After fans got a hold of Simon & Garfunkel's first album, 1964's Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M., Paul Simon cemented himself as ...
Paul Simon wrote "The Sound of Silence" in 1964 as a young man talking to himself in the dark. It was only the sixth song he'd ever written. It only sold approximately 2,000 copies on first release ...
How many musical masterpieces have been censured by the United Nations? When Paul Simon’s Graceland was released in August ...
After a string of successful records came to an end, the songwriter was seeking fresh inspiration. He found it on a cassette tape ...
These folk lyrics have only gotten better with time. The decades have made the messages in these hits even more potent.
Ashley Kahn’s exhaustive new history revisits Paul Simon’s masterpiece, the South African musicians who made it possible and ...
The technical term for a misheard lyric or phrase is "mondegreen," and you can find plenty folk rock songs that you've ...
Ask any musician who’s produced a massive hit song and they’ll tell you about the pressure to replicate it with a follow-up. That burden is especially unique for someone like Kyle Gordon, a musician ...