The most successful folk-rock duo of the 1960s,
Paul Simon and
Art Garfunkel crafted
a series of memorable hit albums and singles featuring their choirboy
harmonies, ringing acoustic and electric guitars, and Simon's acute,
finely wrought songwriting. The pair always inhabited the more polished
end of the folk-rock spectrum and was sometimes criticized for a certain
collegiate sterility. Many also feel that Simon, as both a singer and
songwriter, didn't truly blossom until he began his own hugely
successful solo career in the 1970s. But the best of S&G's work can
stand among Simon's best material, and the duo did progress musically
over the course of their five albums, moving from basic folk-rock
productions into Latin rhythms and gospel-influenced arrangements that
foreshadowed Simon's eclecticism on his solo albums.
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