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Peter Gabriel is set to release an orchestral covers album featuring the likes of Radiohead, Arcade Fire, Elbow and Paul Simon.

Entitled ‘Scratch My Back’ the album is reported to be a “song swap” with a host of “extremely legendary artists” set to cover each other’s material. Читать далее »

Tickets to forthcoming show that will take place on October 29th and 30th in MSG, New York are still available!

You can order them here!

October 29 lineup:

Crosby Stills and Nash
Jackson Browne
Bonnie Raitt
James Taylor

Paul Simon - Simon & Garfunkel
Dion
Little Anthony & the Imperials

Stevie Wonder
John Legend
Sting
Smokey Robinson
Jeff Beck (”Superstition”)

Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band
Darlene Love
Sam Moore

October 30 lineup:

Aretha Franklin
Annie Lennox
Lenny Kravitz

Metallica
Lou Reed
Ozzy Osbourne

U2
TBA

Art Garfunkel will give a solo show in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador (Canada) on April 9, 2010 at Mile One Centre.

Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Tickets go on sale Monday, November 2nd at 12 p.m. Tickets are $60, $65 and $70. They can be purchased at the Mile One Centre Box Office; by phoning (709) 576-7657, (toll free) at 1-800-361-4595 or online at www.admission.com.

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The song “Horchata” from the forthcoming album “Contra” is available online on the band’s official website. The album is going to be released on January 12th, 2010 via XL Records.

Tracklist:

1. Horchata

2. White Sky
3. Holiday
4. California English
5. Taxi Cab
6. Run
7. Cousins
8. Giving Up the Gun
9. Diplomat’s Son
10. I Think Ur a Contra

Singer-songwriter Paul Simon tried to lend a little harmony to the raucous health care debate Wednesday by pushing for a health care overhaul with Democratic leaders of Congress.Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid couldn’t resist musical references in the appearance with the popular performer who advocates improving health care for children.

“If there were ever a bridge that we need over these troubled waters, it’s passing comprehensive health care reform,” Reid said, describing how children have fared in the country’s health care delivery system.

“Bridge Over Troubled Water” was a hit for the duo Simon & Garfunkel, written by Simon. Simon joined Reid, House speaker Nancy Pelosi and various child advocates to push for health care changes at an event on the Capitol lawn.

Simon co-founded the Children’s Health Fund, which provides medical care for poor and underserved kids. He said the fund believes a health care measure “would go a long way to fill the gap in health care — the gap that these children live in and suffer in.”

Simon urged lawmakers to improve health care for children: “Poor kids can’t vote. Neither can they afford to hire lobbyists to plead their cause or to describe their situation.”

Paul Simon is cast as the voice of the great Yankee player Thurmon Munson who died in a tragic plane crash in the animated movie “Henry And Me”. The film is to be released in March 2010.

Larry Knechtel, a one-time collaborator of Elvis Presley’s and an accomplished sideman in both the rock and country worlds, died Thursday, Aug. 20 at the age of 69. Knechtel, who won a 1970 Grammy award for his arrangement of Simon and Garfunkel’s enduring ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water,’ succumbed to an apparent heart attack, according to a report by his local newspaper, the Yakima Herald Republic.

As a session keyboardist and bassist, Knechtel performed with a wide array of artists like the Beach Boys, Elvis Costello, the Doors, Billy Joel, Hank Williams, Jr., Randy Newman and Ray Charles. A member of 1970s soft rock giants Bread, Knechtel was cited early on for helping Phil Spector create his legendary ‘Wall of Sound.’ He remained active up until his passing, performing on the Dixie Chicks’ 2006 Grammy-winning album, ‘Taking the Long Way’.

On October 13th Harper Simon, the son of musician Paul Simon and Paul’s first wife, Peggy Harper, will release his self-titled debut album on his own Tulsi Records.

He produced the album as well. For his debut Harper enlisted legendary producer Bob Johnston (Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen) to help him put together a band for a series of recording sessions in Nashville.

The band included Charlie McCoy (Bob Dylan’s ‘Blonde on Blonde’, ‘Nashville Skyline’) pedal steel player Lloyd Green (The Byrds ‘Sweetheart of the Rodeo’), drummer Gene Chrisman (Dusty in Memphis) bass player Mike Leech (Elvis Presley’s ‘Suspicious Minds’), pianist Hargus “Pig” Robbins, (Patsy Cline’s ‘Walkin’ After Midnight’, ‘Blonde on Blonde’) and Al Perkins (‘Exile on Main Street’).

“Working with Bob Johnston and all those Nashville session guys from the 60’s was completely fascinating and totally satisfying,” recalls Harper in his bio posted on Myspace. “The musicianship was extraordinary; their attitude towards me was so supportive. It was very special.”

One of the tracks from the album is available now.

Harper Simon - Shooting Star (”Harper Simon”, 2009)