Acoustic Songs

Forty songs from the singer-songwriter shelf, gathered for players who want to sit down and make music without wrestling with dense notation. The selection leans on the gentle, guitar-led classics of the sixties and seventies: Bob Dylan's Blowin' in the Wind, James Taylor's Fire and Rain, Simon and Garfunkel's The Sound of Silence, Cat Stevens's Wild World and the Beatles' Norwegian Wood and Yesterday, with room too for Queen's Crazy Little Thing Called Love and Eric Clapton's Tears in Heaven.

This is number 54 in Hal Leonard's long-running E-Z Play Today series, whose easy-to-read arrangements suit keyboard players who are starting out or returning after years away. It is a warm, sing-along collection for anyone who grew up with these records and would like to hear them under their own fingers.