First Listen: Paul Simon, 'In The Blue Light'
Revision's redemptive potential permeates Paul Simon's 14th solo album. In the Blue Light features ten recordings of old works, newly considered.
On his 2011 album , released a track called "Rewrite." Like the vast majority of the venerable singer-songwriter's work, it's a character study shot through with elements of autobiography. The song's working-class Vietnam vet tinkering with a screenplay after midnight is clearly not our contented, culture-shaping millionaire pop star. Yet Simon, too, is a rewriter, more interested in placing his New York City-bred poetics within new musical settings as with crafting monuments to his own genius. The most telling moment of "Rewrite" (a song with lyrics that Simon first published in 2008)
