Paul Simon, Spirit Voices / Cool, Cool River (live), Fox Theater, Oakland, CA, August 9, 2019 (HD)
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- Paul Simon plays "Spirit Voices" and "The Cool, Cool River" live in concert during an Outside Lands Pop-Up Show at the Fox Theatre in Oakland, California on August 9, 2019. Both songs were originally released on the album The Rhythm of the Saints in 1990.
Paul Simon played the final show of his "Farewell Tour" on September 22, 2018, but has come out of his retirement from touring to headline at the Outside Lands Festival this Sunday in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. He has announced that he will contribute all proceeds from Sunday's performance to Friends of the Urban Forest and the San Francisco Parks Alliance. After Outside Lands, Simon will play two shows in Maui on August 13 and 14 at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center, again donating all of his net proceeds to local environmental groups.
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Spirit Voices lyrics:
We sailed up a river wide as a sea
And slept on the banks
On the leaves of a banyan tree
And all of these spirit voices rule the night
Some stories are magical, meant to be sung
Songs from the mouth of the river
When the world was young
And all of these spirit voices rule the night
By moon
We walk
To the brujo's door
Along a path of river stones
Women with their nursing children
Seated on the floor
We join the fevers
And the broken bones
The candlelight flickers
The falcon calls
A lime-green lizard scuttles down the cabin wall
And all of these spirit voices
Sing rainwater, sea water
River water, holy water
Wrap this child in mercy - heal her
Heaven's only daughter
All of these spirit voices rule the night
My hands were numb
My feet were lead
I drank a cup of herbal brew
Then the sweetness in the air
Combined with the lightness in my head
And I heard the jungle breathing in the bamboo
The lord of the earthquake
My trembling bed
The spider resumes the rhythm
Of its golden thread
And all of these spirit voices rule the night
Written by Paul Simon and Milton Nascimento
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The Cool, Cool River lyrics:
Moves like a fist through the traffic
Anger and no one can heal it
Shoves a little bump into the momentum
It's just a little lump
But you feel it
In the creases and the shadows
With a rattling deep emotion
The cool, cool river
Sweeps the wild, white ocean
Yes boss. The government handshake
Yes boss. The crusher of language
Yes boss. Mr. Stillwater
The face at the edge of the banquet
The cool, the cool river
The cool, the cool river
I believe in the future
I may live in my car
My radio tuned to
The voice of a star
Song dogs barking at the break of dawn
Lightning pushes the edge of a thunderstorm
And these old hopes and fears
Still at my side
Anger and no one can heal it
Slides through the metal detector
Lives like a mole in a motel
A slide in a slide projector
The cool, cool river
Sweeps the wild, white ocean
The rage, the rage of love turns inward
To prayers of devotion
And these prayers are
The constant road across the wilderness
These prayers are
These prayers are the memory of God
The memory of God
And I believe in the future
We shall suffer no more
Maybe not in my lifetime
But in yours I feel sure
Written by Paul Simon
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Paul Simon official bio:
During his distinguished career spanning six decades, musician and songwriter Paul Simon has produced timeless masterpieces, such as Bridge Over Troubled Water, Still Crazy After All These Years, and Graceland, all of which garnered GRAMMY Album of the Year.
Mr. Simon was awarded the inaugural Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, which recognizes the profound and positive effect of popular music on the world's culture. Mr. Simon is also a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors, and, in 2006, was named one of Time magazine's "100 People Who Shape Our World."
Of Mr. Simon’s many concert appearances, he is most fond of the two concerts in Central Park in New York (with his partner and childhood friend Art Garfunkel in 1981 and as a solo artist in 1991) and the series of shows he did at the invitation of Nelson Mandela in South Africa: the first American artist to perform in post-apartheid South Africa. In 1998, his performance on center field at Yankee Stadium celebrating the unveiling of Joe DiMaggio’s monument is a treasured memory for this lifelong Yankee’s fan.
Paul Simon's varied philanthropic work includes the co-founding of the Children's Health Fund, which donates and staffs 53 mobile medical units that bring health care to low-income children and their families around the United States, providing more than 3 million doctor/patient visits since its inception in 1987.
In a letter to fans announcing his Farewell Tour and retirement from touring last year, Mr. Simon said, "After this tour, I anticipate doing the occasional performance…and to donate those earnings to various philanthropic organizations, particularly those whose objective it is to save the planet, ecologically." - เพลง
Thanks for watching my video. I gathered all the videos I shot at this concert in a TH-cam playlist: th-cam.com/play/PLwdc0qZNx0tYeZtdchjE49LhxdjA_jGdX.html . The songs are Rene And Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After the War, Bridge Over Troubled Water, Wristband, Spirit Voices, Cool Cool River, You Can Call Me Al, Graceland, America, Still Crazy After All These Years, American Tune, and Sound Of Silence. Enjoy!
Two of his songs I love so much. Rhythm of the Saints was my favorite album of all. i really felt him on Cool Cool River; that last verse... chills. Fabulous guitar work by Biodun Kuti - great musicians all.
God always sends a prophet to speak to his people
In my lifetime that prophet is Paul Simon
I do believe in the future, we shall suffer no more...
maybe not in my lifetime, but in yours I feel assured
“The sweetness in the air combined with the the lightness in my hair”
Rhythm of the Saints was an inspired album, and these two songs are a couple of my faves,
Wonderful....Cool; Cool River is the 2nd best song he wrote with Sounds of Silence #1. Last stanza so wrenching.
Blown away by these two MASTERPIECES performed by TWO GENIUSES IN MUSIC!
I will send this vid to Biodun Kuti personally because he is a Facebookfriend of mine.
Thank you very much for uploading this very special part of the entire Paul Simon concert from Oakland 9th August 2019
Not often posted this particilar part of the concerts during the Paul Simon Homeward Bound Farewell Tour 2018 unfortunately.
I do not know what the reason is
Maybe the difficulties of understanding this specific African-Brasilian-Afro-American music and the poems Paul Simon wrote.
Thank you. So uplifting and inspiring.❤
Brilliant performance and arrangements .
Excellent!
Best song on the album, imo. Haunts me.
Cool cool river, I meant
Great! Thank you!
Danke fürs teilen, wunderbar.
Thanks Tim! Good memories!
Of all of Paul Simon’s songs over the decades, “Cool Cool River” stands alone as my favorite. He clearly writes the music first, but ultimately converts his nonsense syllables into deeply moving poetry. Who does that better?
The one solo album I wish Artie had been there
I don't have the words...