Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water

Note to readers: it's currently Thanksgiving weekend, and i've lapsed in transferring these things over to the blog (but still posting daily to facebook). I'm going to just go back to binge posting these things in an attempt to catch up with myself. They are still in chronological order, even though i stopped documenting the actual day. I'm also going to stop searching out youtube links. You know how to find these things for yourself...

... and so, completely unintentionally, we round out week three with the last Simon and Garfunkel album: Like a Bridge Over Troubled Water.

I honestly didn't notice it until i had actually decided to write about this album, but there's a paul on days 7, 14, and 21. My subconscious works overtime, and the fact that my dad passed away on a monday (labor day) never even crossed my mind. Morbid, but completely coincidental.

It's also the last Simon and Garfunkel album, even though they didn't actually know it while it was happening.

Coincidences.

It's an album about Simon and Garfunkel, even though paul simon didn't necessarily intend it that way. It's all over the place, musically speaking. It's an album about absence, and friendship, and breaking away and coming home, and two people creating something much bigger than themselves. All those things are coincidental as well.

It has the first 16-track recording, made by manually synching two 8-track machines. It's been misinterpreted, and certain aspects of its making led Simon on his world music path.

More and more coincidences. The more i ramble on, the tighter the tapestry weaves itself.

One last coincidence: my friend Steven Stark 's singing voice sounds identical to Art Garfunkel's (not to single him out or anything, it's just fascinating to hear considering his penchant for Artie's later music).

Tomorrow is a new week and who knows what interesting things will happen. Cheers.

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