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For ‘In the Blue Light,’ Paul Simon hires Bill Frisell, Wynton Marsalis and others to revisit several old and more obscure pieces of his catalogue. De(blue)lightful!

Paul Simon's 'In the Blue Light' is his fourteenth solo studio album recorded with among others Bill Frisell, Wynton Marsalis, Bryce Dessner from The National and the yMusic sextet and released on September 7, 2018 by Legacy Recordings.

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Rolling Stone



But leave it to Simon—who made Nile Rodgers play 90-something guitar takes for one session—to redo songs in ways that don’t exactly overhaul the originals.

The Independent



...they are contemplative and melancholic one moment, silly and absurdist the next The Times

is a strange choice for a songwriter of his stature: a reworking of songs he felt were overlooked or not quite right first time

Paul Simon - In the Blue Light

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We remember John Lee Hooker. ‘Boom Boom Hooker’

This day (June 21, 2001), in Los Altos, California, died John Lee Hooker, an American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist.

Tracklist :

1 . Boom Boom (1966)

2 . w/ Robert Cray - Mr Lucky

3 . w/ Carlos Santana — Things Gonna Change

4 . w/ Ry Cooder (1992)

5 . w/ Bonnie Raitt - I'M In The Mood (1991)

6 . w/ Eric Clapton & The Rolling Stones – Boogie Chillen (1989)

7 . Baby Lee

8 . We'Re Gonna Do The Shout (1980)

9 . w/ The Groundhogs - I'm Leaving

Tracklist :

Boom Boom . One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer . I'm in the mood . Dimples . Boogie Chillen . Hobo Blues . Crawlin' King Snake . Shake It Baby . Sugar Mama . No Shoes .

Thanks to the following musicians : 1johnlangford2 . achatscheibe . BenTV . Bruce Lindquist . Bunk Man . Burnedmyfrets . Călin Cyfer . ChilwellOpenMic .

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