November can feel like a threshold month. The light shifts, the days tighten, and the year starts to show its edges. Carly Simon has always known how to write inside that space — the part of life where you’re looking forward and backward at the same time. Her songs carry clarity without hurry, warmth without sugar. They make room.
So tonight we begin with her familiar ease. The songs that don’t rush you. The ones that offer a seat and say, stay as long as you need.
Anticipation (1971):
Legend in Your Own Time (1971):
Haven’t Got Time for the Pain (1974):
Jesse (1980):
The Right Thing to Do (1972):
This is an open thread
