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Simon & Garfunkle Simon
& Garfunkle Website Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel both grew up in Kew Gardens, Queens, New York City. After becoming friends in middle school, the two started singing doo-wop in various groups. In 1955, the copyrighted their first composition, a song called "The Girl For Me." By 1957, they were local stars (at least amongst the high school crowd), and tried to take their musicianship to the next level and sell songs to the big publishing houses in Manhattan. A folk act from Queens, New York, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel looked like they were going nowhere after recording an unsuccessful all-acoustic debut album. When Dylan went electric a year later, they overdubbed some "rock" instruments onto their then-strongest offering - "Sound of Silence" - and it promptly became a hit. After years of struggling at the outskirts of the music industry, Simon jumped at the chance to sell out and proceeded to record four of the best pop records of the era. The duo was never a true rival to their British counterparts, the Beatles, but they still made a lot of memorable recordings and were a major force on both the singles and LP charts. It's too bad that Simon dumped his velvety-voiced tenor sidekick, and then proceeded to render himself irrelevant with a string of dull soft-rock records. But some of his 70s work is sophisticated and entertaining, and in the 80s he salvaged his reputation with a pair of excellent "world music" albums.
Shawn Phillips Shawn
Phillips Website His popularity reaches throughout the world, as attested by his quadruple-platinum status in South Africa, sell-out concerts across Quebec, Canada, and scores of fans still discovering music he recorded more than 25 years ago. Shawn's music reaches out to the core of humanity, bringing messages of peace and hope for a world united in love and understanding. Through his lyrics you can feel the joy and beauty he sees in all living things, and sense the anger and frustration of a man trying to cope with a society that is constantly moving toward self-destruction. Combined with his incredible vocal style, Shawn creates a musical experience that brings the listener to a new level of appreciation for the art, and for the world we live in. In recent
years, the ever-evolving Shawn Phillips has been composing classical-based
compositions on computer, creating pieces that would require over
130 live musicians. Shawn's belief is that classical music has the
power to "spiritually uplift us and elicit joy". One exceptional
composition, entitled 'Port of Entry', was written on the evening
that the Berlin Wall came down. Shawn occasionally performs these
pieces in concert with his portable computer and midi electronic
devices, while adding his full-range vocal accompaniment to the
arrangement as only Shawn can.
JAMES TAYLOR Taylor's career began in the mid-1960s, but he found his audience in the early 1970s, singing sensitive and gentle acoustic songs. He was part of a wave of soft singer-songwriters of the time that also included Carole King, Joni Mitchell, John Denver, Jackson Browne and Carly Simon (whom he later married). While living in New York City, Taylor became addicted to heroin. One night, after receiving a desperate phone call, his father (Dr. Isaac Taylor) drove to New York and "rescued" him. Later, Taylor wrote a song called "Jump Up Behind Me," that paid tribute to his father's help during a time of desperate need. The song also reflects on Taylor's memories of the long drive from New York back to his home in Chapel Hill. In 1968, Taylor moved to London. He was signed to Apple Records after sending a demo tape to Peter Asher (of Peter & Gordon) and released his debut album, James Taylor. The album did not sell very well and Taylor's addiction worsened. Moving back to the United States, Taylor checked into Austin Riggs Hospital in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, to try to break his drug problem. By 1969, he was well enough to perform live and had a six-night stand at the Troubadour Club in Los Angeles. On July 20, 1969, he performed at the Newport Folk Festival. Shortly after that, he broke both hands in a motorcycle accident on Martha's Vineyard and was forced to stop playing for several months. Once recovered, Taylor signed to Warner Bros. Records and moved to California, keeping Asher as his manager and record producer. His second album, Sweet Baby James, was a massive success, buoyed by the single "Fire and Rain", a song about his experience in an asylum and the suicide of a friend. The success of this single and the album piqued interest in Taylor's first album, James Taylor, bringing it and the single "Carolina in My Mind" back onto the charts. Always visibly
active in environmental and progressive causes, in October 2004
Taylor joined the "Vote for Change" tour, playing a series
of concerts in American swing states. These concerts were organized
by MoveOn.org with the general goal of mobilizing people to vote
for John Kerry and against George W. Bush in that year's Presidential
campaign. Taylor's appearances were joint performances with the
Dixie Chicks.
Something In the Way She Moves Something in the way she moves, or looks my way, or calls my name that seems to leave this troubled world behind. And if I'm feeling down and blue or troubled by some foolish game, she always seems to make me change my mind.. And I feel fine anytime she's around me now, she's around me now almost about all the time. And if I'm well you can tell she's been with me now. She's been with me now quite a long, long time and I feel fine. Every now and then the things I lean on lose their meaning and I find myself careening in places where I should not let me go. She has the power to go where no one else can find me and to silently remind me of the happiness and the good times that I know, and then I just got to go then. It isn't what she's got to say but how she thinks and where she's been. To me, the words are nice, the way they sound. I like to hear them best that way, it doesn't much matter what they mean. she says them mostly just to calm me down And I feel fine anytime she's around me now, she's around me now almost about all the time. And if I'm well you can tell she's been with me now. She's been with me now quite a long, long time and I feel fine.
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