There’s a need from time to time for a break from political topics, and what better way to step away if even momentarily with something hopeful about the future of music? It just so happens that this one is about one of America’s greatest storytellers with music–singer/songwriter Paul Simon.
He sat down with the Guardian for an interview, in which he talked about the journey he’s taken in his career since the 1960s, first as part of Simon & Garfunkel then as a solo artist, and the way a song or even a group of songs can sometimes appear out of nowhere. Simon said it happened earlier in his career, on familiar songs like “The Sound of Silence” “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” and the “Graceland” album.
A nice piece about the new Paul Simon documentary. The film calls Simon “the greatest songwriter in the history of American popular music”. Hyperbole, surely. Yet it’s an opinion I…
