Sunday morning’s the best morning for Simon & Garfunkel… though I prefer to play them at night, in the dark. Though they’re rightfully inducted into the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame, the music biz’ mechanizations have sort of put the duo’s albums in the same folk package as Judy Collins or Carole King. No …
El Condor Pasa The Condor Passes from “Zarzuela El Condor Pasa” by Composer Daniel Alomia Robles. Written in 1913, according to Andean Folk Music from Peru… Performed by… Simon & Garfunkel Of course… Pass it on, like a baton, to EPB.
Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel had been officially broken up for more than ten years before reuniting for this 1981 concert in Central Park. The concert video was the first time I’d ever seen anyone play an Ovation guitar on stage. Simon’s use of the same instantly popularized that plasticene bowl-backed six-string, the distinctive strummed …
For me, it happened a couple of months ago. I was at a birthday for one of my daughter’s little playmates and the mother was lamenting a poor turnout. “I facebooked everyone just yesterday, and they had other things going on already,” she said. The very next day someone else mentioned facebooking about something. Talk …