I’ve spent a bunch of Beatles Weekends now exploring the Brit pop explosion of the 60s but there was an equally significant movement happening at the same time on the other side of the pond.

I’m referring to folk rock, a genre influenced by The Beatles themselves to some degree but mostly typified in the music of Bob Dylan, The Byrds and the focus of this week’s theme, Simon & Garfunkel.

Early on, Simon & Garfunkel leaned more toward the “folk” side of folk rock, but over the course of their five albums they introduced a host of new sounds to their repertoire and created a legacy that resonates to this day.

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