The Concert in Hyde Park

Huge Paul Simon fan. This recording captures his genius showmanship and incredible arrangement, which lends the music his patented sophistication. But as any Simon fan has surely noticed, his voice is leveling out with age and the recording quality here doesn’t help him out much. To paraphrase Yoda, “when 900 years you reach, look as good you will not.” The real value to the recording is weight of the moment - the celebration of Graceland, with many of its original players, before a live audience. For that alone, this is well worth the purchase fan for any Paul Simon fan, but in general it does not surpass the liveliness of the 1990’s Concert in the Park album which includes Hugh Masekala (featured here) AND the incomparable Miriam Makeba <3!!

Thank you!

Pretty good, but this practice of charging for "introductions" is absurd. Fine music. Fine band. The best is the live "Graceland" stuff and a great interpretation of "The Sounds of Silence."

Rhymin' Paul Simon caught two-timin' on his fans who holla, all to capture that almighty dolla!!!

Thank you iTunes for including in the snippet a piece of the song where lyrics were omitted by one of the artists. Otherwise, I may have bought this song and been unhappy with my purchase. "I've never been laid so low."

The songs, of course, are flawless. But it sounds like it was recorded with a handheld cassette recorder, not plugged into the sound board.

I havent heard any of the songs yet (because they're not available yet) but I like the album cover art - colorful, easy to read, with a nice dramatic sky. I'm looking forward to hearing The Sound of Silence. I have collected 12 digital versions of that song, all with Paul Simon, some acoustic, some electric, some in concert, some with Art Garfunkel, etc. - They're all quite different and they're all quite good!

I recently saw Art Garfunkle & I saw Paul Simon on the Graceland tour. Paul was awesome, art not so much!!!!!!