Year/Genre/City: 1968, Folk Rock, New York City, NY
Matrix #: KCS 9529
Condition: VG, sounds good; lots of very light marks

Cultural Facts:

Friend Break: The duo’s “childhood friends” story had a real cost—by this period, accounts from the era describe a working relationship strained by control issues and different ambitions, with the split basically already in motion.

Album Stitch: The record is famously assembled from different sessions and fragments; it’s often described as a carefully edited puzzle rather than one continuous band-in-a-room statement.

Studio Control: Paul Simon’s approach here reflects a shift toward meticulous authorship—arrangements, pacing, and sequencing treated like narrative craft, which also widened the gap between the two partners.

12/18/23 ob 2/17/2026 CC