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All-Stars Give Paul Simon the Tribute Treatment at Carnegie Hall — rollingstone.com

It's some surprise that it took ten years for producer Michael Dorf's annual tribute concerts to honor the music of Paul Simon. With its wealth of sounds and styles, Simon's songbook provided an ideal backdrop for the diverse, genre-spanning line-up at Monday night’s Carnegie Hall concert in Manhattan, which also served as a benefit for music education.  The two-hour, twenty-three song set was a career-spanning overview of Simon’s fifty-plus year tenure as a songwriter and performer. Bob Forrest and Gibby Haynes reached far back for "Motorcycle," an obscure, minor hit from 1962 that Simon recorded with his short-lived group Tico and the Triumphs, while cellist Ben Sollee performed a chilling solo version of 2006's "Wartime Prayer."

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