''You're the One'' is the tenth solo studio album by

Paul Simon Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is an American musician, singer, songwriter and actor whose career has spanned six decades. He is one of the most acclaimed songwriters in popular music, both as a solo artist and as half of folk roc ...

, released in 2000. The album was nominated for a

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in 2001, with Simon becoming the first artist to be nominated in that category in five consecutive decades (1960s-2000s). (In 2006, Paul McCartney became the only other artist to match this feat with ''

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''). ''You're the One'' was also considered a comeback after the failure of Simon's Broadway musical, ''

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'', and

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for the musical, '' Songs from The Capeman'', which peaked at #42 on the Billboard 200. The album was remastered and re-released in 2004, accompanied with three bonus live tracks.

Track listing

All songs written and arranged by

. ;Side one ;Side two Bonus tracks from the 2004 reissue of the album

Personnel

* Paul Simon – vocals, electric guitar (1-4, 6, 7, 8, 10), acoustic guitar (7, 8, 10), sitar (8) * Alain Mallet – Wurlitzer electric piano (1),

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(4, 7, 11) * Clifford Carter –

celesta The celesta or celeste , also called a bell-piano, is a struck idiophone operated by a keyboard. It looks similar to an upright piano (four- or five-octave), albeit with smaller keys and a much smaller cabinet, or a large wooden music box ( ...

(2, 6, 10),

keyboard glockenspiel The keyboard glockenspiel (French: ''jeu de timbre'') or organ glockenspiel is an instrument consisting of a glockenspiel operated by a piano keyboard. It was first used by George Frideric Handel in the oratorio ''Saul'' (1739). It was also used in ...

(10) *

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– electric guitar (1-4, 6, 8, 9, 10), acoustic guitar (10) * Mark Stewart – electric guitar (2), cello (2),

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(7, 9), sitar (7), pedal steel gong (9),

banjo The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator. The membrane is typically circular, and usually made of plastic, or occasionally animal skin. Early forms of the instrument were fashi ...

(10), trumpet (11) * Larry Campbell –

pedal steel guitar The pedal steel guitar is a Console steel guitar, console-type of steel guitar with pedals and knee levers that change the pitch of certain strings to enable playing more varied and complex music than any previous steel guitar design. Like all s ...

(5, 6) * Jay Elfenbein – vihuela (1, 2, 11), vielle (1) * Bakithi Kumalo – bass (1-4, 7, 8, 9) * Peter Herbert – electric upright bass (4, 11) * Abraham Laboriel – bass (5, 6, 10) * Steve Gadd – drums (1-7, 9, 10) * Jamey Haddad – percussion (1-10) * Steve Shehan – percussion (1-10) * Dan Duggan –

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(10) * Steve Gorn – bamboo flute (1, 5, 6, 8) * Evan Ziporyn –

clarinet The clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. The instrument has a nearly cylindrical bore and a flared bell, and uses a single reed to produce sound. Clarinets comprise a family of instruments of differing sizes and pitches ...

(1, 5), tenor saxophone (2, 4), soprano saxophone (3) * Andy Snitzer – tenor saxophone (2, 4), soprano saxophone (3) * Howard Levy –

harmonica The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock. The many types of harmonica inclu ...

(5) * Skip LaPlante –

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(7, 11), steel bowls (11), whirly tube (11) *

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– French horn arrangements (2, 5)

Production

* Paul Simon – producer, arrangements * Andy Smith – recording, mixing * Claudius Mittendorfer – second engineer * Rob Murphy – second engineer * Steve Schweidel – second engineer * Jim Corona – music technician, logistics technician * Nika Aldrich – technical support * Flip Scipio – technical support * Brent Spear – technical support *

Bob Ludwig Robert C. Ludwig (born c. 1945) is an American mastering engineer. He has mastered recordings on all the major recording formats for all the major record labels, and on projects by more than 1,300 artists including Led Zeppelin, Lou Reed, Qu ...

– mastering at Gateway Mastering (Portland, Maine) * Vaughn Hazell – personal assistant * Greg Foley – design * Lynn Goldsmith – art direction, photography *

Jeffrey Kramer Jeffrey Kramer (born July 15, 1945) is an American film and television actor and producer. Life and career Kramer was born in New York City and grew up in Teaneck, New Jersey, graduating from Teaneck High School with the Class of 1963, before ...

– management * Eddie Simon – management

Charts and certifications

Weekly charts

Certifications

References

{{Authority control Paul Simon albums 2000 albums Warner Records albums Albums produced by Paul Simon