The Paul Simon Songbook

by Paul Simon

The Paul Simon Songbook cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: August 1965
  • Label: CBS
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 38:40
  • Community rating: 3.88/5 from 5 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Recorded solo in London while Simon & Garfunkel were temporarily disbanded, this album features early acoustic renditions of several of their future hits. The stark, single-microphone production focuses entirely on Simon's intricate fingerpicking and literate, distinctly melancholic lyricism.

Genres

Descriptors: Folk, acoustic, death, minimalistic, male-vocals, folk, storytelling, unaccompanied-solo

Tracklist

  1. I Am a Rock (2:45)
  2. Leaves That Are Green (2:33)
  3. A Church Is Burning (3:26)
  4. April Come She Will (1:51)
  5. The Sound of Silence (3:09)
  6. A Most Peculiar Man (2:26)
  7. He Was My Brother (2:49)
  8. Kathy's Song (3:31)
  9. The Side of a Hill (2:20)
  10. A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara'd Into Submission) (2:21)
  11. Flowers Never Bend with the Rainfall (2:20)
  12. Patterns (3:05)
  13. I Am a Rock - Alternate Version (2:47)
  14. A Church Is Burning - Alternate Version (3:10)

Credits

  • Paul Simon - primary artist, sleeve notes, written-by
  • Verity Graphic Arts - design [cover]
  • David Lowe - photography by
  • Reginald Warburton - producer
  • Stanley West - producer
  • Art Garfunkel - sleeve notes
  • Judith Piepe - sleeve notes
  • Paul Kane - written-by

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