The Studio Recordings 1972–2000

Tracklist

• CD 1: Paul Simon
• 1
  Mother and Child Reunion
  3:10
  4.3 ★
• 2
  Duncan
  4:43
  4.1 ★
• 3
  Everything Put Together Falls Apart
  2:02
  2.2 ★
• 4
  Run That Body Down
  3:55
  2.6 ★
• 5
  Armistice Day
  3:57
  3.0 ★
• 6
  Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard
  2:45
  4.4 ★
• 7
  Peace Like a River
  3:23
  2.9 ★
• 8
  Papa Hobo
  2:36
  2.6 ★
• 9
  Hobo’s Blues
  1:21
  2.3 ★
• 10
  Paranoia Blues
  2:58
  2.5 ★
• 11
  Congratulations
  3:51
  2.5 ★
• 12
  Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard (demo – San Francisco 2/71)
  2:30
  3.0 ★
• 13
  Duncan (demo – San Francisco 2/71)
  2:49
  2.0 ★
• 14
  Paranoia Blues (unreleased version)
  3:14
  3.0 ★
• CD 2: There Goes Rhymin' Simon
• 1
  Kodachrome
  3:35
  4.2 ★
• 2
  Tenderness
  2:56
• 3
  Take Me to the Mardi Gras
  3:31
• 4
  Something So Right
  4:37
  3.4 ★
• 5
  One Man’s Ceiling Is Another Man’s Floor
  3:48
  5.0 ★
• 6
  American Tune
  3:47
  4.0 ★
• 7
  Was a Sunny Day
  3:44
  3.4 ★
• 8
  Learn How to Fall
  2:48
• 9
  St. Judy’s Comet
  3:22
  3.5 ★
• 10
  Loves Me Like a Rock
  3:40
  4.0 ★
• 11
  Let Me Live in Your City (work‐in‐progress)
  4:22
• 12
  Take Me to the Mardi Gras (acoustic demo)
  2:31
• 13
  American Tune (unfinished demo)
  4:03
• 14
  Loves Me Like a Rock (acoustic demo)
  3:25
• CD 3: Still Crazy After All These Years
• 1
  Still Crazy After All These Years
  3:27
  4.6 ★
• 2
  My Little Town
  3:52
  3.2 ★
• 3
  I Do It for Your Love
  3:35
  5.0 ★
• 4
  50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
  3:37
  3.9 ★
• 5
  Night Game
  2:59
• 6
  Gone at Last
  3:41
• 7
  Some Folks’ Lives Roll Easy
  3:14
• 8
  Have a Good Time
  3:26
  4.0 ★
• 9
  You’re Kind
  3:20
• 10
  Silent Eyes
  4:12
• 11
  Slip Slidin’ Away (demo)
  5:30
  4.0 ★
• 12
  Gone at Last (original demo)

  Paul Simon w/ The Jessy Dixon Singers
  4:39
• CD 4: One Trick Pony
• 1
  Late in the Evening
  4:03
  4.0 ★
• 2
  That’s Why God Made the Movies
  3:38
• 3
  One‐Trick Pony
  3:54
  3.0 ★
• 4
  How the Heart Approaches What It Yearns
  2:49
• 5
  Oh, Marion
  4:01
• 6
  Ace in the Hole
  5:43
• 7
  Nobody
  3:33
• 8
  Jonah
  3:31
• 9
  God Bless the Absentee
  3:18
• 10
  Long, Long Day
  3:57
• 11
  Soft Parachutes (unreleased soundtrack recording)
  1:54
• 12
  All Because of You (outtake)
  4:07
• 13
  Spiral Highway (unreleased soundtrack recording)
  2:57
• 14
  Stranded in a Limousine
  3:11
• CD 5: Hearts and Bones
• 1
  Allergies
  4:39
• 2
  Hearts and Bones
  5:39
  3.6 ★
• 3
  When Numbers Get Serious
  3:26
• 4
  Think Too Much (b)
  2:45
• 5
  Song About the Moon
  4:11
  4.0 ★
• 6
  Think Too Much (a)
  3:05
• 7
  Train in the Distance
  5:12
  5.0 ★
• 8
  Rene and Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After the War
  3:46
  3.4 ★
• 9
  Cars Are Cars
  3:15
• 10
  The Late Great Johnny Ace
  4:53
• 11
  Shelter of Your Arms (work‐in‐progress)
  3:12
• 12
  Train in the Distance (original acoustic demo)
  3:14
• 13
  Rene and Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After the War (original acoustic demo)
