Artist	Song
Iron & Wine	Naked As We Came
from Our Endless Numbered Days (2004)
Vampire Weekend	Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa
from Vampire Weekend (2008)
Elliott Smith	Between the Bars
from Either/Or (1997)
Shawn Colvin	The Facts About Jimmy
from Polaroids: A Greatest Hits Collection (2004)
Dave Matthews Band	Ants Marching
from Under the Table and Dreaming (1994)
Harper Simon	Berkeley Girl
from Harper Simon (2009)
Aimee Mann	Save Me
from Magnolia (Music from the Motion Picture) (2009)
The Dream Academy	Life In a Northern Town
from The Dream Academy (2005)
Stephen Bishop	On and On
from 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Stephen Bishop (2002)
The Roches	Hammond Song
from The Roches (2010)
Suzanne Vega	Caramel
from Retrospective: The Best of Suzanne Vega (2003)
Melissa Manchester	Doing the Best
from Home to Myself (2008)
The Weepies	Keep It There
from Happiness (2003)
Edie Brickell	Waiting for Me
from Edie Brickell (2011)
The Ocean Blue	Past Future Perfect
from See (2006)

Comment:

Fifty years, a dozen GRAMMY® Awards . . . you'd better believe Paul Simon has left his mark all over the face of pop music. The Roches (two of whom guested on Simon's second solo album) carry an S&G-style flair for harmony to dizzyingly gorgeous heights on "Hammond Song." Iron & Wine, on the other hand, couples some folky fingerpicking with Simon's deceptively intimate lyrical dexterity in "Naked As We Came" from breakout album Our Endless Numbered Days. And when it comes to legacy, what better one can an artist leave than offspring groomed to carry on the family business, as son Harper Simon does in the lace-over-crinoline delicacy of "Berkeley Girl." From Melissa Manchester to Vampire Weekend, the most gifted, honored, and important artists of the past two generations owe Paul Simon a mighty debt.

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