SEVEN PSALMS, by Paul Simon
Towards the end of Robert Hilburn’s chunky 2018 biography of Paul Simon, the singer-songwriter says his next project will be reworking and rerecording some of his lesser-known songs.
His friend, the artist Chuck Close, dismisses the idea: “He’ll never finish that album, it won’t be challenging enough.”
However, Simon – known go ahead despite being clearly doomed as an artistic and commercial failure – did finish that album, .