  3:47
• 14
  The Late Great Johnny Ace (original acoustic demo)
  3:22
• CD 6: Graceland
• 1
  The Boy in the Bubble
  4:00
  4.5 ★
• 2
  Graceland
  4:51
  4.3 ★
• 3
  I Know What I Know
  3:14
  4.0 ★
• 4
  Gumboots
  2:45
  3.8 ★
• 5
  Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes
  5:51
  4.2 ★
• 6
  You Can Call Me Al
  4:41
  4.2 ★
• 7
  Under African Skies
  3:37
  4.2 ★
• 8
  Homeless
  3:49
  4.0 ★
• 9
  Crazy Love, Vol. II
  4:20
  3.8 ★
• 10
  That Was Your Mother
  2:53
  3.8 ★
• 11
  All Around the World or the Myth of Fingerprints
  3:26
  3.8 ★
• 12
  Homeless (demo)
  2:32
  4.0 ★
• 13
  Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes (unreleased version)
  4:43
  4.5 ★
• 14
  All Around the World or the Myth of Fingerprints (early version)
  3:17
  4.0 ★
• CD 7: The Rhythm of the Saints
• 1
  The Obvious Child
  4:10
  4.2 ★
• 2
  Can’t Run But
  3:37
  3.2 ★
• 3
  The Coast
  5:05
  3.8 ★
• 4
  Proof
  4:40
  3.8 ★
• 5
  Further to Fly
  5:36
  3.4 ★
• 6
  She Moves On
  5:04
  3.5 ★
• 7
  Born at the Right Time
  3:48
  4.0 ★
• 8
  The Cool, Cool River
  4:33
  3.0 ★
• 9
  Spirit Voices
  3:56
  3.8 ★
• 10
  The Rhythm of the Saints
  4:21
  3.8 ★
• 11
  Born at the Right Time (original acoustic demo)
  3:50
  3.0 ★
• 12
  Thelma (acoustic demo)
  4:15
  4.0 ★
• 13
  The Coast (work‐in‐progress)
  5:14
  3.0 ★
• 14
  Spirit Voices (work‐in‐progress)
  3:50
  3.0 ★
• CD 8: Songs From the Capeman
• 1
  Adios Hermanos
  4:42
  3.0 ★
• 2
  Born in Puerto Rico
  5:03
  3.0 ★
• 3
  Satin Summer Nights
  5:46
  3.0 ★
• 4
  Bernadette
  3:34
  4.0 ★
• 5
  The Vampires
  5:15
  3.0 ★
• 6
  Quality
  4:19
  3.0 ★
• 7
  Can I Forgive Him
  6:02
  2.0 ★
• 8
  Sunday Afternoon
  3:25
  2.0 ★
• 9
  Killer Wants to Go to College
  1:51
  2.0 ★
• 10
  Time Is an Ocean
  5:24
  3.0 ★
• 11
  Virgil
  2:50
  3.0 ★
• 12
  Killer Wants to Go to College II
  2:10
  2.0 ★
• 13
  Trailways Bus
  5:23
• 14
  Shoplifting Clothes (unreleased)
  3:38
• 15
  Born in Puerto Rico (demo w/ Jose Feliciano)
  5:02
• 16
  Can I Forgive Him (original demo)
  1:57
• CD 9: You're the One
• 1
  That’s Where I Belong
  3:13
  3.5 ★
• 2
  Darling Lorraine
  6:39
  4.0 ★
• 3
  Old
  2:20
  4.0 ★
• 4
  You’re the One
  4:28
  4.0 ★
• 5
  The Teacher
  3:36
  3.0 ★
• 6
  Look at That
  3:54
  3.0 ★
• 7
  Señorita With a Necklace of Tears
  3:41
  3.0 ★
• 8
  Love
  3:51
  4.0 ★
• 9
  Pigs, Sheep and Wolves
  3:58
  2.0 ★
• 10
  Hurricane Eye
  4:12
  3.5 ★
• 11
  Quiet
  4:25
  2.0 ★
• 12
  That’s Where I Belong (live)
  3:43
• 13
  Old (live)
  2:40
• 14
  Hurricane Eye (live)
  6:00

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Release credits

• Abraham Laboriel
  bass [6, 11]
• Adrian Belew
  guitar [7], guitar synthesizer [7.9, 6.1, 6.6, 6.9]
• Airto Moreira
  percussion [5.1-4, 5.7, 2.7, 1.5-6]
• Al Di Meola
  guitar [1], solo [1]
• Al Gafa
  guitar [4]
• Al Rubin
  trumpet [6]
• Alain Hatot
  saxophone [4]
• Alain Mallet
  Wurlitzer electric piano [1], reed organ [4, 7]
• Alex Foster
  alto saxophone [5]
• Allen Toussaint
  brass [2]
• Alonzo Johnson
  bass guitar [10]
• Alton Rubin, Jr.
