Vinyl Record

Paul Simon - One-Trick Pony

Paul Simon - One-Trick Pony on LP vinyl. A 1980 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.

LP · 1980

Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.

Buyer notes: 1980 LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.

One-Trick Pony is Paul Simon's 1980 album tied to the film in which he played Jonah Levin, a working musician negotiating age, commerce, pride and compromised dreams. The record arrived after the 1970s run that had made Simon one of American pop's most decorated writers, but it deliberately narrows the frame from cultural authority to professional uncertainty. Late In The Evening gives the album its great burst of Latin-tinged momentum, with horns, percussion and memory turning childhood sound into adult release. The title track is slyer, a musician's self-portrait that can sound defensive, funny and bruised at the same time. Ace In The Hole and One-Trick Pony include live-band energy, while How The Heart Approaches What It Yearns and Nobody show the quieter ache underneath the movie-world premise. The album is sometimes treated as a soundtrack footnote, but it is really a transitional Simon record about performance as labor, persona and emotional survival.

One-Trick Pony matters because it catches Simon entering the 1980s through a film-and-album project about the costs of being a musician. It also gave him Late In The Evening, a major concert staple that points toward his continuing fascination with rhythm beyond folk-rock habits.

For collectors, One-Trick Pony is the overlooked Warner-era doorway before Hearts And Bones and Graceland. It is especially revealing for listeners interested in Simon's bandleading, his relationship to cinema and the way he writes about musicians from the inside.

Polished 1980 singer-songwriter pop with live-band swing, Latin percussion, jazz-inflected guitar and piano, reflective ballads and a film-world sense of road-worn professionalism.

Recommended for: Paul Simon collectors filling the Warner Bros. transition years; Fans of Late In The Evening and Simon's rhythm-driven writing; Listeners interested in albums connected to musician-centered films.

When was One-Trick Pony released? One-Trick Pony was released in 1980 alongside Paul Simon's film project of the same name. Is One-Trick Pony a soundtrack? It is closely tied to the film and is often discussed as a soundtrack/studio album hybrid, with some versions and songs differing between film and album. What is the best-known song from One-Trick Pony? Late In The Evening is the album's best-known song and became one of Simon's major live favourites.