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The Paul Simon Songbook
Singer-Songwriter · 1965 · 12 tracks

The Paul Simon Songbook

Paul Simon

A single voice and one acoustic guitar recorded in London. These are the blueprints for Simon's greatest hits, stripped of pop artifice and heavy with solitude.

1965 · CBS/Sony

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A quiet, intellectual solitude that feels both fragile and deeply grounded.

Tracklist · 12 Tracks
01
I Am a Rock
02
Leaves That Are Green
03
A Church Is Burning
04
April Come She Will
05
The Sound of Silence
06
A Most Peculiar Man
07
He Was My Brother
08
Kathy’s Song
09
The Side of a Hill
10
A Simple Desultory Philippic (or How I Was Robert McNamara’d Into Submission)
11
Flowers Never Bend With the Rainfall
12
Patterns
Moments Worth Listening For
The stark, percussive snap of the guitar strings on 'I Am a Rock' highlighting the narrator's self-imposed isolation.
The hauntingly slow tempo of 'The Sound of Silence' which allows the lyrics to breathe without the later folk-rock overdubs.
The intricate, circular fingerpicking on 'Patterns' that sonically mimics the lyrical theme of a life trapped in routine.
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Where This Album DepartsEach spoke is a trait. The orange shape shows where this album pulls away from — or holds to — the rest of the artist’s catalogue. Tap for more.

How does The Paul Simon Songbook sound next to the rest of Paul Simon's catalogue?

Vulnerable+4.0σ

Vulnerable saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.

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