The Boston Globe, March 29th, 1991
When Paul Simon wrote "But my words like silent raindrops fell" in 1965, did he have a concert performance in mind? Few artists' lyrics deserve to survive the arena's acoustic triathlon of air, rafter and applause more than those of Simon. His lines are the most delicately wrought and deceptively simple of any singer-songwriter on the charts today -- and have been since Simon and Garfunkel's anthemic "Sounds of Silence" planted its bleak vision in the country's collective brain. As a musical poet, Simon ranks with the most consistently literate of his generation, arguably Bob Dylan and Joni Mi...
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