I'm reading Art Garfunkel's new memoir, What Is It All but Luminous: Notes from an Underground Man (Knopf, 2017). When I saw this interview, I went down to the library to check it out. He has done some amazing work since his Simon and Garfunkel days, though he doesn't get quite the limelight that Paul Simon has received. I loved his ninth studio album, Everything Waits to be Noticed (2002). It was his debut as a songwriter and he has some marvelous sounds in this trio presentation along with singer-songwriters Maia Sharp and Buddy Mondlock.
Here is his interview on CBS This Morning, sitting around the table with the morning crew. He talks about his walks across America and Europe, and noting the beauty around him. “You are so entranced by the beauty of everything, you tear up. And in the blurry vision of tearing up, what is it all, but luminous?”
Thinking of Paul Simon's upcoming retirement, I found this interview from May 30, 2012. Wynton Marsalis interviews Paul Simon on CBS This Morning. What a find! Wynton Marsalis, talking to Paul Simon! The down side it that it is only six minutes long, but a nice segment with Simon talking about the inspiration for some of his songs. (Come back tomorrow for a more recent interview with Art Garfunkel).
My thanks to Dave Robison who shared this video on his blog, On the Road with Dave. I have fond memories of this song by Jimmy Buffett that was all over the airwaves when I was in college. Among other things, it made us Southerners feel good about not living in that "brown L.A. haze."
Radio was the music media in those days. MTV was still a few years away, and I don't think I was even aware of music videos being made at the time, but I enjoyed this look back at an old favorite.
