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Surprise Surprise: Paul Simon

Bill DeMain, Performing Songwriter, September 2006

"THE TRUTH is flexible and complex," says Paul Simon. On the eleven songs that make up his latest album Surprise, the legendary songwriter sizes up the truth from every angle, stretching it, questioning it, cat-and-mousing it, marveling at it, then volleying it to listeners to reach their own conclusions.

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