  drums (drum set) [10]
• Andrew Fraser
  assistant [8]
• André Manga
  bass [4]
• Andy Smith
  mix [1-11], recording [1-11]
• Anthony Carillo
  bongos [9]
• Anthony Jackson
  acoustic bass guitar [1-5, 7-9], bass guitar [5], fretless bass [8]
• Arlen Roth
  acoustic guitar [13], guitar [9, 11-13]
• Armand Sabal‐Lecco
  bass [6-7, 9-10]
• Armando Macedo
  guitar [10]
• Art Garfunkel
  co [2], producer [2], vocal [2]
• Assane Tham
  percussion [5]
• Babacar Faye
  percussion [5]
• Bakhiti Khumalo
  bass [10]
• Bakithi Kumalo
  bass [9.7, 7.3-4, 7.7, 7.9, 8.13], bass guitar [1-2, 5-7]
• Barney Rachabane
  saxophone [4]
• Barry Beckett
  electric piano [1], keyboard [1, 9], piano [3.2, 2.5], vibraphone [9]
• Barry Danielian
  flugelhorn [10]
• Beloba
  additional [5], percussion [5]
• Bernard Edwards
  bass guitar [6]
• Bernard Estardy
  engineer [2]
• Bill Holloman
  tenor saxophone [4], trumpet [13]
• Bill Schnee
  mix [2]
• Bob Cranshaw
  bass guitar [6-7], electric bass guitar [4]
• Bob Franceschini
  soprano saxophone [10]
• Bob Friedman
  brass [10], strings [10]
• Bob James
  electric piano [7-8], keyboard [4, 6], strings [1, 3], woodwind [1]
• Bobby Allende
  bell tree [4], bongos [2], cymbal [2]
• Bobby Scott
  piano [4]
• Brooks Arthur
  recording [2]
• Burt Szerlip
  recording [1, 3-10]
• C.J. Chenier
  accordion [7]
• Carol Wincenc
  flute [10]
• Carson Whitsett
  organ [8]
• Cesar Rosas
  guitar [11], vocal [11]
• Charles Doherty
  alto saxophone [3, 8], tenor saxophone [8]
• Charlie McCoy
  harmonica [8]
• Charlotte Mbango
  background vocals [4, 6-7]
• Chikapa “Ray” Phiri
  additional [6-7, 9], guitar [6.2, 6.5-7, 6.9, 7.6]
• Chris Eminizer
  tenor saxophone [6]
• Cissy Houston
  background vocals [1]
• Claude Jeter
  other vocals [3]
• Clifford Carter
  celesta [6, 11], glockenspiel [11]
• Clifton Anderson
  trombone [3, 8]
• Clyde Mitchell
  trumpet [3, 8]
• Conrad Lozano
  bass guitar [11]
• Cornell Dupree
  guitar [2]
• Crusher Bennett
  shakers [13]
• Dan Duggan
  hammered dulcimer [11]
• Daniel Xilakazi
  guitar [4]
• Danny Rivera
  other vocals [2]
• Dave Bargeron
  euphonium [5], trombone [6]
• Dave Grusin
  brass [1, 9], strings [9]
• David "Piro" Rodríguez
  trumpet [2, 10]
• David Hidalgo
  accordion [11], guitar [11], vocal [11]
• David Hood
  bass [10], bass guitar [3.1-2, 2.1, 2.3, 2.5, 2.9]
• David Mann
  baritone saxophone [3], tenor saxophone [3]
• David Matthews
  brass [2, 8], horn [1, 9]
• David Rubin
  washboard [10]
• David Sanborn
  saxophone [4.14, 3.7]
• David Spinozza
  guitar [2.4, 1.4, 1.6]
• Dean Parks
  electric guitar [1, 4-5, 7, 10], guitar [2]
• Deidre Tuck
  background vocals [1]
• Del Newman
  strings [6]
• Demola Adepoju
  pedal steel guitar [2]
• Denzil Laing
  percussion [1]
• Diane Garisto
  background vocals [4]
• Dom Chacal
  Batá drum [5], bongos [4, 6], congas [5, 7], other instruments [9]
