Artist	Song
Art Garfunkel	A Heart In New York
from Playlist: The Very Best of Art Garfunkel (2010)
Bob Dylan	Simple Twist of Fate
from Blood On the Tracks (1984)
Leonard Cohen	Suzanne
from The Best of Leonard Cohen (1987)
Joni Mitchell	Big Yellow Taxi
from Dreamland (2004)
Van Morrison	Crazy Love
from Moondance (2007)
Gordon Lightfoot	The Last Time I Saw Her
from Gordon Lightfoot: The United Artists Collection (1993)
James Taylor	Mexico
from James Taylor: Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 (2009)
Carole King	So Far Away
from Tapestry (1998)
Randy Newman	Louisiana 1927
from Good Old Boys (2005)
Jackson Browne	Doctor My Eyes
from Jackson Browne (2008)
Paul McCartney	Another Day
from Wingspan: Hits and History (2010)
Billy Joel	Only the Good Die Young
from The Essential Billy Joel (2001)
Cat Stevens	Lady D'Arbanville
from Mona Bone Jakon (2000)
Carly Simon	That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be
from The Best of Carly Simon (2008)
Phoebe Snow	Poetry Man
from The Very Best of Phoebe Snow (2001)
Janis Ian	At Seventeen
from Between the Lines (1986)
John Sebastian	You're a Big Boy Now
from The Best of John Sebastian (2005)
Al Stewart	Bedsitter Images
from Al Stewart: Greatest Hits (2006)
Jackson C. Frank	Blues Run the Game
from Jackson C. Frank (2009)
Michael Franks	Popsicle Toes
from The Best of Michael Franks: A Backward Glance (2010)

Comment:

Paul Simon's emergence as a superstar ushered in a golden age of troubadours unparalleled in pop history; from Montreal to Memphis, from the Big Apple to Laurel Canyon, everybody was picking up a guitar. When it comes to acclaimed, admired — and imitated — rock poets, Leonard Cohen, like Simon, is at the top of everyone's short list, and in the macramé-and-crystal magnificence of Leonard's love song to "Suzanne," he makes it immediately clear why. Legendary pop songstress (and onetime college classmate) Carole King gets up-close and personal in the confessional intimacy of "So Far Away," from one of the era's must-have albums, Tapestry. And finally, we can't ignore his frequent partner Art Garfunkel, whose "All I Know" is shot through with Simon-isms, from Roy Halee's pop-perfect production to Art's heavenly harmonies. From former flatmate Al Stewart to Jackson C. Frank (whose best-known song Paul covered, and whose only album he produced), we've got all the singers, stars, bards, and balladeers, the virtuosos and the virtually unknown, who shared the stages and airwaves with rhymin' Simon.

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