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Bridge Over Troubled Water

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There are three aspects at work on this release, the first is their sound, and for the most part, due to the recording and production process, nearly every song has a weightless feel to it. The second is a more internal sense of melancholy and abandonment, where the duo seem to hold these aspects with reverence and devotion, as if in personally examining these songs, they might have been brought face to face, and glean a bit, in regards to what had gone so wrong with these two brothers of verse. While the third revolves around their surprising ability to finally connect with their audience, as if the house lights had been turned on, and they realized that they were not alone on the stage. Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge. It’s only in the last couple of songs that the album falls apart. “Bye Bye Love” I suppose is a nice song, but why a live version of a cover warrants inclusion here is a mystery. After the last of the audience is faded out, we reach “Song for the Asking“, again, a nice, but unmemorable number. At less than two minutes, it doesn’t last long enough to really register, and the album is over leaving the listener to ask “Is that it?”. A disappointing ending for both the album and for Simon and Garfunkel. As the sixties gave way to the seventies, many of its most celebrated bands and musicians broke up or died during the dawn of the new decade. By the end of 1970, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin were both dead, The Beatles had broken up, Diana Ross had left the Supremes, Lou Reed had left The Velvet Underground and Bob Dylan released the self-sabotaging Self Portrait. In the midst of all this, Simon and Garfunkel released this, their final album after it underwent a long and troubled genesis, then broke up shortly afterwards.

The main trouble with breakup albums is that there is no future for fans to look toward, meaning that albums of this nature often fall to the wayside … it even happened with The Beatles. I heard Paul speak on television about this album prior to its release, asking, or stating, ”What’s the point of making this album?” And that moved something within me to ask myself, if Simon’s not a fan, then what should I expect from my investment of time and money. To that end I put off exploring this outing for a very long time. Yes, there were some other issues in my life such as being in Vietnam, though with today’s ears, I’m more than pleased that after all this time I’ve finally given Bridge Over Troubled Water some space on my shelf, and some time on my turntable, allowing myself to get lost in a series of stories that are wholly about New York, in much the same manner as Springsteen or Dion. The breakup album. In a big way this is actually the transformation into the first Paul solo album. Yeah I know Art sings that lead/title song, but he was not even there much of the production time. To me as a songwriter, Bookends has Paul's best craft work composing. Bridge Over Troubled Water represents Paul Simon growing up musically & learning the hard way that he can do it all by himself and would be forced to. While this album has it's outstanding songs, obviously the Boxer and the title song, it's just slightly less consistent with the gems than Bookends. Still a great album and better produced by a mile.

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