• Don Elliott
  vibraphone [4]
• Don Grolnick
  synthesizer [2]
• Earl Gardner
  trumpet [5]
• Eddie Daniels
  saxophone [7]
• Eddie Montalvo
  congas [5]
• Edgardo Miranda
  cuatro [2-3]
• Ednita Nazario
  lead vocals [8]
• Eric Gale
  classical guitar [4], electric guitar [5.3, 4.1, 4.3-4, 4.6-7, 4.9]
• Errol Ince
  trumpet [3, 8]
• Evan Ziporyn
  bass clarinet [5], basset clarinet [1]
• Florence Gnimagnon
  background vocals [4, 6-7]
• Forere Motloheloa
  accordion [1]
• Francisco Aguabella
  congas [9]
• Frankie Negrón
  lead vocals [6]
• Fred Lipsius
  horn [5]
• Frederick Zlotkin
  cello [10]
• Félix Sabal Lecco
  drums (drum set) [7]
• General M. D. Shirinda
  chorus master [3]
• George Marge
  bass clarinet [10]
• Georges Delerue
  orchestrator [8]
• Georges Seba
  electric guitar [4]
• Giovanni Hidalgo
  congas [9]
• Glenn Berger
  recording [1, 3-10]
• Gordinho
  other instruments [6]
• Gordon Edwards
  bass guitar [4.14, 3.6, 2.2]
• Grady Tate
  drums (drum set) [2.4, 2.6, 3.6]
• Greg Phillinganes
  Rhodes piano [1, 5, 10], synthesizer [3, 5, 8]
• Hal Blaine
  drums (drum set) [4, 10-11]
• Harper Simon
  guitar [9, 11-12], harmonica [9]
• Hiram Bullock
  electric guitar [2]
• Horace Ott
  piano [4, 9]
• Howard Levy
  harmonica [5]
• Hugh Masekela
  flugelhorn [5]
• Hugh McCracken
  acoustic guitar [4.1-2, 4.7, 4.9-10, 3.9], electric guitar [4, 7-8], slide guitar [2]
• Huks Brown
  guitar [1]
• Isaac Mtshali
  drums (drum set) [5-7, 9]
• J.J. Cale
  guitar [2, 7]
• Jack Schroer
  horn [5, 10]
• Jackie Jackson
  bass [1]
• Jacques Bolognesi
  trombone [4]
• James Cary Stroud
  drums (drum set) [8]
• Jamey Haddad
  percussion [1-11]
• Jay Elfenbein
  vielle [1], vihuela [1]
• Jay Leonhart
  bass [6]
• Jeff Mironov
  electric guitar [5]
• Jeff Porcaro
  drums (drum set) [7]
• Jerry Friedman
  electric guitar [3]
• Jerry Hahn
  electric guitar [4-5]
• Jerry Masters
  engineer [1, 3, 5, 7, 9-10], recording [2]
• Jerry Puckett
  guitar [8]
• Jesse Levy
  cello [7]
• Jill Jaffe
  viola [10]
• Jim Boyer
  engineer [1-10]
• Jimmy Johnson
  electric guitar [1, 3]
• Jimmy McDonald
  accordion [4]
• Jimmy Sabater
  congas [6], cowbell [6]
• Joe Beck
  electric guitar [3.3, 3.8-9, 4.10]
• Joe Osborn
  bass [7, 11]
• John Beal
  bass [2, 4]
• John Tropea
  acoustic guitar [8], electric guitar [4]
• John Walsh
  trumpet [5]
• Johnny Hoyt
  saxophone [10]
• Johnson Mkhalali
  accordion [4]
• Jon Faddis
  flugelhorn [5], trumpet [6]
• Jorge José da Silva
  additional [5], percussion [5]
• Joseph Shabalala
  lead vocals [8]
• Jude Bethel
  tenor saxophone [3]
• Juliet Haffner
  viola [2, 10]
• Justin Tchounou
  synthesizer [4]
• Karen Bernod
  background vocals [8.1, 8.3, 7.3]
• Kenny Ascher
  electric piano [3], organ [4]
• Kevin Harrison
  background vocals [4]
• Kia Jeffries
  background vocals [8.1, 8.3, 7.3]
