The Paul Simon Songbook

by Paul Simon

The Paul Simon Songbook cover art

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

  • Contemporary Folk
  • Singer-Songwriter

Tracklist

  1. I Am a Rock
  2. Leaves That Are Green
  3. A Church Is Burning
  4. April Come She Will
  5. The Sound of Silence
  6. A Most Peculiar Man
  7. He Was My Brother
  8. Kathy's Song
  9. 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
  13. I Am a Rock - Alternate Version
  14. A Church Is Burning - Alternate Version