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Related: About this forumWhenever I visit my ultra conservative one factory home town I think of this song
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Whenever I visit my ultra conservative one factory home town I think of this song (Original Post)
elmac
Nov 2018
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marybourg
(12,631 posts)1. Decidedly not autobiographical
for them. Maybe thats why it lacks a certain conviction that their other songs have.
Archae
(46,327 posts)2. The song reminds me of my life and the town I grew up in.
Small town, about 5,000 people.
C Moon
(12,213 posts)3. I'd always thought this was a Simon solo song. But was corrected recently.
Roy Rolling
(6,917 posts)4. Great Song
From the "Allentown" genre of dying factory towns that used to define the American Dream. Not autobiographical at all, but definitely they were good at these songs. The whole "Bookends" album is storytelling of Americana from two New York City boys.