• Kim Allan Cissel
  trombone [6]
• Kim Wilson
  harmonica [1]
• Kofi Electrik
  guitar [10]
• Krista Bennion Feeney
  violin [10]
• Ladysmith Black Mambazo
  background vocals [3], choir vocals [5, 8]
• Lani Groves
  background vocals [10]
• Larry Campbell
  pedal steel guitar [6]
• Larry Knechtel
  electric piano [3], harmonium [3, 8], organ [11], piano [1, 11]
• Laura Bontrager
  cello [8, 10]
• Lenny Pickett
  tenor saxophone [5]
• Lenny Waronker
  co [1, 5, 10]
• Leon Pendarvis
  piano [10]
• Lew Del Gatto
  saxophone [14]
• Lew Soloff
  trumpet [6]
• Linda Ronstadt
  vocal [7]
• Lloyd Lelose
  bass guitar [9]
• Los Incas
  charango [2], flute [2], percussion [2]
• Los Lobos
  performer [11]
• Louie Pérez
  drums (drum set) [11]
• Lulu Masilela
  tambourine [4]
• Luna
  additional [5], percussion [5]
• Lynn Gomila
  background vocals [3]
• Maggie Roche
  vocal [7]
• Makhaya Mahlangu
  percussion [1-2]
• Marc Anthony
  lead vocals [3, 10]
• Marc Quiñones
  congas [2], timbales [2]
• Marcia Butler
  oboe [2]
• Marco Antonio Guimarães
  arranger [2]
• Marcus Miller
  bass [4, 7]
• Marin Alsop
  violin [10]
• Mark Cobrin
  assistant [1-7, 9, 11]
• Mark Miller
  assistant [10]
• Mark Rivera
  alto saxophone [7]
• Mark Stewart
  banjo [11], cello [2], electric guitar [2], gong [9], pedal steel guitar [9], resonator guitar [9]
• Marky Markowitz
  trumpet [14]
• Martin Atangana
  electric guitar [4]
• Marvin Stamm
  trumpet [14]
• Mazzola
  other instruments [2]
• Michael Boddicker
  synthesizer [10]
• Michael Brecker
  saxophone [4.14, 7.6, 3.1, 3.7], solo [1], synthesizer [1, 3, 5], wind synthesizer [8-9]
• Michael Riesman
  additional [10], conductor [10], synthesizer [10]
• Michelle Cobbs
  background vocals [4]
• Mike Mainieri
  marimba [2, 4], vibraphone [5.2, 5.7, 1.4]
• Mike Makhalemele
  saxophone [4]
• Milton Cardona
  background vocals [4-5], bongos [8], claves [8], congas [10], güira [10], maracas [8]
• Milton Nascimento
  vocal [9]
• Mingo Araújo
  bass drum [4, 9], bell [3, 7], castanets [2], congas [6-8], cymbal [4], percussion [5], shakers [3], talking drum [2, 4], triangle [2, 8]
• Morris Goldberg
  solo [6], soprano saxophone [9], tin whistle [6]
• Naná Vasconcelos
  berimbau [8, 10], congas [9], other instruments [3, 5, 8-9], percussion [2, 10], triangle [9], vocal [2-3, 5, 9-10]
• Nelson González
  tres [2]
• Nestor Sanchez
  background vocals [2]
• Neville Hinds
  organ [1]
• Nile Rodgers
  drum machine [9], electric guitar [6, 9]
• Okyerema Asante
  drums (drum set) [8]
• Olodum
  drums (drum set) [1]
• Onward Brass Band
  brass [3]
• Oscar Hernández
  associate [1-13], celesta [4], glockenspiel [4], horn [5], piano [2, 5, 8, 10], synthesizer [2, 4], vibraphone [4]
• Ozzie Melendez
  trombone [10]
• Pablo Calogero
  baritone saxophone [5], bass clarinet [10]
• Pablo Nuñez "El Chino"
