Carly Simon Yields New Song From Old Cassette
- Posted on Nov 23rd 2009 12:00PM by Michael D. Ayers
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Lots of artists dust off unfinished recordings and tack them onto reissues, but when Carly Simon found a drawer full of old cassettes from her early years, she turned them into something new. Her song 'Songbird,' the last track on her new album 'Never Been Gone,' comes from a tape Simon discovered that had the beginnings of two different songs on it -- one about being alone in New York on the fourth of July and the other about a songbird."I played these two songs that weren't intended to be together and it felt as if they did belong together," Simon tells Spinner. "So I added a third verse, it being more about the songbird and how it still carries me into the future." Essentially, 'Songbird' was started about 40 years ago and was finally finished this past year. "The last verse was the last bit of recording done on the album," she says. "[My son] Ben really held my hand through it. I thought my voice wasn't nearly as good now. It was nearly as rich as it was."




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