{"id":24641,"date":"2015-09-12T05:55:44","date_gmt":"2015-09-12T13:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=24641"},"modified":"2015-09-12T15:25:35","modified_gmt":"2015-09-12T23:25:35","slug":"on-911-paul-simon-performed-in-his-own-cover-band-with-colbert-on-the-late-show-and-solo-on-american-tune-web-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2015-09\/on-911-paul-simon-performed-in-his-own-cover-band-with-colbert-on-the-late-show-and-solo-on-american-tune-web-exclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"On 9\/11Paul Simon Performed In His Own Cover Band With Colbert On The Late Show and Solo on &#8220;American Tune&#8221; (Web Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/troubledwaters-640x419.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-24642\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/troubledwaters-640x419.png\" alt=\"troubledwaters-640x419\" width=\"640\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/troubledwaters-640x419.png 640w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/troubledwaters-640x419-150x98.png 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/troubledwaters-640x419-450x295.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Save one massive musical mistake this week (&#8220;country&#8221; singer, rhymes with &#8220;teeth&#8221;), <strong>Stephen Colbert<\/strong> had a good first week musically, capped off by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2015-09\/watch-kendrick-lamar-light-up-colbert-last-night\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kendrick Lamar&#8217;s monstrously great performance on Wednesday<\/a><\/strong>. \u00a0And last night after some speculation (would it be\u00a0<strong>Vampire Weekend, Pavement<\/strong>, etc.?), <strong>Colbert<\/strong> brought out <strong>Paul Simon<\/strong> (and members of his touring band) to perform <em><strong>Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard<\/strong><\/em> under the guise of <strong>Troubled Waters\u00a0<\/strong>(&#8220;the world&#8217;s preeminent Paul Simon tribute band&#8221;). \u00a0Watch below as\u00a0<strong>Colbert<\/strong> explains his &#8220;dream&#8221; of providing the whistling on <strong>Simon&#8217;s 1972 hit<\/strong>, and then watch as <strong>Colbert<\/strong> proceeds to dance and karaoke along in song. \u00a0All good fun, particularly as leavening to some of the heavier moments of the first <strong>Colbert<\/strong> week (the <strong>Joe Biden<\/strong> interviews were superb). But a man has to know his limits&#8230;. \u00a0So when is <strong>Kendrick<\/strong> coming back?<\/p>\n<p>In a web-exclusive, <strong>Simon<\/strong> then closed out the show by performing his salient song<strong> American Tune<\/strong> (lyrics at bottom) on 9\/11. \u00a0In a time of trouble (worldwide immigration) and woe (reminding of <strong>Biden&#8217;s<\/strong>\u00a0loss and good words), the song was a great cap to Colbert&#8217;s first week. \u00a0Though he may no longer have the vocal or guitar chops of yore, <strong>Simon<\/strong>\u00a0remains one of the greatest songwriters of all-time and does the song perfect justice below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xdx8G2iZq-M\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VpTcLUDorRI\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>American Tune<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Many\u2019s the time I\u2019ve been mistaken<br \/>\nAnd many times confused<br \/>\nYes, and I\u2019ve often felt forsaken<br \/>\nAnd certainly misused<br \/>\nOh, but I\u2019m all right, I\u2019m all right<br \/>\nI\u2019m just weary to my bones<br \/>\nStill, you don\u2019t expect to be<br \/>\nBright and bon vivant<br \/>\nSo far away from home, so far away from home<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know a soul who\u2019s not been battered<br \/>\nI don\u2019t have a friend who feels at ease<br \/>\nI don\u2019t know a dream that\u2019s not been shattered<br \/>\nOr driven to its knees<br \/>\nOh, but it\u2019s all right, it\u2019s all right<br \/>\nFor lived so well so long<br \/>\nStill, when I think of the road<br \/>\nWe\u2019re traveling on<br \/>\nI wonder what went wrong<br \/>\nI can\u2019t help it, I wonder what\u2019s gone wrong<\/p>\n<p>And I dreamed I was dying<br \/>\nAnd I dreamed that my soul rose unexpectedly<br \/>\nAnd looking back down at me<br \/>\nSmiled reassuringly<br \/>\nAnd I dreamed I was flying<br \/>\nAnd high above my eyes could clearly see<br \/>\nThe Statue of Liberty<br \/>\nSailing away to sea<br \/>\nAnd I dreamed I was flying<\/p>\n<p>Oh, we come on the ship they call the Mayflower<br \/>\nWe come on the ship that sailed the moon<br \/>\nWe come in the age\u2019s most uncertain hour<br \/>\nAnd sing an American tune<br \/>\nOh, it\u2019s all right, it\u2019s all right<br \/>\nIt\u2019s all right, it\u2019s all right<br \/>\nYou can\u2019t be forever blessed<br \/>\nStill, tomorrow\u2019s going to be another working day<br \/>\nAnd I\u2019m trying to get some rest<br \/>\nThat\u2019s all I\u2019m trying to get some rest&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Save one massive musical mistake this week (&#8220;country&#8221; singer, rhymes with &#8220;teeth&#8221;), Stephen Colbert had a good first week musically, capped off by Kendrick Lamar&#8217;s monstrously great performance on Wednesday. \u00a0And last night after some speculation (would it be\u00a0Vampire Weekend, Pavement, etc.?), Colbert brought out Paul Simon (and members of his touring band) to perform [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24641"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24650,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24641\/revisions\/24650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}