Paul Simon / One-Trick Pony (US, Warner Bros. HS 3472) <August 12,1980> MAT ; WA2 / WA5

Paul Simon / One-Trick Pony (US, Warner Bros. HS 3472) <August 12,1980>　

本作品のプロモはたくさん見ましたが、白ラベルはありません。この商品のマトは以下の通り；
Matrix / Runout (A Side Etched): HS 1 3472 WA2 #2 37877-A
Matrix / Runout (B Side Etched): HS 2 3472 WA5 37877-B #2

　Late in the Eveningは素晴らしい曲ですし、さだまさしがカヴァーしたJonahも大好きな曲です。ただアルバムを通して聴くと、前作品のようには楽しめませんでした。。
　ポール・サイモンというと、「明日に架ける橋」以降ずっと様々なワールド・ミュージックを取り入れてきた人です。僕は非西洋音楽が持つ「西洋音楽にない濁りや揺らぎ」が好きなのですが、本作品のように凄腕のミュージシャンを集めた音楽は「カチッとはまりすぎているのが、どうも・・・」という気がします。音楽の才能がある人にはきっといい作品なんだろうなと思ってますが、僕には「ポールの作品で最も聴かない作品」です。

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZcGQX71w68

"Late In The Evening"
(from "One-Trick Pony" soundtrack)

The first thing I remember
I was lying In my bed
I couldn't of been no more
Than one or two
I remember there's a radio
Comin' from the room next door
And my mother laughed
The way some ladies do
When it's late in the evening
And the music s seeping through

The next thing I remember
I am walking down the street
I'm feeling all right
I'm with my boys
I'm with my troops, yeah
And down along the avenue
Some guys were shootin pool
And I heard the sound
Of a cappella groups, yeah
Singing late in the evening
And all the girls out on the stoops, yeah

Then I learned to play some lead guitar
I was underage In this funky bar
And I stepped outside to smoke
myself a "J"
And when I came back to the room
Everybody just seemed to move
And I turned my amp up loud and I began
to play
And it was late in the evening
And I blew that room away
The first thing I remember
When you came into my life
I said I'm gonna get that girl
No matter what I do
Well I guess I'd been in love before
And once or twice I been on the floor
But I never loved no one
The way that I loved you
And it was late in the evening
And all the music seeping through