  bongos [5], cowbell [5]
• Patti Austin
  background vocals [4.10, 3.4], lead vocals [10]
• Paul Griffin
  piano [2.2, 8.6]
• Paul Livant
  guitar [4]
• Paul Peabody
  violin [10]
• Paul Samwell-Smith
  co [6]
• Paul Simon
  acoustic guitar [9.7-8, 9.11, 8.2-4, 8.7, 8.9-13, 5.1-2, 5.4-5, 5.10, 6.1, 6.11, 3.2, 3.4, 3.9], arranger [1.1-11, 9.1-11], background vocals [4.1, 4.5-7, 4.10, 8.3-4, 8.6, 6.1-2, 6.4, 6.6, 6.9, 7.4], brass [4.4, 4.8, 4.14, 3.7, 3.9], classical guitar [2, 4, 8], drum machine [9], electric bass guitar [6], electric guitar [5.8, 9.1-4, 9.6-8, 9.10-11, 3.5, 4.3, 4.6], guitar [6.5, 6.7, 8.4, 8.8, 7.1, 7.3, 7.5-8, 7.8-9, 1.1-11, 4.14, 2.1, 2.3-4, 2.6-10], horn [1-3, 5-10], lead vocals [8.1-7, 8.9, 8.11-13, 6.1, 4.1, 4.3, 4.5-7, 4.10], percussion [4.8, 1.10], phonographic copyright [3.1, 3.1-2, 3.2, 3.2-3, 3.3, 3.3-4, 3.4, 3.4-5, 3.5, 3.5-6, 3.6-7, 3.7, 3.7-8, 3.8, 3.8-9, 3.9, 3.9-10, 3.10, 3.10-11, 3.11-12, 3.12, 7.1-14, 8.4, 4.1-10], producer [6.1-11, 7.1, 8.1-13, 1.1-11, 3.1-12, 4.1-10, 4.14, 2.1-10], sitar [8], strings [3.7, 4.4, 4.8], synclavier [3-4], vocal [4.2, 4.4, 4.8-9, 4.14, 5.8, 1.1-11, 6.2-11, 7.8-9, 9.1-11, 3.1-12]
• Paulo Santos
  other instruments [2]
• Pedro Sorongo
  additional [5], other instruments [6], percussion [5]
• Pete Carr
  electric guitar [2.3, 3.2], guitar [3.2, 2.1, 2.5]
• Peter Gordon
  French horn [7]
• Peter Herbert
  electric upright bass [4]
• Peter Thwaites
  assistant [1-4, 9]
• Petrus Manile
  drums (drum set) [4]
• Phil Ramone
  co [4, 7-8, 10], engineer [3.1-12, 4.1-10, 2.1-2, 2.4-7, 2.10, 1.6], mix [4.1-10, 3.2], producer [3.1-12, 4.1-10, 4.14]
• Phil Woods
  saxophone [8], solo [8]
• Philippe Slominski
  trumpet [4]
• Phoebe Snow
  background vocals [4], vocal [6]
• Quincy Jones
  strings [4]
• Ralph MacDonald
  percussion [4.1-2, 4.8, 6.4, 6.6-7, 6.11, 3.2-4, 3.6, 3.8]
• Randy Brecker
  piccolo trumpet [6], trumpet [6.6, 7.5, 4.14]
• Raphael Rabello
  classical guitar [5]
• Ray Vega
  solo [5], trumpet [2, 5]
• Ray de la Paz
  background vocals [2, 4]
• Reginald Brisbon
  background vocals [1, 4]
• Remy Kabocka
  talking drum [2]
• Renelle Stafford
  background vocals [1]
• Richard Crooks
  drums (drum set) [6]
• Richard Davis
  double bass [4]
• Richard Tee
  Rhodes piano [2, 7-8, 8], background vocals [3, 6], keyboard [3], lead vocals [6], piano [4.2-10, 4.14, 5.4, 3.6], synthesizer [8], tambourine [6]
• Rick Marotta
  drums (drum set) [2]
• Ringo Starr
  guitar [5]
• Rob Mounsey
  horn [6], synthesizer [5.1, 6.1, 6.6], vocoder [5]
• Rob Sabino
  piano [8], synthesizer [1, 9]
• Robby Ameen
  drums (drum set) [2, 4, 10]
• Robby Turner
  pedal steel guitar [13]
• Rocking Dopsie & The Cajun Twisters
  performer [10]
• Rockin’ Dopsie
  accordion [10]
• Roger Hawkins
  drums (drum set) [3.1-2, 2.1, 2.3, 2.5, 2.10], percussion [9]
• Roger Quested
  engineer [6]
• Ron Carter
