In the liner notes of Letters Never Sent, Carly Simon reveals that during her '93 spring cleaning she discovered a box of old, unmailed letters in her closet. "I set a handful of them to music," she explains, "adding a rhyme here, deleting a noun or verb there, and allowing the emotions to find comfortable rhythms." Simon hasn't completely abandoned parallel meter, rhyme schemes, or verse-chorus structure, but she has loosened their grip sufficiently to create a new kind of pop song which has the prose feel and specific focus of a personal letter. Not all these experiments work, but the best of them have the fresh air of something genuinely new. Simon is always quite lucid about who she is addressing-whether it's her mother, a new lover, or an ex-lover-and what she is saying.

TRACKLIST

1. (00:00:20) Carly Simon - Intro
2. (00:04:45) Carly Simon - Letters Never Sent
3. (00:04:52) Carly Simon - Lost In Your Love
4. (00:06:03) Carly Simon - Like A River
5. (00:00:45) Carly Simon - Time Works On All The Wild Young Men
6. (00:05:27) Carly Simon - Touched By The Sun
7. (00:03:42) Carly Simon - Davy
8. (00:04:34) Carly Simon - Halfway 'Round The World
9. (00:00:32) Carly Simon - What About A Holiday
10. (00:04:58) Carly Simon - The Reason
11. (00:04:37) Carly Simon - Private
12. (00:00:23) Carly Simon - Catch It Like A Fever
13. (00:05:00) Carly Simon - Born To Break My Heart
14. (00:05:43) Carly Simon - I'd Rather It Was You.