Paul Simon on tour summer 2011

Setlist:
01. Crazy Love Vol. II
02. Dazzling Blue
03. 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
04. So Beautiful or So What
05. Slip Sliding Away
06. Afterlife
07. That Was Your Mother
08. Hearts and Bones
9. Mystery Train (song by Junior Parker and Sam Phillips)
10. Wheels  (song by Chet Atkins – both Mystery Train and Wheels were sung at the end of Hearts and Bones as one)
11. Love In Hard Times
12. Rewrite
13. Peace Like a River
14. The Obvious Child [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vmj-1HV2MoM ]
15. The Only Living Boy in New York
16. Love Is Eternal Sacred Light
17. Father and Daughter
18. Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes
19. Gumboots

Encore:
20. The Sound of Silence [  http://www.youtube.com/user/celester4000#p/a/u/0/tvngRsS0FVM ]
21. Kodachrome
22. Gone at Last

Encore 2:
23. Here Comes the Sun
(The Beatles cover)
24. Late In The Evening

 Review from The Seattle Time by Paul de Barros:

Paul Simon´s immaculate, inspiring, near-perfectly articulated two-hour concert at WaMu Theater on Friday, the opening salvo of his North American tour, was one for the ages.
At 69, Simon is still writing brilliant stuff — per his new album, ´So Beautiful or So What´ — even as he surveys a body of work that is the envy of any singer-songwriter.
Dressed in denim, green T and black overshirt with sleeves cut at the elbow, the diminutive, round-faced, silver-haired troubadour with the high, slightly melancholy voice coasted insouciantly over a delicious tangle of world rhythms created by a carefully-balanced eight-piece band.
The sold-out crowd greeted him with a standing ovation before he sang a note.
Simon projected the mood of an adult comfortable in his own shoes, enjoying the moment, looking back at life with sentiments both savory and skeptical and eagerly anticipating the future.
´Life is what you make of it,´ he sang with a shrug, in the title song of the new album. Its driving rhythm lifted the room to the first peak of many in an evening that began with a slightly cottony reserve but inexorably built to a climax with a slow burn.
Simon peppered the night with new work and old, dipping into ´The Sound of Silence´ (great Spanish guitar!) and ´Kodachrome,´ as well as Graceland favorite ´Diamonds on the Soles of her Shoes,´ which got the boomer fans (some, with their kids) up on their feet and dancing.
But the new songs, such as the Blake-like vision ´Love is Eternal Sacred Light´ and the Hoagy Carmichael-inflected ´Love and Hard Times,´ with their Big Subjects (cosmology, God) were more than welcome. Simon handled them with a remarkably light touch.
When someone shouted, ´We love you!´ Simon responded, ´I used to love me, too,´ suggesting, perhaps, that humility is the key.
The concert celebrated the 20th anniversary of Seattle radio station KMTT 103.7 The Mountain, which the singer cordially congratulated, dedicating the touching ´Father and Daughter´ to Mountain program director Dave Benson.
The years have frayed Simon´s voice a tad. He carefully avoided some high notes and occasionally strayed off pitch, though his casual abandon was worth the trade-off.
Simon was pulled back for two encores, ending a sumptuous night with ´Late in the Evening,´ a sweetly unabashed foray in nostalgia — for youth and young love.

 17/04/11- Showbox at The Market – Seattle, WAD

The Boy In The Bubble
Dazzling Blue
50 Ways To Leave Your Lover
So Beautiful Or So What
Vietnam->Mother And Child Reunion
The Afterlife
That Was Your Mother
Hearts And Bones->Mystery Train
Love And Hard Times
Rewrite
Peace Like A River
The Obvious Child
Getting Ready For Christmas Day
Crazy Love, Vol. II
Love Is Eternal Sacred Light
Father And Daughter
Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes
Gumboots 

Encore:

The Sound Of Silence
Kodachrome->Gone At Last
Here Comes The Sun
Late In The Evening 

2nd Encore:
still Crazy After All These Years