Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel have been renowned for their exquisite harmonizing and production work in the studio, though live recordings have been rare up to this point. That is remedied by this recently unearthed concert from famed Lincoln Center in 1967 (not counting the reunion concert of 1981). Though the songs in this set predate the ambitious direction of subsequent releases of Bookends and Bridge Over Troubled Water, it offers great evidence that the duo were outstanding onstage with just their beautiful voices and an acoustic guitar running popular songs from the first album Wednesday Morning, 3AM up to Parsley Sage Rosemary, and Thyme: "He Was My Brother," "The Sounds of Silence," "I Am a Rock," "Homeward Bound," "The 59th Street Bridge Song," "A Hazy Shade of Winter, "The Dangling Conversation;" there are some older and rare songs including "A Church is Burning," "Benedictus," and "A Poem on the Underground Wall." The sound quality is pretty good for something that hasn't been available in 35 years, and the show epitomized Simon and Garfunkel as the spokesmen of the folk rock generation. |
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