Mother love bone

Click on the links for Part One, Part Two and Part Three of the interview. Is it fair to see the last three LPs of a piece? They seem to sit together as a sequence. Yeah I think what I found, funnily enough, is sometimes you get what you want when you stop trying to get it.

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The planet’s drollest songwriter shakes hands with his twentysomething self

The long-awaited return of Americana’s First Lady

First UK gig in over 20 years from the Felix and Oscar of dream-folk

It's an odd time to evaluate Paul Simon's solo career in light of his successful 2004 reunion tour with Art Garfunkel. But maybe all that boomer nostalgia needs a little levity, and the sweep of his solo work proves Simon has never dwelled on the past. The Studio Recordings 1972-2000 is that rare bird—an attempt to collect an artist's entire oeuvre.

Five-CD epitaph includes 64 never-before-heard tracks

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