Chords for Carly Simon on Today (2008) Full-Interview!

In the world of music, few artists endure decades of success, but for more than 30 years, through all the ups and downs,
Carly Simon has kept her fans loyal, and she's picked up a lot of new ones along the way. _ _ _ _
_ _ Anticipation
With countless [D] hits to her name, singer-songwriter and music legend Carly Simon might best be described by [G] one of her [A] most famous songs.
[G] _ Nobody [Gm] does [D] it better
Her solo career exploded in [G] 1971, and it's hard to say if anyone has done it [A] better than she has.
[E] In 1973, she released a hit with just [B] a hint of mystery. _ _ _
To this day, the target of [Dbm] the song remains a secret.
[B]
The hits kept coming, [Abm] 16 original albums garnering [E] 16 Grammy nominations and two [Gb] wins.
_ [N] Guess where I am?
Oscars too, Carly won for 1988's [C] Let the River Run, the theme to Working Girl.
_ _ _ _ Simon's life hasn't always been easy, including a very public [Am] divorce from James [G] Taylor in the early 80s, and a [F] bout with breast cancer in the late [Dm] 90s.
She's even battled the fear of performing in [Bb] public.
But no challenge has kept her from [F] doing what she does best.
[Em] _ _ [C] Now at 62, Carly's done it again [B] with a new album and a new [Em] sound.
I forgot to [Gbm] forget.
_ [B] _ _ [Gm]
I love that cover.
[Gbm] Oh, you are hot.
Such a good cover.
[N] And you're styling today, Miss Carly.
I am styling.
I'm styling.
Now we made a.
Yes, you are.
You are rock star chic.
I bought except except for the Manolo Blanc Blanc shoes, which I had never bought before.
I never sort of bought into the sex in the city thing about Manolo Blanc because I have almost osteoporosis.
Not quite.
It's like that thing right under it.
Osteopenia.
Yeah.
And so so I'm I can't really wear high heels comfortably, but I love the way they look.
They look great on you.
Because you don't want to sit in.
You've walked enough.
How is this new album, by the way?
I just we just heard a little bit of it.
It sounds gorgeous.
Well, what am I going to say?
Say it.
You know, I listened to it the other day.
It's it's it's a departure in [E] some ways, but the Carly [G] voice is still there.
It's quite a bit of samba in there.
[B] Quite a bit of it's it's new themes for you, too, in some ways.
I [Am] know you tell us about it.
Well, it's [B] it's it's [E] got sort of [Gm] a couple of new themes.
One is that there's an element [D] of bossa nova [E]
and and samba in it.
[D] There you go.
Look at her.
She loves her own music.
She's like, when I play that [Ab] box, I really rock.
I really do.
But I it's and it also has four songs that deal with my children.
Two are about them and one is by Sally and the other is by Ben.
So there are four songs.
Both following in [N] their mom and dad's footsteps.
Yeah, they're just you know, I didn't want them to, but they did.
Did you try to talk them out of it or do you think the kids just just be able to decide?
I knew that the record business was going to change.
Look at them.
They're adorable.
Yeah, I knew that it was going to become much more populated and therefore you'd go into a record store
and there would be so many to choose from that you couldn't possibly single out,
you know, unless the owner of the store led you to their bin or or unless a record company really put you at the listening booth and said,
go there and listen to it or it was played in there.
And radio got less and less _ _ _ run by the DJ.
When it was DJ run, they really you knew who to who station to turn on to because you knew what their tastes were.
And they all had distinctive styles.
Like I remember when my records first came out, they [F] were on WNEW FM.
I love that station.
And there was Jonathan Schwartz and there was Roscoe and there was [D] hello.
_ _ _ [Gb] I asked my kids all the time ago, who is that?
Because nobody has the distinctive sound anymore.
You knew it was you.
You knew it was.
Just think about anybody from that era, really instantly.
But you do [F] on this record, too.
It's right away, you know, it's Carly.
Well, I think I think that I think that I my main luck [B] was being born with [B] a vocal box [Abm] and a [Ab] head cavity [B] that produced [Bbm] a certain [B] tone.
And so therefore, when you [Eb] turn on the record, you sort of know it's me, even though [E] sometimes I try to disguise [Eb] myself.
We wrapped [Bm] a little.
This is one of the songs [Abm] that's it's about [Gb] Sally and Ben.
[Bm] _ _ [Db] _ _ [E] _ Oh, look at the [Db] smile that says it's on.
Who do you call?
Who do you listen?
_ [E] _ _ Oh, look at the [Db] smile that says it's on.
Who do you call?
Who do you listen to?
[A] No one [N] for myself.
_ She has all my records.
Come on.
Did we make a mistake?
You have 30, 30 records.
Well, I've got altogether about 35.
But that that includes like the duets with Frank Sinatra.
That doesn't really you know, but I did a record with Posse to Domingo.
Those don't count.
But but then I did I did children's records with my sister and and I've done I've done soundtrack albums for films.
Yes.
About five of those.
And I worked for Winnie the Pooh for God's sake.
So we're on that same day.
My dad, we're all together.
I'm a Grammy nominated.
No, I'm not.
Oh, those are such fun little records.
And isn't it fun to do a departure like that, though, and just lose [Eb] yourself to a project like that?
Well, I did the whole score for for for two movies, the piglets great adventures and the Heffalump movie.
And it was so much fun.
It took me three years to do those.
I mean, [Fm] because the Japanese people will send you back these these [G] extremely animated things.
And you have to you have to [N] write the music that exactly corresponds with what they've already done.
That's not easy.
They won't change for you.
Mm hmm.
You got to change for them.
We don't want you to change.
Carly, we like just the way you think you can be with us.
And again, a new