Cecilia/ The Only Living Boy In New York

This is a beautiful copy of the duo's second big hit from their best and, sadly, final album, Bridge Over Troubled Water. It includes the picture sleeve that accompanied a relatively small number of copies... (How small? Well, in my 30-odd years of collecting, this is the first time I've seen the sleeve!) What the heck is that rhythm section doing, by the way? Anybody ever figure it out (without looking at the session notes)?

"Cecilia" was really the first recording that showed how much in love with complex rhythms Paul Simon was. Many of Simon's solo releases demonstrate that passion, starting with his first solo single, "Mother And Child Reunion," which was one of the first hits with a reggae/ska rhythm by someone not from Jamaica. But in particular I think of his great single Late In The Evening (from the failed album/movie, One Trick Pony), and his entire Graceland and Rhythm of the Saints albums.