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CARLY SIMON - Never Been Gone (2009)

Carly Simon's latest album isn't exactly a best of, although it features several of the songs previously collected in Simon's four other hits compilations. Nor is it a live album, yet it frequently sounds like one, thanks to the intimacy of the pared-back performances (you can even hear Simon giggle as she fluffs the beginning to It Happens Every Day). Its hybrid format allows Simon to revisit the songs of her youth in illuminating and poignant ways: a twentysomething's misgivings about marriage in That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be are imbued with weariness when delivered by a woman in her 60s; similarly, the clinging to hope in the face of marital breakdown expressed in Coming Around Again is more melancholy coming from someone twice divorced. On the downside, age has corroded Simon's voice, and there is an acoustic dourness to many of the new arrangements – except those, like You're So Vain, that try so hard to startle that they sound a bit crass.- guardian.co.uk

TRACKS: 01. The Right Thing To Do 02. It Happens Every Day 03. Never Been Gone 04. Boys In The Trees 05. Let The River Run 06. You're So Vain 07. You Belong To Me 08. No Freedom 09. That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be 10. Coming Around Again 11. Anticipation 12. Songbird