PAUL SIMON
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PAUL SIMON
Paul Simon is the second solo studio album by American singer-songwriter Paul Simon. It was released in January 1972, nearly two years after he split up with longtime musical partner Art Garfunkel. -Wikipedia
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Classic Rock Review
the first of several gems by this unique composer. You can say what you will about Simon, you can never call him unoriginal
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All Music
signaled that Simon was a versatile songwriter as well as an expressive singer with a much broader range of musical interests than he had previously demonstrated
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Robert Christgau
And the words! This is a professional tour of Manhattan for youth culture grads, complete with Bella Abzug, hard rain, and people who steal your chow fong. The self-production is economical and lively
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Only Solitaire
Paul is really a very thin and esoteric nature, and on each new listen you discover something that you're pretty sure wasn't there before - a delicate guitar twirl, a charming vocal harmony, or maybe a biting piece of lyric. Just keep listening.
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Mark's Record Reviews
In these 11 tracks alone, Paul presents his visions of reggae, acoustic guitar jazz, McCartney-esque swing pop, funk, salsa, acoustic folk blues (3x!), calliope carnival music, and New Orleans gumbo, with a mere sole single sorrowful track reminding us of what an emotionally evocative folk-rock duo Simon & Garfunkel could be.
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Aphoristic Album Reviews
Coming after the grandeur of Bridge Over Troubled Water, Paul Simon’s debut album was a stripped back affair, low key and personal. Simon’s experimenting with world music, like the early adoption of reggae on ‘Mother and Child Reunion’ and the Andean interludes of ‘Duncan’.
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