Art Garfunkel Has New Album Duet Partner: His Son, Art Jr.
by Best Classic Bands Staff
Art Garfunkel and his son, Art Garfunkel Jr., have announced their first collaborative studio album. Father and Son, set to arrive on November 8, 2024, via BMG, is described in a press release as “a stunning covers album that features a selection of personal favorites from the last century.” The album is available for pre-order in the U.S. here and in the U.K. here. Listen to “Time After Time” and “Blue Moon” below.
According to the announcement: “‘Time After Time’ is one of my all-time favorites from the ’80s,” says Garfunkel Jr. about the new, orchestrated rendition of the hit, first released by Cyndi Lauper four decades ago. “It’s a song that fits perfectly on this album—because it also deals with our relationship, this unique bond between my father and me. From one generation to the next, it’s about time passing, about passing on the baton, but here we are working together in the studio…and thus begins the next cycle, as my father takes this exciting next step with me.”
Listen to father and son sing “Time After Time”
“It felt like a dream. It was simply quite wonderful. I love working with him,” adds Art Garfunkel, who will turn 83 the week the album arrives and who launched his career with Simon and Garfunkel in the late 1950s. “I like to say my son is a better singer than I am. I mean, I’m pretty good…but he is better.”
For the album, producer Felix Gauder (Pet Shop Boys, Jimmy Somerville) was joined by Italian string arranger Davide Rossi (Coldplay, Alicia Keys) and U.K. songwriter-producer Ash Howes (Kylie Minogue, Ellie Goulding). As they were finishing off the album, Garfunkel and Garfunkel booked another studio for a video shoot, which turned out to be the very studio where Cyndi Lauper recorded the original version of “Time After Time.”
Art Garfunkel (r.) and son Art Garfunkel Jr. (Photo by Stefan Falke, used with permission)
“This one is truly a father-son project, it’s all about this unique connection,” Art Jr. adds in the announcement. “We recorded a dozen of our most cherished songs. I brought more of the ’80s influences into the project, and my father brought more of the Great American Songbook, wonderful songs from the 1940s and so on. These two influences came together in a pretty exciting way. Overall, it’s definitely an expression of our bond.”
Further album highlights include songs by the Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel and Cat Stevens. The full track listing is below.
Watch the official trailer for the album
Related: Our Album Rewind of Simon and Garfunkel’s Bridge Over Troubled Water
Art Garfunkel Jr. was born in Manhattan in 1990, the first child of Kathryn and Art Garfunkel. Spending most of his childhood and youth in the United States, he often accompanied his father on tour even as a child. After moving to Berlin as a teenager, he toured extensively with his father in 2018 and 2019, followed by the release of his first two solo albums, Wie Du and Evergreen, which hit the top 10 and the top 15, respectively, in Germany.
Art Garfunkel launched his career in 1957 as one half of famed U.S. folk-rock duo Simon and Garfunkel (originally known as Tom and Jerry), founded with songwriter-singer Paul Simon. After the duo split up in 1970, Garfunkel not only landed solo hits (“Bright Eyes”), but also acted in various Hollywood films. Having shared stages with Paul Simon occasionally over the last decades (their 1981 Central Park performance in front of a 500,000-plus audience comes to mind), he’s recently been performing with his son, Art Garfunkel Jr.
Father and Son Track Listing
Blue Moon
Vincent
Blackbird
Old Friends
Time After Time
Once In a While
I Won’t Let You Down
Let It Be Me
Nature Boy
You Belong to Me
Here Comes the Rain Again
Father and Son
Watch Art Garfunkel and Art Jr. sing “Let It Be Me” in 2019
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3 Comments so far
Jump into a conversationVery nice. But a horrible album cover!
Have to agree with the album cover comment. A picture of the guys in the kitchen? And not a centered-in-the-kitchen shot. Maybe if the album had a food-related theme, and was named something like “Refrigerate After Opening”. Which would, yeah, still be REALLY odd.
They suddenly realized that they were in the same studio that Cyndi Lauper recorded the original version of “Time After Time”? Wow. What are the chances they didn’t know that ahead of time? ZERO. They must really believe most people are idiots.