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Personnel includes: Paul Simon (vocals, nylon-string acoustic guitar, acoustic & electric guitars, six-string electric bass); Michael Riesman (conductor); Eric Gale (nylon string & electric guitars); Pete Carr (acoustic & electrical guitars); Peter Drake (pedal steel guitar, dobro); Chikapa "Ray" Phiri (guitar); Onward Brass Band (horns); Larry Knechtel (piano, organ, bass); Richard Tee (piano, keyboards, bass); Ken Asher (organ); Greg Phillinganes (synthesizers, bass); Bob James (keyboards); Joe Osborn (bass); Hal Blaine, Steve Gadd, Victor Montanez (drums); Ralph McDonald, UAKTA (percussion). Additional guest artists: The Reverend Claude Jeter, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Phoebe Snow, The Dixie Hummingbirds, The Oak Ridge Boys, Milton Nascimento, C.J. Chenier, Rockin' Dopsie & The Twisters (vocals); Quincy Jones, Dave Grusin (arrangers); J.J. Cale, Ringo Starr (guitar); Charlie McCoy (harmonica); Michael Brecker (saxophone, trumpet, synthesizer); John Faddis, Randy Brecker (trumpet); Hugh Masekela (flugelhorn); Rick Marotta (drums); Nana Vasconcelos (percussion); The Waters, Cissy Houston, The Jesse Dixon Singers, Valerie Simpson, The Harptones, The Waters Sisters (background vocals). Producers include: Paul Simon, Reginald Warburton, Stanley West, Art Garfunkel, Phil Ramone. Engineers: Roy Halee Jerry Masters, Phil Ramone. Compilation producer: Paul Simon. Includes liner notes by Kevin Howlett, Paul Zollo and Philip Glass. This 3-CD box set contains a 40-page booklet with extensive liner notes, track by track annotations, complete personnel and recording information a discography, rare photographs and is divided into three sections "The Early Years," "The Solo Years" and "Graceland And Beyond." The perfect companion to OLD FRIENDS, the Simon & Garfunkel box, this three-disc set is a marvelously comprehensive compilation of tunes by the baby boomers' Poet Laureate. You get everything from his earliest work with Garfunkel to his seminal '70s folk-rock alb |
