Paul Simon gives away "Getting Ready For Christmas Day" for free!
The brilliant new festive single out now
"Getting Ready For Christmas Day" is the excellent new single from one of the world's best songwriters, Paul Simon.
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Out now on Hear Music via iTunes and available to download for free on paulsimon.com, the uptempo track features excerpts from the sermon 'Getting Ready for Christmas Day', recorded Oct. 1941 by the Reverend J. M. Gates with his congregation.
Produced by Phil Ramone and Paul Simon and with Paul Simon on vocals and electric guitar, the track also features Edie Brickell on harmony vocal, Vincent Nguini on rhythm guitar and Jim Oblon on drums.
From the forthcoming Paul Simon album 'So Beautiful Or So What', out April 2011, "Getting Ready For Christmas Day" is a Christmas treat you'll want to unwrap over and over again.
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"Paul Simon's Christmas single eschews the corny musical clichés of sleigh bells and choirs in favour of pursuing its own seasonal high spirit, riding on a shimmering bluesy acoustic guitar and foot stomping, hand clapping percussion" - The Telegraph
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