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Paul Simon - So Beautiful or So What

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May 6, 2011 Updated Dec 16, 2011

In his 70th year, Simon shows that age is no barrier to producing great music...

Track List:

1. 'Getting Ready for Christmas Day' – 4:06
2. 'The Afterlife' – 3:40
3. 'Dazzling Blue' – 4:32
4. 'Rewrite' – 3:49
5. 'Love and Hard Times' – 4:09
6. 'Love Is Eternal Sacred Light' – 4:02
7. 'Amulet' – 1:36
8. 'Questions for the Angels' – 3:49
9. 'Love and Blessings' – 4:18
10. 'So Beautiful or So What' – 4:07
11. 'So Beautiful or So What (Live Rehearsal Version)' – 4:10 [Download-only bonus track available on vinyl edition]

External Review:

"So Beautiful or So What shouldn’t need an endorsement from some other rock icon. It not only comes from Paul Simon, but it is fully the equal of There Goes Rhymin’ Simon or Still Crazy After All These Years or Graceland. It may be less exuberant and therefore harder to love at first, but it delivers the goods just as surely. And with Paul Simon now old enough to face the ultimate questions and to do so with a stunning musical sophistication, it may just be a complete classic".

[ Will Layman, Popmatters ]

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Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Simon's international fame and success began as part of the duo Simon & Garfunkel, launched in 1964 with musical partner Art Garfunkel. Simon wrote most of the pair's songs, including three that reached No. 1 on the U.S. singles charts: "The Sound of Silence", "Mrs. Robinson", and "Bridge Over Troubled...

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