Can Call Me Al. The One is weakest when Simon gets too serious. Nguini and Kumalo's light touch is missing on The Teacher, a pedantic attempt at myth making. Over good percussion, Simon sings about being in a tribe, walking into the unknown and looking to a master for guidance. The One is stripped down and simplified, sometimes to the point there's not much to it.
Love is sweet but fairly pointless.
Pigs, Sheep and Wolves' fairy tale about a pig framing a wolf for murder is a well meaning allegory condemning the death penalty but Simon's cutesy delivery undermines its power. It starts with a banjo and, with good percussion and guitar, easily flows into different musical forms. The One ends strikingly with the stark Quiet. It's a little like Bridge Over Troubled Water but instead of offering to ease another's mind, Simon seeks release from his own stress. After the not bad, but commercially unsuccessful, doo wop flavored Capeman experiment, Simon is back on comfortable ground.