"Bridge over Troubled Water"

Paul Simon

You won’t find me looking very far beyond the 1960’s in my selections here at Sometimes a Song, but that’s not to say —to borrow a line from Don McLean, if anyone remembers him — that I know the precise “day the music died.” I do know that this week’s songwriter, Paul Simon, was definitely keeping the music alive at least as late as the 1980’s, composi…