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Hearts and Bones is the sixth solo studio album by Paul Simon. It was released in 1983.
The album was originally intended to be called Think Too Much, but Mo Ostin, president of Warner Bros. Records at the time, persuaded Simon to change it to Hearts and Bones.
The album was written and recorded following Simon & Garfunkel's The Concert in Central Park in 1981, and the world tour of 1982-1983.
Several songs intended for Think Too Much were previewed on tour, and Art Garfunkel worked on some of the songs with Simon in the studio, with an intention that the finished product would be an all-new Simon & Garfunkel studio album.
The album, especially the title song, was a reflection on Paul's relationship with actress Carrie Fisher, and Paul felt that it was too personal to be a Simon & Garfunkel album, instead deciding that it should be a solo album.
This greatly annoyed Garfunkel and ensured that there would never again be another Simon & Garfunkel album. Garfunkel left the project and Simon erased all his vocals and reworked the material into a solo album.
Hearts and Bones was a commercial disaster, the lowest-charting new studio album of Paul Simon's career. It is also his most personal collection of songs, one of his most ambitious, and one of his best.
It retains a personal vision, one largely devoted to the challenges of middle-aged life, among them a renewed commitment to love; the title song was a notable testament to new romance, while "Train in the Distance" reflected on romantic discord.
Elsewhere, "The Late Great Johnny Ace" was his meditation on John Lennon's murder and how it related to the mythology of pop music. Musically, Simon moved forward and backward simultaneously, taking off from the jazz fusion style of his last two albums into his old loves of doo wop and rock & roll while also incorporating current sounds with such new collaborators as dance music producer Nile Rodgers and minimalist composer Philip Glass. T
he result was Simon's most impressive collection in a decade and the most underrated album in his catalog.
Side one
1. Allergies - 4:37
2. Hearts and Bones - 5:37
3. When Numbers Get Serious - 3:25
4. Think Too Much (b) - 2:44
5. Song About the Moon - 4:07
Side two
1. Think Too Much (a) - 3:05
2. Train in the Distance - 5:11
3. Rene and Georgette Magritte with Their Dog after the War - 3:44
4. Cars Are Cars - 3:15
5. The Late Great Johnny Ace - 4:45
Personnel
- Paul Simon – lead vocals, backing vocals, acoustic guitar (1, 2, 4, 5, 10), electric guitars (8), LinnDrum programming (9)
- David Nichtern – Synclavier programming
- Greg Phillinganes – Fender Rhodes (1, 5, 10)
- Rob Mounsey – synthesizers (1), vocoder (5)
- Rob Sabino – synthesizers (1, 9), acoustic piano (8)
- Richard Tee – Fender Rhodes (2, 7, 8), keyboards (3), acoustic piano (4), synthesizers (8)
- Tom Coppola – Synclavier (3-6)
- Wells Christie – Synclavier (8)
- Michael Boddicker – synthesizers (10)
- Michael Riesman – synthesizers (10), orchestra conductor (10)
- Dean Parks – electric guitars (1, 4, 5, 7, 10), hi-strung guitar (2)
- Al Di Meola – guitar solo (1)
- Eric Gale – electric guitars (3)
- Nile Rodgers – electric guitars (6, 9), LinnDrum programming (9)
- Sid McGinnis – electric guitars (10)
- Anthony Jackson – contrabass guitar (1-5, 7, 8, 9)
- Marcus Miller – bass (4, 7)
- Bernard Edwards – bass (6)
- Steve Gadd – drums (1, 2, 4, 5, 10)
- Steve Ferrone – additional drums (1), drums (3, 6)
- Jeff Porcaro – drums (7)
- Airto Moreira – percussion (1-4, 7)
- Mike Mainieri – marimba (2, 4), vibraphone (2, 7)
- Mark Rivera – alto saxophone (7)
- Peter Gordon – French horn (7)
- George Marge – bass clarinet (10)
- Carol Wincenc – flute (10)
- Jesse Levy – cello (7)
- Frederick Zlotkin – cello (10)
- Jill Jaffe – viola (10)
- Marin Alsop – violin (10)
- David Matthews – horn arrangements (1, 9)
- George Delerue – orchestrations (8)
- Philip Glass – orchestrations (10)
- The Harptones – backing vocals (8), BGV arrangements (8)
The uncredited horn section "Allergies" and "Cars Are Cars" are Mark Rivera (saxophones), Jon Faddis and Alan Rubin (trumpets).
Production
- Paul Simon – producer
- Russ Titelman – producer
- Roy Halee – producer, engineer, mixing
- Lenny Waronker – co-producer (1, 5, 10)
- Wayne Yurgelin – engineer
- Tom Bates – digital engineer
- Ken Deane – second engineer
- Stuart Gitlin – second engineer
- Dave Greenberg – second engineer
- Andy Hoffman – second engineer
- Eric Korte – second engineer
- Dan Nash – second engineer
- Terry Rosiello – second engineer
- Jimmy Santis – second engineer
- Jason Corsaro – additional engineer
- Jim Dougherty – additional engineer
- Lee Herschberg – additional engineer
- Mark Linett – additional engineer
- Gene Paul – additional engineer
- Greg Calbi – mastering at Sterling Sound (New York City, New York)
- Kimberly Boyle – production assistant
- Julie Hooker – production assistant
- Jeffrey Kent Ayeroff – art direction
- Paula Greif – art direction
- Jeri McManus – design
- E.K.T.V. – photography
- Arthur Elgort – inner sleeve photography
Notes
Release: 1983
Format: LP
Genre: Folk Rock
Label: Warner Bros. Records
Catalog# 92-3942-1
Vinyl: Excellent
Cover: Excellent
Prijs: €10,00
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