You're the One (album)

You're the One
Cover art by Lynn Goldsmith
Studio album by Paul Simon
Released	October 3, 2000
Recorded	1999 - 2000
Studio	The Hit Factory, New York City
Genre	Folk rock, worldbeat
Length	44:09 56:45 (2004 re-issue)
Label	Warner Bros.
Producer	Paul Simon
Paul Simon chronology
Greatest Hits: Shining Like a National Guitar (2000) You're the One (2000) Surprise (2006)

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Q	(Nov 2000 p.109)

You're the One is the tenth solo studio album by Paul Simon, released in 2000 and his first successful studio album in 10 years. The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 2001, with Simon becoming the first artist to be nominated in that category in five consecutive decades (1960s-2000s). (In 2006, Paul McCartney became the only other artist to match this feat with Chaos and Creation in the Backyard).

You're the One was also considered a comeback after the failure of Simon's Broadway musical, The Capeman, and concept album for the musical, Songs from The Capeman, which peaked at #42 on the Billboard 200.

The album was remastered and re-released in 2004, accompanied with three bonus live tracks.

Track listing

All songs written and arranged by Paul Simon.

1. "That's Where I Belong" – 3:12
2. "Darling Lorraine" – 6:39
3. "Old" – 2:19
4. "You're the One" – 4:27
5. "The Teacher" – 3:36
6. "Look at That" – 3:54
7. "Señorita with a Necklace of Tears" – 3:41
8. "Love" – 3:50
9. "Pigs, Sheep and Wolves" – 3:58
10. "Hurricane Eye" – 4:12
11. "Quiet" – 4:17

Bonus tracks from the 2004 reissue of the album

12. "That's Where I Belong (Live)" – 3:42
13. "Old (Live)" – 2:40
14. "Hurricane Eye (Live)" – 6:00

Personnel

• Paul Simon – vocals (all tracks), acoustic guitar (tracks 7, 8, 10), electric guitar (tracks 1-4, 6-8, 10), sitar^[1] (track 8)
• Steve Gorn – bamboo flute (tracks 1, 5, 6, 8)
• Larry Campbell – pedal steel guitar (tracks 5, 6)
• Dan Duggan – hammer dulcimer (track 10)
• Jay Elfenbein – vielle (track 1), vihuela (tracks 1, 2, 11)
• Steve Gadd – drums (tracks 1-7, 9, 10)
• Jamey Haddad – percussion (tracks 1-10)
• Peter Herbert – upright bass (tracks 4, 11)
• Bakithi Khumalo - bass (tracks 1-4, 7-9)
• Skip LaPlante – harp (tracks 7, 11), bowls (track 11), whirly tube (track 11)
• Abraham Laboriel – bass (tracks 5, 6, 10)
• Howard Levy – harmonica (track 5)
• Alain Mallet – pump reed organ (tracks 4, 7, 11), wurlitzer (track 1)
• Vincent Nguini – acoustic guitar (track 10), electric guitar (tracks 1-4, 6, 8-10)
• Stanley Silverman – arrangement of french horns (tracks 2, 5)
• Andy Snitzer – soprano (track 3) & tenor (tracks 2, 4) saxophone
• Evan Ziporyn – bass clarinet (tracks 1, 5), soprano (track 3) & tenor (track 2, 4) saxophone
• Clifford Carter – celeste (tracks 2, 6, 10), keyboard glockenspiel (track 10)
• Mark Stewart – dobro (track 7, 9, ), cello (track 2), electric guitar (track 2), sitar (tracks 7), banjo (track 10), pedal steel gong (track 9), tromba doo (track 11)
• Steve Shehan – percussion (tracks 1-10)

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