During last night's concert at the Kirkwood Performing Arts Center, singer Erin Bode said that when she taught a college class on lyric writing, she devoted considerable time to Paul Simon's lyrics, in part because "(the students) don't know who he is."
I felt not a day younger than 54 hearing that. I guess it shouldn't surprise me, but college students not knowing who Paul Simon is? Paul Simon of Simon & Garfunkel fame and enormously successful solo singer-songwriter acclaim? They haven't heard his music on a stream or on the radio?
I'm glad Bode set them straight. Thanks to her tutelage, maybe one of her students will compose the next "Bridge Over Troubled Water."
