You're the One

by Paul Simon

You're the One cover art
  • Type: Single
  • Released: 2001-01-01
  • Label: Reprise
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 44:09
  • Community rating: 3.12/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The title track of Paul Simon's tenth solo album, issued as a single. The song pairs Simon's conversational lyric writing with the album's rhythm-based production, built with drummer Steve Gadd and guitarist Vincent Nguini.

Genres

Descriptors: storytelling, melodic, rhythmic, vocal, personal

Tracklist

  1. That's Where I Belong (3:12)
  2. Darling Lorraine (6:39)
  3. Old (2:20)
  4. You're The One (4:28)
  5. The Teacher (3:36)
  6. Look At That (3:54)
  7. Se帽orita With A Necklace Of Tears (3:42)
  8. Love (3:50)
  9. Pigs, Sheep And Wolves (3:59)
  10. Hurricane Eye (4:12)
  11. Quiet (4:17)

Credits

  • Vincent Nguini - acoustic guitar, electric guitar
  • Stanley Silverman - arranged by [french horns]
  • Mark Stewart - banjo, cello, electric guitar, dobro, pedal steel guitar [pedal steel gong], sitar [sitar guitar], trumpet [tromba doo]
  • Evan Ziporyn - bass clarinet, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone
  • Clifford Carter - celesta, keyboards [keyboard glockenspiel]
  • Peter Herbert - double bass [upright]
  • Dan Duggan - dulcimer [hammer]
  • Alain Mallet - electric piano [wurlitzer], pump organ [pump reed]

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