''You're the One'' is the tenth solo studio album by the American singer-songwriter

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, released in 2000 by

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. 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,

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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, ''

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'', which peaked at No. 42 on the ''Billboard'' 200.

Track listing

All songs written and arranged by

. #"That's Where I Belong" – 3:12 #"Darling Lorraine" – 6:39 #"Old" – 2:20 #"You're the One" – 4:28 #"The Teacher" – 3:36 #"Look at That" – 3:54 #"Señorita with a Necklace of Tears" – 3:42 #"Love" – 3:50 #"Pigs, Sheep and Wolves" – 3:59 #"Hurricane Eye" – 4:12 #"Quiet" – 4:17

Personnel

Credits adapted from CD liner notes. Musicians *

– electric guitar (1-4, 6–8, 10), acoustic guitar (7–8, 10), sitar guitar (8) * Vincent Nguini – electric guitar (1-4, 6, 8–10), acoustic guitar (10) *

Bakithi Kumalo Bakithi Kumalo (; born 10 May 1956) is a South African bassist, composer, and vocalist. Kumalo is best known for his fretless bass playing on Paul Simon's 1986 album ''Graceland'', in particular the bass run on "You Can Call Me Al". Biography and ...

– bass guitar (1-4, 7–9) *

Steve Gadd Stephen Kendall Gadd (born April 9, 1945) is an American jazz fusion drummer, percussionist, and session musician. Gadd is one of the best-known and most highly regarded session and studio drummers in the industry, recognized by his induction i ...

– drums (1-7, 9–10) * Jamey Haddad – percussion (1–10) * Steve Shehan – percussion (1–10) * Alain Mallet – Wurlitzer piano (1), pump reed organ (4, 7, 11) * Evan Ziporyn –

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(1, 5), tenor saxophone (2, 4), soprano saxophone (3) * Steve Gorn –

bamboo flute The bamboo flute, especially the bone flute, is one of the oldest musical instruments known. Examples of Paleolithic flutes, Paleolithic bone flutes have survived for more than 40,000 years, to be discovered by archaeologists. While the oldest f ...

(1, 5–6, 8) * Jay Elfenbein –

vihuela The vihuela () is a 15th-century fretted plucked Spanish string instrument, shaped like a guitar (figure-of-eight form offering strength and portability) but tuned like a lute. It was used in 15th- and 16th-century Spain as the equivalent of t ...

(1–2, 11),

vielle The is a European bowed stringed instrument used in the medieval period, similar to a modern violin but with a somewhat longer and deeper body, three to five gut strings, and a leaf-shaped pegbox with frontal tuning pegs, sometimes with a fig ...

(1) * Mark Stewart – cello (2), electric guitar (2),

dobro Dobro () is an American brand of resonator guitars owned by Gibson and manufactured by its subsidiary Epiphone. The term "dobro" is also used as a generic term for any wood-bodied, single-cone resonator guitar. The Dobro was originally a gui ...

(7, 9), sitar guitar (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 in modern forms is usually made of plastic, where early membranes were made of animal skin. ...

(10), tromba doo (11) *

Clifford Carter Clifford Carter (born August 10, 1952) is an American keyboardist, musical director, composer and arranger. Carter is known for his performances with such artists as James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, Paul Simon, Rosanne Cash, Michael Franks (mus ...

– celeste (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 ...

(10) * Peter Herbert –

upright bass The double bass (), also known as the upright bass, the acoustic bass, the bull fiddle, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched string instrument, chordophone in the modern orchestra, symphony orchestra (excluding rare additions ...

(4, 11) *

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–

pedal steel guitar The pedal steel guitar is a console steel guitar with pedals and knee levers that change the pitch of certain strings, enabling more varied and complex music to be played than with other steel guitar designs. Like all steel guitars, it can play ...

(5, 6) *

Abraham Laboriel Abraham Laboriel López (born July 17, 1947) is a Mexican-American bassist who has played on over 4,000 recordings and soundtracks. ''Guitar Player'' magazine called him "the most widely used session bassist of our time". Laboriel is the fathe ...

– bass guitar (5–6, 10) *

Howard Levy Howard Levy (born July 31, 1951) is an American musician. A keyboardist and virtuoso harmonica player, he "has been realistically presented as one of the most important and radical harmonica innovators of the twentieth century." In 1988, Le ...

–

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 incl ...

(5) * Skip LaPlante – 96-tone harp (7, 11), whirly pipe (11), rubbered steel bowl (11) * Dan Duggan –

hammer dulcimer The hammered dulcimer (also called the hammer dulcimer) is a percussion-string instrument which consists of strings typically stretched over a trapezoidal resonant sound board. The hammered dulcimer is set before the musician, who in more tradi ...

(10) * Andy Snitzer – tenor saxophone (2, 4), soprano saxophone (3) Technical * Paul Simon – producer, arrangements * Andy Smith – engineer, mixing * Claudius Mittendorfer – second engineer * Rob Murphy – second engineer * Steve Schweidel – second engineer *

Bob Ludwig Robert Carl Ludwig (born December 11, 1944), is a retired American mastering engineer. He 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 Zeppeli ...

– mastering *

Stanley Silverman Stanley Silverman (born July 5, 1938, in New York City) is an American composer, arranger, conductor and guitarist. Silverman's diverse career covers music theatre, film, television, classical and pop music. His work has featured on stages acros ...

–

French horn The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the horn in professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. The double horn in F/B (technically a variety of German horn) is the horn most o ...

arrangements (2, 5) *

Lynn Goldsmith Lynn Goldsmith (born 1948) is an American recording artist, film director, celebrity portrait photographer, and rock and roll photographer. She has also made fine art photography with conceptual images and her paintings. Taschen, Rizzoli, an ...

– photography, art direction * Greg Foley – design

Charts and certifications

Weekly charts

Certifications

References

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