Carly Simon - Songs from the Trees, A Musical Memoir Collection (2015) [2CD] [EAC-FLAC]

Carly Simon - Songs from the Trees, A Musical Memoir Collection (2015) [2CD]
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Pointedly not a greatest-hits collection, the double-disc compilation Songs from the Trees instead is a soundtrack to Carly Simon's 2015 memoir Boys in the Trees (in that it has a cousin in Elvis Costello's Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink, an autobiography with an accompanying aural collection). Surely, there are hits here – not all of them, but "You're So Vain," "Mockingbird," "You Belong to Me," and "Anticipation" are – but there are also some deep cuts, a track from the Simon Sisters ("Winken', Blinkin' and Nod") and other assorted rarities.

Everything here shifts focus toward Simon the singer/songwriter and, as the memoir's narrative ends at 1983, so does the music on this collection and that's a good dividing point, considering she left Warner in 1983. She'd have a comeback not long afterward – "Coming Around Again" climbed into the Top 20 in 1987 – but this is her golden period as a singer/songwriter and pop star. If the latter is diminished a bit (her James Bond theme "Nobody Does It Better" and her 1980 soft rock hit "Jesse" are absent), seek out Rhino's 2002 set Anthology for a fuller portrait of Simon as a hit-maker; turn here if you want to get a sense of what Simon believes truly reflects her soul as an artist.

CD1
01 - Boys in the Trees
02 - Winkin', Blinkin' and Nod - The Simon Sisters
03 - Orpheus
04 - Older Sister
05 - It Was So Easy
06 - Embrace Me, You Child
07 - Hello Big Man
08 - Two Hot Girls (On a Hot Summer Night)
09 - It Happens Everyday
10 - His Friends Are More Than Fond of Robin
11 - I'm All It Takes to Make You Happy
12 - That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be
13 - I've Got to Have You
14 - Anticipation
15 - Legend in Your Own Time
16 - Three Days

CD2
01 - Julie Through the Glass
02 - We Have No Secrets
03 - You're So Vain
04 - Mind on My Man
05 - Mockingbird
06 - After the Storm
07 - Hounting
08 - In Times When My Head
09 - You Belong to Me
10 - We're So Close
11 - From the Heart
12 - Come Upstairs
13 - The Right Thing to Do
14 - Showdown
15 - I Can Thank You Enough

*2015 Elektra / Rhino | 081227949495
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