We’re starting the new year by talking about friendship, that most human of institutions. Send your song recommendations to symposiumofsongs@gmail.com!
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Simon and Garfunkel, “Old Friends” (Bookends, 1968)
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4:17
Reading: Robert Hilburn, Paul Simon: A Life
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10:56
Neko Case, K.D. Lang, and Laura Veirs, “Best Kept Secret” (Case/Lang/Veirs, 2016)
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14:08
Big Star, “Thank You Friends” (3rd, 1978)
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17:09
The Beatles, “With a Little Help from My Friends”
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21:09
Reading: Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow
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22:55
Reading: Phil Madeira, God on the Rocks
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26:02
The Choir, “A Friend So Kind” (Burning Like the Midnight Sun, 2011)
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32:11
Bruce Cockburn, “Isn’t That What Friends Are For” (Breakfast in New Orleans, Dinner in Timbuktu, 1999)
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39:09
Dean Jones, “Side by Side by Side / What Would We Do Without You?” (Company OBCR, 1970)
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47:45
Billy Crystal and John Goodman, “If I Didn’t Have You” (Monsters Inc., 2001)
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53:03
LCD Soundsystem, “All My Friends” (Sound of Silver, 2007)