  instrument [4]
• Ronnie Cuber
  baritone saxophone [6], bass saxophone [6]
• Roy Halee
  additional [1, 3, 6, 13], associate [1-13], co [2], engineer [6.1-11, 1.2, 1.10, 2.2, 5.1-10], mix [1-10], remixer [6]
• Rubén Blades
  lead vocals [10]
• Rubén Rodríguez
  bass [8, 10]
• Rudy Hill
  engineer [10]
• Russell George
  bass [6]
• Sara Ramirez
  vocal [13]
• Severo
  instrument [10]
• Shannon Ford
  drums (drum set) [9, 11-13]
• Sherman Robertson
  guitar [10]
• Sid McGinnis
  electric guitar [10]
• Sidinho Moreira
  bass drum [7], bongos [5], congas [5-7, 9], other instruments [4, 7], tambourine [9]
• Sivuca
  accordion [3], solo [3]
• Skip La Plante
  harp [7]
• Stanley Silverman
  conductor [8], orchestrator [2, 10]
• Stefan Grossman
  guitar [10]
• Steve Berlin
  saxophone [11]
• Steve Cropper
  guitar [10]
• Steve Ferrone
  drums (drum set) [1, 3, 6]
• Steve Gadd
  additional [11], drums (drum set) [6.11, 7.2, 7.4, 9.1-11, 3.3-4, 3.7-10, 5.1-2, 5.4-5, 5.10, 4.1-10], percussion [14]
• Steve Gorn
  flute [5-6, 8], transverse flute [1]
• Steve Shehan
  percussion [1-11]
• Steve Turre
  horn [10]
• Steven Strassman
  assistant [2, 7, 11]
• Stewart Rose
  French horn [2]
• Stimela
  performer [9]
• Stéphane Grappelli
  violin [9]
• Tau Ea Matsekha
  performer [1-2]
• Teaspoon Ndelu
  saxophone [4]
• Terre Roche
  vocal [7]
• The Boyoyo Boys
  performer [4]
• The Chicago Community Choir
  background vocals [10]
• The Dixie Hummingbirds
  background vocals [2], vocal [10]
• The Everly Brothers
  vocal [2]
• The Gaza Sisters
  choir vocals [3]
• The Harptones
  background vocals [8], vocal arranger [8]
• The Jessy Dixon Singers
  background vocals [6, 12]
• The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section
  co [1, 3, 5, 9-10]
• Tom Coppola
  synclavier [3-6]
• Tommy Bilson-Ogoe
  guitar [10]
• Tony Garnier
  bass [9, 11-12]
• Tony Levin
  background vocals [6], bass guitar [3.3-5, 3.7-10, 4.1-4, 4.6-10]
• Toots Thielemans
  harmonica [5]
• Uakti
  percussion [2, 8, 10]
• Valerie Simpson
  background vocals [4, 8]
• Vernie Robbins
  bass guitar [8]
• Vincent Nguini
  bass [5, 8], claves [9], electric guitar [1-4, 6, 9-11], guitar [8.2, 8.4, 8.10, 8.13, 7.3, 7.5, 7.5-6, 7.6-8, 7.8-10], horn [4], instrument [9], instrument arranger [3]
• Vusi Khumalo
  drums (drum set) [1-2]
• Wallace Wilson
  guitar [1]
• Wally Richardson
  guitar [6]
• Wells Christie
  synclavier [8]
• Wilson Canegal
  additional [5], percussion [5]
• Wilson das Neves
  additional [5], cowbell [6], percussion [5]
• Winston Grennan
  drums (drum set) [1]
• Wolf Stephenson
  engineer [8]
• Ya Yo de la Nelson
  other instruments [4, 7-8]
• Youssou N’Dour
  percussion [5]
• “Sissi” Catherine Elolongue
  background vocals [4, 6-7]
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  The Studio Recordings 1972–2000

  9x CD
  12 July 2004