Friday, December 22, 2017

Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike, They've all come to look for America


Wikipedia - America (Simon & Garfunkel song)

Stephen Holden, in reviewing Simon & Garfunkel's Greatest Hits in 1972, wrote, "'America' ... was Simon's next major step forward. It is three and a half minutes of sheer brilliance, whose unforced narrative, alternating precise detail with sweeping observation evokes the panorama of restless, paved America and simultaneously illuminates a drama of shared loneliness on a bus trip with cosmic implications."

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