over emptiness":"But flying"

"My Little Town" reunited Simon with former partner Art Garfunkel for the first time since 1970.

Simon credits studio drummer Steve Gadd with creating the unique drum beat that became the hook for "50 Ways To Leave Your Lover".

Rosemary Clooney recorded a jazz-flavored version of "Still Crazy After All These Years" for her album "Still on the Road" (1993).