Description

Never Been Gone (2009)

  1. The Right Thing To Do
  2. It Happens Every Day
  3. Never Been Gone
  4. Boys In The Trees
  5. Let The River run
  6. You’re So Vain
  7. You Belong To Me
  8. No Freedom
  9. That’s The Way I’ve Always Heard It Should Be
  10. Coming Around Again
  11. Anticipation
  12. Songbird

Credits

Producer – Paphiopedilium

Written-By – Carly Simon

Written-by [Co-written] – Benjamin Taylor* (tracks: 8), David Saw (tracks: 8), Jacob Brackman(tracks: 3, 9), Michael McDonald (tracks:7)

Editorial Review

The new album revisits songs originally written throughout Carly’s extensively long and productive career. With new largely acoustic arrangements, the CD was recorded at home on the island of Martha’s Vineyard. Carly’s son Benjamin Taylor was the originator of the idea and Carly willingly (though sometimes hesitatingly) complied and lived up to the dare. Carly, Benjamin and the rest of the producers, known as Paphiopedilium , chose the songs, most of which were Carly’s best-known and commercially successful. In the CD’s generous liner notes is an explanation not only of the word Paphiopedilium , but an explanation of the reworking of each of the songs. Carly hopes that even without these notes, the music will speak for itself.

We are proud to give Carly’s fans old and new, a brand new look at ten of her best loved, well-known songs as well as two never-heard-before surprises.