Paul Simon – The Paul Simon Songbook (1965/2004) [AcousticSounds FLAC 24bit/44,1kHz]

The Paul Simon Songbook is the first solo studio album by Paul Simon. It was recorded in London and released in the UK in 1965 and was supposedly deleted in 1969 at Simon’s request. The album was produced by Reginald Warburton and Stanley West as CBS Records LP 62579, and later remastered for Columbia/Legacy CD 90281.

brought into the London studios of British CBS and recorded this album with only his acoustic guitar for backup. The resulting album is spare, almost minimalist, as Simon runs through raw and unaffected versions of songs that he was known for in London, including “The Sounds of Silence,” “The Sun Is Burning,” “I Am a Rock,” “A Simple Desultory Philippic” (in its earliest form, and far nastier than the version later done by Simon & Garfunkel), and “Kathy’s Song.” The notes are very, very strange, but a bigger problem is the production by Reginald Warburton and Stanley West, which isn’t terribly sympathetic; the sound isn’t very natural, being very close and booming, but the album is a fascinating artifact of Simon’s work during the interregnum in Simon & Garfunkel’s career. And there is one fascinating number here, “The Side of a Hill,” which eventually resurfaced as the countermelody song in the Simon & Garfunkel version of “Scarborough Fair” (a song curious by its absence here, considering that Simon was doing it in his coffeehouse appearances) two years later.

Tracklist:
01 – I Am a Rock
02 – Leaves That Are Green
03 – A Church Is Burning
04 – April Come She Will
05 – The Sound of Silence
06 – A Most Peculiar Man
07 – He Was My Brother
08 – Kathy’s Song
09 – The Side of a Hill
10 – A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara’d Into Submission)
11 – Flowers Never Bend with the Rainfall
12 – Patterns
13 – I Am a Rock (Alternate Version) [Bonus Track]
14 – A Church Is Burning (Alternate Version) [Bonus Track]

Recorded at Levy’s Recording Studio in London in August 1965.

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