Simon & Garfunkel - Wednesday Morning 3 Am (Exp)

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Free Music Review: A sweet snapshot of a bygone era
Hit: 5 Stars

This is a really sweet acoustic folk album from a bygone era of idealism, folk-singing bards in Greenwich Village coffee shops, and sweeping social change. Even if only five songs on here are originals, it's still sweet soft music, the type you could lull a baby to sleep with. Two of the songs on here, "Sounds of Silence" and the title track, were later reworked for the SOS album; I don't really have a preference between the electric or acoustic version of "SOS," but I like "Wednesday Morning, 3 AM" over what later became "Somewhere They Can't Find Me." The genesis of that song is softer, gentler, and seems to emphasis how sad he is over having to leave his girlfriend, whereas "STCFM" focuses more on how he's committed a crime and has to escape before the police find him; there the part about having to leave the girlfriend seems more secondary and not as prominent.

My favourites on here are "Sparrow," the cover of the Dylan song "The Times They Are A-Changin,'" the gorgeous Latin Mass chant "Benedictus" (even if it is sung by two nice Jewish boys), the title track, "Bleecker Street," and "He Was My Brother." You just can't recapture this era in time, before folk music went electric and socially-conscious songs became largely a thing of the past.

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