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Art Garfunkel - Across America Audio CD

A fair review of the Art Garfunkel "Across America" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Art Garfunkel reviews here, or go back to the Art Garfunkel tabs.

Art Garfunkel Band: Art Garfunkel
Title: Across America
Rating:
Release Date: 1997-05-27
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Heart in New York 2: Crying in the Rain - Art Garfunkel, James Taylor 3: Scarborough Fair 4: Poem on the Underground Wall 5: Homeward Bound 6: All I Know 7: Bright Eyes 8: Condor Pasa (If I Could) 9: Bridge Over Troubled Water 10: Mrs. Robinson 11: 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) 12: I Will 13: April Come She Will 14: Sound of Silence 15: Grateful 16: Goodnight My Love

Voice Of America
Artie, is much more than just the "other" guy, he is a fantasic singer and a great performer in his own right. Simon and ???
Art Garfunkel, still has to deal with the fact that he was the "other" guy who stood on stage and made all those great records with Paul Simon between 1957 and 1969. Go name another pop singer that spent many years walking across America. Art Garfunkel, did accomplish this amazing feat, this gifted man is really something special.

This CD is from two performances at Ellis Island in April 1996. Half of the 16 tracks on this CD are from the sixties and Artie's time as one half of S & G, the others are culled from his wonderful pop records of the seventies and eighties. The band is led by Eric {"Dueling Banjos"} Weisberg and is a brisk mix of guitars, keyboards, saxophone and percussion. Mrs. Kim Cermak Garfunkel: provides vocal harmonies and James Taylor duets with Art on "Crying In The Rain. " James Garfunkel, sings a "fuzzy-hair" duet with his dad on the crowd-pleasing classic: "Feelin' Groovy. "

I attended one of Art's concerts in 1999, and I was not prepared for the excellence of this performer. We have one of America's greatest voices, right here. Art Garfunkel, should be mentioned along side the finest American vocalists of our time, he is one of the great ones. Yes, we have all listened to: "Bridge Over Troubled Water" a few hundred times since 1969, but it is still something to hear this man sing it. "Bright Eyes" is one of the best pop songs ever produced, "Grateful" is a tune, that I was unaware of, it is magnificent and very moving, why wasn't it a big hit single?

Art Garfunkel, can certainly hold his own on disc, or on the concert stage. . . here is the evidence. Travel across America, right in your favorite comfortable place, but you can't accomplish that journey without this great CD.
4 Stars!!!
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Beautiful
It has some of the favorites, but many unknown songs. I loved this cd. My favorite is Grateful - so beautiful.


Last song cut short
I gave 2 star for this CD not because of the musical quality. . but because the last song "Goodnight My Love" is cut short on this CD.
After watching the live performance on cable, I rushed out to buy this CD, labeled by Hybrid. Only to find out my favorite song "Goodnight My Love" was cut short. On the CD, it ends with the sax doing a solo then fades away. . . . which leaves the song dangling and unfinished!!! On the video, this song ends with Art singing "bring you closer to me" and the music slowly ends beautifully, correctly.
There's a version out which was released by Sony in 2003. I don't know if this version contains the full song.
The Hybrid Label version is simply ridiculous!!! How can you possibly end such a beautiful song short!! leaving it unfinished. . . . and well. . . . SHORT and listeners wanting more!!!

If someone can verify if the Sony conatins the full "Goodnight My Love". . . or tell me where I can get this verson, would really appreciate it.


A delight to your ears...
An excellent (and amazingly cheap!) buy. Simply stated, anybody who's a fan of Art Garfunkel (and Paul Simon as well), will not be disappointed.


Art Garfunkel: live in concert
In this concert, Art sings some of the songs from his days singing with Paul Simon, as Simon & Garfunkel, like El Condor Pasa (If I Could), Homeward Bound, Bridge Over Trouble Water, and Mrs. In 1984, Art Garfunkel stated walking across the United States of America, I don't know if this is true, but he finally finished in 1996. Robinson. And he does some of his solo songs, mostly a few like A Heart in New York, and he is even joined by his wife and son James, he sings with James The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy). There are 16 songs, and the cd is 50 minutes long. And he does a deut with James Taylor, that happned before or after this concert outside on Ellis Island, where this show is taking place. The musicians are

Eric Weissberg, Guitar, Mandolin, and Bass
Warren Bernhardt, Piano, Rhodes, and Synthesizer
David Biglin, Synthesizer and Vocals
Tommy Igoe Drums and Percussion
Kim Cermak Garfunkel Vocals
Michael Brecker Tenor Sax
James Garfunkel Vocals

Secial guest musician
James Taylor Vocals, and Guitar

So there are all the pefromers that you will see and hear in this concert. The song that James Taylor and Art Garfunkel does a duet on is Crying in the Rain. The first of the songs that are Simon & Garfunkel songs that is sung are here is Scarborough Fair. Garfunkel closes this concert with Goodnight, my love, and opens with A heart in New York. Crying in the rain is track #2, but in the concert it plays between All I Know and Bright Eyes. .


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