Sounds of Silence [Remaster] by Simon & Garfunkel

Personnel includes: Paul Simon (vocals, guitar); Art Garfunkel (vocals). Producers include: Bob Johnston, Tom Wilson, Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel, Roy Halee. Reissue producer: Bob Irwin. Recorded between March 10, 1964 and July 8, 1970. Originally released on Columbia Records (9269). Includes liner notes by Bud Scoppa. Though it was their second album, SOUNDS OF SILENCE was the record that introduced Simon & Garfunkel to the world at large. When the original, acoustic version of the title tune (included on the debut album) was given a rock sheen here, courtesy of a hastily added electric backing track, folk-rock was invented, and Paul and Art were catapulted to superstardom. The songs here follow in that electrified direction for the most part, with the widescreen irony of "Blessed" buoyed by plangent guitar and drums, and the paranoid "Somewhere They Can't Find Me" pushed to neurotic extremes by an insistent rhythm section. SOUNDS OF SILENCE marked the introduction proper of Simon as sensitive song poet: ...